Books:

• (ed.), Reader's Guide to the History of Science, London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000 (934 pages)
• Siemens UK plc, Sir William Siemens - A Man of Vision, Bracknell: Siemens UK plc & Caric Press, 1993
• Unpublished PhD-thesis: "The Commodification of Radiation: Radium and X-ray Standards, 1896-1928", University of Cambridge, 1994

Articles:

• "Beyond Truth: Pleasure of Nanofutures," in Joachim Schummer and Davis Baird, eds., Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society, London: World Scientific Publishing, 2006, 357-382
• "Liten sak har blivit stor hajp", Axess, No. 3, April 2006, 10-11, pdf-version
• "Awe and Nanotechnology", Medicinsk Museions Årsskrift, 2005, 20-29
• "Beyond truth: pleasure of nanofutures", Techné, vol. 8, number 3, Spring 2005
• "Nanotechnology and the negotiation of novelty", in Discovering the nanoscale, edited by Davis Baird et al, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 135-144
• "Geschlechterverhältnisse und rationalisierte Radiologie", in Rückblick nach vorn - 100 Jahre Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, edited by W. Bautz & Uwe Busch, Wuppertal: bap+, 2005
• "Nanotechnology and the negotiation of novelty", in Discovering the nanoscale, edited by Joachim Schummer & Alfred Nordmann, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004
• "The trials and promise of a webhistory of materials research", in Science and Industry in the 20th Century, Nobel Symposium 123, edited by Karl Grandin, Nina Worms, and Sven Widmalm, Canton, MA: Watson Publishing International
• "The Making of a Danish Kantian: Science and the New Civil Society", in Robert Brain (ed.), H. C. Oersted and the Romantic Legacy, Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming)
• (with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent) "Materials Science: A Field About to Explode?", Nature Materials, 3 (2004), Number 6, pp 345-347
• "Pursuing the history of materials research and its societal context", in IUMRS Facets, 2 (2003), No. 4, 23-26
• "A Brief History of X-rays", Endeavour, 26 (2002), 137-141; draft web-version
• "'The mutt historian:' The Perils and Opportunities of Doing History of Science On-Line", in Writing Modern Science, edited by Ron Doel & Thomas Söderqvist; forthcoming in late 2004 (web-version of first draft)
• "Niels Ryberg Finsen: Til kamp mod mørke og sygdom" (co-authored with Flemming Petersen), in Nabo til Nobel: Historien om tretten danske Nobelpriser, edited by Henry Nielsen & Keld Nielsen, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2001, 318-344
• "Science as public sphere: x-rays between spiritualism and physics", in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit in Berlin, 1870-1930, edited by Constantin Goschler, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, 89-126
• "Niels Ryberg Finsen" (co-authored with Flemming Petersen), in Neighbouring Nobel: The History of Thirteen Danish Nobel Prizes, edited by Henry Nielsen & Keld Nielsen, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2001, 393-429
• "Tempestas ex machina: Rutherford's discharge chamber and the meteorologists, c. 1900", in Radioactivity: History and Culture, 1896-1930s, edited by John Krige & Christine Blondel, Harwood Academic Publishers, forthcoming
• "Calibration and Work in the X-ray Economy, 1896-1928", Social Studies of Science, 30 (June 2000), 397-420
• "Rutherford's 1901 experiment on radiation energy and his creation of a stable detector", Archives for the History of the Exact Sciences, 54 (2000), 403-420
• "The spread of precision measurement in Scandinavia 1660-1800", in The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment, edited by Kostas Gavroglu, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999, 179-224
• "Hot Stuff" (summary of a talk given at the Chemical Heritage Foundation), Chemical Heritage - Newmagazine of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 16 (1998), 21
• "Luxemburg und sein Stadtmuseum - Die Inszenierung der Idylle", forum fir kritesch Informatioun iwer Politik, Kultur a Relioun, September 1998, 20-23
• "Appendix VIII: Additions and corrections to the second German edition of Origin", in Frederick Burkhardt et al (eds.), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10: 1862, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 714-722
• "No bans, please: a reply to Helge Kragh", VEST - Tidskrift för Vetenskapsstudier, 1997, 41-54
• "Geschlechterverhältnis und rationalisierte Röntgenologie", in Geschlechterverhältnisse in Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, edited by Christoph Meinel and Monika Renneberg, Bassum & Stuttgart: GNT-Verlag, 1996, 148-158
• "The origins of exact x-ray dosage", in Från moderna helgonkulter till självmord - Föredrag från Idé- och vetenskapshistorisk konferens 1995, edited by Thomas Kaiserfeld, Stockholm: KTH, 1995, 63-68
• "Die PTR und der Standard der Röntgenstrahlenintensität", in Emergence of modern physics, edited by Dieter Hoffmann, Fabio Bevilacqua, Roger H. Stuewer, Pavia: Università degli Studi di Pavia, 1996, 81-87
• "X-rays for medical use", in Physics Education, 30 (1995), 347-355

