History and Philosophy of Physics
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.
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- 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)