The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Felix Ehrenhaft

• Der andere Physiker: das Leben von Felix Ehrenhaft by Joseph Braunbeck [Vienna: Technisches Museum, 2003]
• Felix Ehrenhaft Discussion Thread [Physics Forums]
• Test for Change of Pole Strength of Permanent Magnet by J. E. Goldman [Physical Review 66, 94 (1944)]
• Felix Ehrenhaft, in Against Method by Paul Feyerabend [London: Verso, 1975, pp. 255 ff.] In Feyerabend's enormously influential attack on the rational foundations of science, his old teacher Ehrenhaft appears as a great hero, "a mountain of a man, full of vitality and unusual ideas," by whom "the difficulties of scientific rationality were made very clear".
• The Oil Drop Experiment: A Rational Reconstruction of the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Controversy and Its Implications for Chemistry Textbooks by Mansoor Niaz [Journal of Research in Science Teaching 37, 480 (2000)]
• An Appraisal of the Controversial Nature of the Oil Drop Experiment: Is Closure Possible? by Mansoor Niaz [British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56, 681 (2005)]
• Fragliche Teilchen: Felix Ehrenhafts Subelektron by Peter Heering and Andreas Makus [Physik in unserer Zeit 37, 296 (2006)]

• WORKS:
  • List of Publications of Dr. Felix Ehrenhaft by John Dodd [Felix Ehrenhaft Homepage]
  • Finding Aid to Papers of Felix Ehrenhaft [American Institute of Physics]

  • Statement concerning plans for work by Felix Ehrenhaft [Felix Ehrenhaft Homepage] An outline of his research as of October 1943.

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