The Second Physicist On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany ARCHIMEDES 1st edition by Christa Jungnickel 3319495658 9783319495651
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- ISBN 10: 3319495658
- ISBN 13: 9783319495651
- Author: Christa
This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planck are among the great German theoretical physicists whose work and career are examined in this book. Physics was then the only natural science in which theoretical work developed into a major teaching and research specialty in its own right. Readers will discover how German physicists arrived at a well-defined field of theoretical physics with well understood and generally accepted goals and needs. The authors explain the nature of the work of theoretical physics with many examples, taking care always to locate the research within the workplace. The book is a revised and shortened version of Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, a two-volume work by the same authors.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Toward a Characterization of Theoretical Physics in Germany
Chapter 2: Establishing Physics at the Universities
Chapter 3: German Physicists Before and Around 1830
Chapter 4: Promoting a New Physics: Earth Magnetism at Göttingen
Chapter 5: Reforms in Teaching University Physics: Development of the Seminar and the Laboratory in
Chapter 6: Physics Research in “Poggendorff´s Annalen´´ in the 1840s
Chapter 7: Connecting Laws: Careers and Theories in the 1840s
Chapter 8: Mathematicians and Physicists
Chapter 9: Kirchhoff, Clausius, Weber, and Connectedness
Chapter 10: Physical Research in the Annalen and Other Journals Around 1870
Chapter 11: Positions in Theoretical Physics
Chapter 12: Methods of Theoretical Physics
Chapter 13: Ordinary Professorships for Theoretical Physics
Chapter 14: Physical Research in the Annalen and in the Fortschritte
Chapter 15: Foundations and Connections
Chapter 16: Concluding Observations
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