Histoire et Philosophie de la Physique
Taking the opportunity of a new SPS section devoted to history of physics, we are starting a series of regular contributions featuring various aspects of the history of our discipline. We want to address as much the evolution of research, the shaping of its underlying ideas and the personal trajectories of its protagonists, as the institutional and social changes that exerted influence on physics and physicists in Switzerland and abroad.
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
- Joseph Fourier and Sadi Carnot: a counterpoint in 19th century study of heat (22)
- SOHO – the ESA / NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory: Part I: Overview, a Window into the Solar Interior, and SOHO’s Instruments (21)
- SOHO – the ESA / NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory: Part II: The Corona, Coronal Holes and the Solar Wind (23)
- What states are: an appraisal from recent history (20)
- Fundamental research for the development of gravitational wave detectors in Germany (19)
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
- Le modèle atomique de Bohr: origines, contexte et postérité (9)
- On the Einstein-Grossmann Collaboration 100 Years ago (8)
- Des décisions politiques aux conséquences scientifiques - La stratégie des augmentations d’énergie dans les dernières années du LEP (7)
- Fritz Zwicky: An Extraordinary Astrophysicist (6)