Gerald Holton
Autore di Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
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Born in Berlin, Germany, Gerald Holton received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1946. Shortly afterward, he launched into what has become a major part of his career---directing a well-known program that originally was developed to teach physical science to liberal arts majors at mostra altro Harvard. This program, called Harvard Project Physics, became the model for an ambitious program to teach physics in a similar historical manner in colleges and high schools throughout the United States. Later, Holton used this model in a somewhat different manner, establishing a program for the public understanding of science that eventually grew into a journal, Science, Technology and Human Values. For many years, Holton was a coeditor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also gained recognition as a biographer of Albert Einstein, and he has worked tirelessly to demonstrate that science requires as much creative imagination as do the arts and humanities. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Gerald Holton
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture (2008) — A cura di — 30 copie
The Thematic Component in Scientific Thought: Origins of Relativity Theory and Other Essays (The Graduate Journal,… (1973) 1 copia
La lezione di Einstein 1 copia
Project Physics Resource Book 1 copia
Scienza e cultura oggi 1 copia
Scources of Quatum Mechanics 1 copia
A imaginação científica 1 copia
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 798 copie
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Collaboratore — 630 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Holton, Gerald
- Nome legale
- Holton, Gerald James
- Data di nascita
- 1922-05-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Germany (birth)
USA - Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Berlin, Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Vienna, Austria
- Istruzione
- School of Technology, City of Oxford
Wesleyan University
Harvard - Attività lavorative
- professor (Harvard University ∙ physics ∙ history of physics)
physicist - Organizzazioni
- Harvard University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Oersted Medal (1980)
Jefferson Lecture (1981)
George Sarton Medal (1989)
Utenti
Recensioni
Einstein, history, and other passions : the… di Gerald James Holton
"Gerald Holton uses his life and work of our century's greatest scientist to warn against today's gathering Romantic rebellion, one in which soience is blamed for all our social ills, and in which reason is being replaced by New Age "ways of knowing".Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, the author shows hoe the best science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of the Western civilization. Wide-ranging and forceful, This book is a must reading for anyone interested in the place of science in our world."… (altro)
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Realism in 17th Century Dutch Painting
Child and the World Richard Hofstadter
Language and Politics in India Paul Friederich
Hypothesis in Late Medieval...Physics Benjamin Nelson
Philip Frans and his Philosophy of Science
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
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- Lingue
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