Groups

Physical Sciences

The Working Group on the History of the Physical Science meets monthly to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.  Meetings are usually held at the Center from 6:00 to 7:30 on first Tuesdays.

If you would like to join this working group please contact or at the Center.

Upcoming Meetings

October 1, 2013

TBA

November 5, 2013

TBA

December 3, 2013

TBA

Past Meetings

May 11, 2013

Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences

April 2, 2013

Jeffery Womack introduced his draft Ethics of Uncertainty: Medicine, the Roentgen Ray, and the Erythema Dose

March 5, 2013

Ann Robinson introduced a dissertation chapter, Not Like Minerva From the Head of Jupiter: The Foundation and Discovery of the Periodic Law, 1860-1869

February 5, 2013

Richard Staley introduced his Trajectories in the history and historiography of physics in the twentieth century

December 4, 2012

Joe Martin introduced his draft dissertation chapter A Good Name and Great Riches: Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics, and the Seeds of Solid State’s Fracture

November 6, 2012

Ari Gross introduced his Pictures and Pedagogy: The Role of Diagrams in Feynman’s Early Lectures, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 43 (3). pp. 184-94. 2012.

October 2, 2012

Ann Robinson introduced Elements of the Table: Visual Discourse and the Preperiodic Representation of Chemical Classification by Benjamin R. Cohen, Configurations 12 (2004): 41-75