Книга: Gerald Holton «The Advancement of Science&Its Burdens»

The Advancement of Science&Its Burdens

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

The Advancement of Science&Its Burdens ISBN:9780674005303

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (1998)

ISBN: 9780674005303

Gerald Holton

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. As a student of Percy Williams Bridgman, he obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1948 and his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1941. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists. Along with co-author Gerhard Sonnert he has studied and published works on the gender gap in science studies and careers.

Gerald Holton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is founding editor of the quarterly journal Daedalus, and founder of Science, Society, & Human Values. He was also on the editorial committee of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Professor Holton has received the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics, and the Abraham Pais Prize of the American Physical Society.

External links

* [http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/holton.html Prof. Holton's Harvard page] (Harvard University)

Источник: Gerald Holton

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