Gerald Holton
Autor de Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Gerald Holton
Einstein, History, And Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science At The End Of The Twentieth Century (1995) 80 copias
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture (2008) — Editor — 30 copias
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
Obras relacionadas
Este libro le hara mas inteligente: Nuevos conceptos cientificos para mejorar su pensamiento (Spanish Edition) (2012) — Contribuidor — 796 copias
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contribuidor — 630 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Holton, Gerald
- Nombre legal
- Holton, Gerald James
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-05-23
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Germany (birth)
USA - País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Berlin, Germany
- Lugares de residencia
- Vienna, Austria
- Educación
- School of Technology, City of Oxford
Wesleyan University
Harvard - Ocupaciones
- professor (Harvard University ∙ physics ∙ history of physics)
physicist - Organizaciones
- Harvard University
- Premios y honores
- Oersted Medal (1980)
Jefferson Lecture (1981)
George Sarton Medal (1989)
Miembros
Reseñas
Einstein, history, and other passions : the… por 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."… (más)
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- Obras
- 56
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #42,598
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 55
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 1