Gerald Holton

Gerald Holton ( * 1922 in Berlin) is an American historian of science German - Austrian descent.

Holton grew up in Vienna and emigrated to the USA in 1938. He studied at the City of Oxford School of Technology, Wesleyan University and Harvard University physics, where he received his doctorate in Percy Williams Bridgman 1948. He is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

His research interests are high-pressure physics and history of science, especially the history of the theory of relativity and Albert Einstein. He was on the editorial committee of the collected works of Einstein at Princeton University Press.

Holton is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was president of the History of Science Society and vice president of the International History of Science Society. Holton was also in the UNESCO Commission of the United States. He was co-founder and editor of the journal Daedalus and of Science, Society and Human Values ​​.

Holton was awarded the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics and the Abraham Pais Prize of the American Physical Society and the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He also received the JD Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science. He was Herbert Spencer Lecturer at Oxford University.

Works

  • Introduction to concepts and theories in physical science. Addison -Wesley Press, Cambridge, Mass.. 1952, 2nd edition with Stephen Brush 1973, 3rd edition as "Physics - the human adventure. From Copernicus to Einstein and beyond ", Rutgers University Press 2001
  • Thematic analysis of science. The physics of Einstein and his time. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-07893-3 (English original: Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Harvard University Press 1973, 1988, collection of essays ).
  • Einstein, history, and other passions: the rebellion against science at the end of the 20th century. Americ. Institute of Physics Press, Woodbury, NY 1995, Addison-Wesley 1996
  • Science and anti -science, Harvard University Press, 1993 ( Eng.:. Science and anti-science Springer, Berlin, Vienna [ua ] 2000).
  • The Scientific Imagination - case studies, Cambridge University Press 1978, Harvard University Press 1998
  • Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Others, Harvard University Press 2005
  • Gerhard Sonnert: Gender differences in Scientific Careers, Rutgers University Press 1995
  • With Sonnert: Who Succeeds in science? The gender dimension, Rutgers University Press 1995
  • Persecution What happened to the children who fled Nazi, Macmillan, 2006: with Sonnert?
  • James Rutherford, David C. Cassidy: Understanding physics, Springer 2002
  • Advancement of science, and its burdens, Harvard University Press 1998
  • Publisher: Science and the modern mind - a symposium, Boston, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1958
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