The Net Advance of Physics:

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

History Section Editor: Karen Rae Keck

HISTORY OF PHYSICS: General Collections

• AIP History of Physics Links Page
• CERN Historical Archives
• Risorse Internet per la Storia della Fisica: (C. Lamberti, Univ. of Pisa)
• David Banach's Philosophy of Science Homepage: (Particularly strong on ancient science and mathematics) St. Anselm College.
• Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (AIP)
• Paths of Physics: (Includes material on the history of physics in Italy.) University of Pavia.
• Historical Heritage of the Brera Observatory, Milan. (Homepage maintained by the History of Physics Group of the Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, with links to archives, instrument collection, etc.)
• Early Scientific Instrument Collection at the University of Naples (In Italian; text-only version in English available)
• The Physics Museum at the University of Queensland
• Time Line of Science, Mathematics, and Technology (readable in TEX, DVI, and ASCII files) [Niel Brandt]

HISTORY OF PHYSICS: Fields of Physics and Famous Experiments

• Asteroseismology

• Astronomy

• Astrophysics

• Atomic Theory

• Biophysics

• Black Holes

• Bose Condensation

• Chaos Theory

• Clifford Algebra

• Colliders

• Cosmic Microwave Background

• Cosmology

• Dark Matter

• Electromagnetism

• "Fifth Force" Controversy

• Fundamental Constants, Standards, and Time-Keeping

• Game Theory

• General Relativity

• Giant Magneto-resistance

• Gravitation

• High Energy Physics

• Human Thermodynamics

• Hyperspace and Kaluza-Klein Theories

• Knot Theory

• The Manhattan Project

• Mathematical Methods

• Maxwell's Demon

• Michelson-Morley Experiment:

• Nuclear Armaments

• Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Physics

• Numerical Methods

• Particle Physics

• Particles: Neutrinos

• Polymer Science

• Pulsars

• Quantum Computing

• Quantum Electronics

• Quantum Field Theory

• Quantum Mechanics

• Quarks

• Radar

• Statistical and Thermal Physics

• Stern-Gerlach Experiment

• String Theory

• Superfluids

• Supergravity

• Telescopes

• Transit of Venus

• Variable Stars

• Weak Interaction

HISTORY OF PHYSICS: Countries

• Physics in Australia to 1945, by the University of Melbourne and the National Centre for Australian Studies, 1990
• Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India, by S. Kak, 99/03:
• Indian Scientists a brief history of science since Indian independence in 1947 [Indianchild.com]
• Indian Scientists [Searchindia.com]
• Historical Outline of La Brera Observatory in Milan [Brera Astronomical Museum]

HISTORY OF PHYSICS: Collections of Biographies

• Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography [Wolfram Research]
• Indian Physicists [Wikipedia]
• Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics, by Nina Byers et al. [UCLA]
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians, by students at Agnes Scott College
• 4000 Years of Women in Science [University of Alabama]
• The Greatest Women in Science History [USA People Search]
• Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities by Leonard S. Taylor of the University of Maryland
• The Scientists of the Manhattan Project [The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association]
• Biographies of Atomic Scientists [The Atomic Archive]
• A Picture Gallery of Famous Physicists (arranged alphabetically)[Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil]
• Pictures of Famous Physicists (arranged in various ways) [University of Frankfurt, Germany]
• Collections about Prize Winners:
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics the official site of the Nobel Foundation
  • Nobel Prizes Internet Archive: an unofficial site with information on the prizes and prize-winners.
  • Nobel Laureates in Physics K. Sutton [SLAC]
  • Bruce Medalists in Astronomy, compiled by Joseph Tenn

HISTORY OF PHYSICS: Individual Biographies (alphabetical)