Reference work articles:

• in Dieter Hoffmann et al (eds.), Lexikon bedeutender Naturwissenschaftler und Techniker, (Oestrich-Winkel: science&more, forthcoming):
  • William Henry Bragg
  • William Lawrence Bragg
    
• in Arne Hessenbruch (ed.), Reader's Guide to the History of Science, London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000:
  • "Astronomy: general works", 49
  • "Brahe, Tycho", 103-105
  • "Cartography", 121-122
  • "Clocks", 141-142
  • "Denmark", 171-172
  • "Franklin, Benjamin", 266-267
  • "Gauss, Friedrich", 281-282
  • "History of Science: general works", 341-343
  • "Metrology", 477-480
  • "Oppenheimer, Robert", 532-533
  • "Ostwald, Wilhelm", 539-541
  • "Physical and Human Geography", 565-566
  • "Priestley, Joseph", 594-595
  • "Rational Mechanics" (with Simon Schaffer), 632-633
  • "Rittenhouse, David", 654-655
  • "Rockefeller Foundation" (with Carla Keirns), 655-656
  • "Standardization", 704-706
  • "Technology: general works" (with Henry Nielsen), 716-718
  • "Time", 726-728
• in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, edited by Kelly Boyd, London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999
  • "Heilbron, J. L.", 525-526
  • "Needham, Joseph", 867-8
• in Instruments of Science: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Bud, Stephen Johnston, and Deborah Warner, New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1998
  • Geissler Tube", 279-281
• in New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
  • Russ, Sidney (1879-1963)
  • Smith-Rose, Reginald Leslie (1894-1980)
  • Wimshurst, James (1832-1903)
• in Oxford Companion to the History of Science, edited by John Heilbron, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Cathode Ray Tube, 129-130
  • Metrology, 520-521

Reviews and review essays:

• Review of Johannes Abele, Wachhund des Atomzeitalters", in Technology & Culture (forthcoming)
• Review of Sean F. Johnston, A History of Light and Colour Measurement - Science in the Shadows", in Centaurus (forthcoming)
• Review of Lillian Hoddeson & Vicki Daitch, True Genius - The Life and Science of John Bardeen", for the British Journal for the History of Science (forthcoming)
• Review of G. I. Brown, Invisible Rays - A History of Radioactivity", in British Journal for the History of Science (forthcoming)
• "Review of Martin Lindner, Die Pathologie der Person - Friedrich Kraus' Neubestimmung des Organismus am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, in Isis (forthcoming)
• "Review of Widmalm, Vetenskapsbärarna, and Holmberg, Reaching for the Stars", in British Journal for the History of Science, September 2001, vol. 34, 366-369
• "Rutherford was a nice fellow: review of John Campbell, Rutherford - Scientist Supreme, Christchurch, New Zealand: AAS Publications, 1999", in Annals of Science, 59 (2002), 99-101
• "Review of John J. Wolfe, Brandy, Balloons, & Lamps: Ami Argand, 1750-1803", in Isis (forthcoming)
• "Review of Paul Bellaby, Sick from Work - The body in employment, Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate, 1999", Social History Society Bulletin, Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2000, 42-43
• "Probing historiographical boundaries: analyzing contexts employing specific narratives", review essay, British Journal for the History of Science, 32 (1999), 345-58
• "Review of Davis & Falconer, J. J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron", Social History of Medicine, 12 (1999), 344-5
• "Review of Adrienne Marcelin-Woltersdorf, Vom Quantenphysiker zum Dissidenten - Eine politische Biographie Fang Lizhis", in Physikalische Blätter, 53 (1997), 147
• "Credit and blame - a review of Ruth Sime's Lise Meitner", European Journal of Physics, 17 (1996), 371-2
• "Energy and Experts", essay review, Annals of Science, 53 (1996), 627-632
• "De-centering the history of science - a review of Svante Lindqvist, Center on the Periphery - Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics", in British Journal for the History of Science, (28) 1995, 246-7
• "Comments on the conference Emergence of modern physics in Berlin, in British Society for the History of Science Newsletter, June 1995
• "Wo Recht zu Unrecht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht - a review of Helmuth Albrecht (ed.), Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte", British Journal for the History of Science, 28 (1995), 362-364
• "Review of Desmond & Moore's Darwin", Darwin College Magazine, March 1992

Radio interviews:

• "Nanotechnologie und das Scanning Tunneling Microscope", interview Forschung Aktuell: Alles Nano oder was?, broadcast by the Deutschlandfunk, 24 November 2003 (link to Deutschlandfunk article about the program)
• "Röntgenstrahlen und Medizin", interview by Hellmuth Nordwig broadcast by the Deutschlandfunk in Studiozeit, 28 December 1995

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