Gerald Holton

male
science teacher, Journal editor, Bates College alumni, Mallinckrodt, History Teacher, Historian of science…New York Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, AmericanInstituteofPhysics, American, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. As a student of...
Owen Gingerich

Owen Gingerich

male, 79 years old
Member of ISSR, American Mennonites, Harvard University, Mennonites, Mennonite writer, Templeton Foundation…International Academy of the History of Science, American Scientific Affiliation, Historian of science, american philosophical society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Owen Gingerich is professor for astronomy and the history of astronomy at Harvard University; in 1992-93 he chaired Harvard's History of Science...
Eric Chaisson

Eric Chaisson

male
Harvard University, Space Telescope Science Institute, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory, Milky Way galaxy, Big History…epic of evolution, AmericanInstituteofPhysics, American
Eric Chaisson , a cosmologist and head of the Wright Center, notes that the world around us is literally changing all the time. From galaxies and...

Jeff Schmidt

male, 63 years old
physicist, writer, Science writer, Magazine editor, American, AmericanInstituteofPhysics…Physics Today
Jeff Schmidt is a physicist who wrote "Disciplined Minds"., a critique of the socialization and training of professionals. Schmidt was fired from...
Alvin M. Weinberg

Alvin M. Weinberg

male, deceased (2006)
physicist, April 20, 1915, October 18, 2006, Alvin Martin Weinberg, oak ridge national laboratory, Nuclear physicist…American, American Nuclear Society, AmericanInstituteofPhysics, University of Chicago, director of ORNL
Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 - October 18, 2006) was a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He...

Martin J. Klein

male
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, M. J. Klein, AmericanInstituteofPhysics, American Physical Society, American, Yale University faculty…physics, Historian of science
Martin J. Klein (M. J. Klein), a science historian of 19th and 20th century physics, is the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of History of Physics...
W. Patrick McCray

W. Patrick McCray

male
University of Pittsburgh, Operation Moonwatch, societal implications of nanotechnology, telescopes, University of California, Santa Barbara, Gemini Observatory…AmericanInstituteofPhysics, University of Arizona
W. Patrick McCray (b. 1967) is a historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He researches, writes about, and teaches the history of...