• Maria Gætano Agnesi

• Richard Hinckley Allen

• Ralph Alpher

• Luis Alvarez

• E. Anastassakis

• M. von Ardenne

• Jean-Robert Argand

• Aristotle

• Hertha Ayrton

• Kenneth Bainbridge

• Benjamin Banneker

• John Bell

• S. J. Bell Burnell

• F. Berezin

• Hans Bethe

• George David Birkhoff

• P.M.S. Blackett

• Louis-Auguste Blanqui

• Felix Bloch

• D. Bohm

• A. Bohr

• N. Bohr

• M. Born

• T. Brahe

• L. de Broglie

• Robert Brown

• Giordano Bruno

• A. Cameron

• Annie Jump Cannon

• G. Cantor

• M. L. Cartwright

• H. Casimir

• Giovanni Cassini

• J. Chadwick

• J. Challis

• Émilie du Châtelet

• Chladni

• Christopher Clavius

• N. D. Conklin

• Copernicus

• E. Creutz

• E. Cunningham

• Marie Curie

• Pierre Curie

• Heber D. Curtis

• Richard Henry Dalitz

• Charles Galton Darwin

• Raymond Davis

• Augustus De Morgan

• Max Delbrück

• Thomas Dick

• Robert Dicke

• Dirac

• Paul Drude

• Eddington

• F. Ehrenhaft

• Einstein

• U. Fano

• P. T. Farnsworth

• Fermi

• N. M. Ferrers

• Albert Fert

• Joan Feynman

• Feynman

• M. E. Fisher

• Flammarion

• J. Flamsteed

• Wilhelmina Fleming

• B. Franklin

• O. Frisch

• Galileo

• George Gamow

• Cecilia Payne Gaspochkin

• H. Geiger

• W. Gilbert

• Kurt Gödel

• H. Grassman

• Peter Gruenberg

• O. Hahn

• Asaph & Angeline Hall

• Thomas Harriot

• Harvard Computers

• W. R. Hamilton

• Stephen Hawking

• Heisenberg

• Joseph Henry

• Grete Hermann

• Caroline Herschel

• John Herschel

• William Herschel

• Heinrich Hertz

• J. Hevelius

• David Hilbert

• E. D. Hoffleit

• 't Hooft

• Jeremiah Horrocks

• G. M. Hopper

• Hoyle

• Edwin Hubble

• Hypatia of Alexandria

• J. Stuart Jackson

• A. F. Ioffe

• Robert Jastrow

• James Jeans

• C. J. Joly

• Theodor Kaluza

• P. L. Kapitza

• Oskar Klein

• M. Koshiba

• S. Kovalevskaya

• N. A. Kozyrev

• K. S. Krishnan

• V. Kuznetsov

• J. Kwiecinski

• J. L. Lagrange

• Willis Lamb

• C. Lanczos

• L. D. Landau

• LaPlace

• E. O. Lawrence

• H. Leavitt

• Leibniz

• Leonardo

• E. M. Lifshitz

• M. V. Lomonosov

• E. N. Lorenz

• Bernard Lovell

• Lucretius

• Ernst Mach

• Ettore Majorana

• Arthur Mangin

• M. Marinov

• Nevil Maskelyne

• Antonia Maury

• James Clerk Maxwell

• M. Goeppert Mayer

• Robert Millikan

• E. A. Milne

• H. Minkowski

• Maria Mitchell

• Philip Morrison

• Newton

• I. Noddack

• E. Noether

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• L. O'Raifeartaigh

• Orion

• B. Paczynski

• W. H. K. Panofsky

• J. van Paradijs

• Pauli

• E. Pickering

• Pickering's Harem

• Planck

• Ilya Prigogine

• I. I. Rabi

• S. Ramanujan

• G.-A. Pons Rayet

• Rayleigh

• Osborne Reynolds

• Olaf Roemer

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• Vera Rubin

• Ernest Rutherford

• Andrei Sakharov

• Abdus Salam

• Joël Scherck

• Karl Schwartschild

• Julian Schwinger

• Glenn Seaborg

• Emilio Segré

• Robert Serber

• Harlow Shapley

• Wm. Robertson Smith

• Marian Smoluchowski

• M. Somerville

• Sonia Stanciu

• E. C. G. Stueckelberg

• Szilard

• Olga Taussky-Todd

• E. Teller

• Tesla

• Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

• S. Ulam

• Harold Urey

• Martinus Veltmann

• John von Neumann

• Karl Weierstraß

• V. Weisskopf

• F. W. Wiener

• Norbert Wiener

• Wigner

• The Witch of Agnesi

• Robert R. Wilson

• F. Y. Wu

• Rosalyn Yalow

• Herbert York

• Fritz Zwicky

PHYSICISTS' MEMOIRS:

• Gravity and the Tenacious Scalar Field, by Carl H. Brans, 97/05:
• Gauge Theory and Renormalization (memoir), by G. 't Hooft, 94/10
• My Encounters -- as a Physicist -- with Mathematics, by R. Jackiw, 94/10
• Reminiscences about Many Pitfalls and Some Successes of QFT Within the Last Three Decades, by B. Schroer, 94/10
• The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, text file or pdf file

DIVERSIONS AND CURIOSITIES:

• Physicists on the Money by Edward F. Redish [University of Maryland]
  List of scientists with small images honored on currency throughout the world; links to larger images (some front and back) of the money.
• Physics-Related Stamps Joachim Reinhardt [University of Frankfurt]
• Sci-Philately: A Selective History of Science on Stamps (stamps sorted by subject) [University of Buffalo]
• An Armory of Famous Scientists by François R. Velde [Johns Hopkins University]
  Descriptions (but no pictures) of the coats of arms of famous scientists.
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project [North Dakota State University]
• Strange Cases from the Files of Astronomical Sociology by Kevin Krisciunas [Notre Dame University]
  Curious anecdotes about famous astronomers. Who was the astronomer fired in 1712 for drunkness and hanging out with a hussy?
• Physics Songs Collected by Walter F. Smith [Haverford College]
• Giordano Bruno [Lovely Music Catalog] Brief biography and list of songs that allude to Bruno
• Color Me Physics (brief bios and links to PDF coloring book pages of famous physicists) Physics Central [APS]

To contribute to this page, write to Karen Rae Keck