... transition. 12 His methods soon began to spread and were put to use by geographically disparate researchers. Recent scholarship in the history of physics and mathematics has underscored the importance of pedagogy and informal social networks, and these themes are also present in the story of how Wilson’s...

... is part of a special issue entitled “Revealing the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project.” pedagogy nuclear engineering training reactors University of Michigan © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 DAVID P. D. MUNNS* Teaching in a Swimming Pool: The Ford Nuclear Reactor...

... peaceful atom scientific diplomacy pedagogy JOSEPH D. MARTIN, GISELA MATEOS, DAVID P. D. MUNNS, AND EDNA SUA´REZ-DI´AZ* Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix ABSTRACT This special issue, Revealing the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, highlights...

... organic chemistry artificial intelligence method pedagogy computing LHASA E. J. Corey EVAN HEPLER-SMITH* A Way of Thinking Backwards Computing and Method in Synthetic Organic Chemistry ABSTRACT This article addresses the history of how chemists designed syntheses of complex molecules during...

... orthodox narratives pedagogy consensus omission JOSE´ G. PERILLA´N* Quantum Narratives and the Power of Rhetorical Omission: An Early History of the Pilot Wave Interpretation of Quantum Theory ABSTRACT John S. Bell openly questioned the dominance of an orthodox quantum interpretation that had...

... of the making of physics as a discipline, which consider the canonical role of textbooks in disciplinary formation beyond the Kuhnian paradigm. KEY WORDS: nineteenth century, physics, discipline, unification, France, England, textbooks, pedagogy . . . historians who have aimed to write the history...

... the tight integration of the contexts of research and pedagogy in the period investigated (1962–66). Diagrams circulated rapidly between research talks and publications and the pedagogical context of summer school lectures for advanced graduate students. Further reception and circulation of the diagrams...