Author · 1934 – 2023

J. L. Heilbron

American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy.

Works

Electricity in the 17th & 18th Centuries
1979
mooseley H. G. J. Moseley
1974
Astronomie et églises
1999
The dilemmas of an upright man
1986
Lawrence and his laboratory
1981
Galileo
2010
Elements of early modern physics
1982
The Oxford companion to the history of modern science
2003
The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy
2004
Ernest Rutherford
2003
Historical studies in the theory of atomic structure
1981
Love, literature, and the quantum atom : Niels Bohr's 1913 trilogy revisited
2013
An inventory of published letters to and from physicists, 1900-1950
1982
Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitive Science Around 1800 (Berkeley Papers in History of Science)
1993
Geometry civilized
1998
Physics at the Royal Society during Newton's presidency
1983
The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century
1990
Max Planck. Ein Leben für die Wissenschaft 1858 - 1947
1988
Literature on the history of physics in the 20th century
1981
Incomparable Monsignor
2022
History of Physics
2018
A history of the problem of atomic structure from the discovery of the electron to the beginning of quantum mechanics.
1965
Quantum Drama
2024
Jean-Andre Deluc
2011
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences (Physics Circa 1900, Annual Volume 5)
1975
Ghost of Galileo
2021
Advancements of learning
2007
Physics
2015
Planck, 1858-1947
1987
Niels Bohr
2020
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