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The Spencer Weart Director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics, Gregory Good writes about the history of the earth sciences, especially geophysics. His current book project, “Herschel’s Planet,” looks at how John Herschel combined astronomy, physics, and chemistry in his investigations of geoprocesses and of Earth’s place in the solar system.
Kendall Milar is a doctoral candidate at University of California, Los Angeles, writing a dissertation on the context of Nikola Tesla’s work.
W. Bernard Carlson, "Review of Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius by Marc J. Seifer," Isis90 (1999), 138–139.
Aimee Slaughter is a historian of the physical sciences at the Los Alamos Historical Society. Her main research interests are in radioactivity and public perceptions of science.
My thanks to Mai Sugimoto at Kansai University for sharing her understanding of this historiography with me.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 16, 406–413 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-014-0144-6
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