Book ID: CBB001252431

Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis (2011)

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Forman, Paul (Author)
Carson, Cathryn L. (Author)
Kozhevnikov, Alexei B. (Author)
Trischler, Helmuth (Author)


Imperial College Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xvi + 542 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of the scientific profession in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis became famous for its demonstration of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular by showing the historical connection between the culture of Weimar Germany--known for its irrationality and antiscientism--and the emerging concept of quantum acausality. From the moment of its publication, Forman's research provoked intense historical and philosophical debates. In 2007, participants at an international conference in Vancouver, Canada, discussed the implications of the Forman thesis for contemporary historiography. Their contributions collected in this volume represent cutting-edge research on the history of the quantum revolution and of German science

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Review Camilleri, Kristian (2012) Review of "Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 794-796). unapi

Essay Review Seth, Suman (2013) Forman at Forty: New Perspectives on “Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics”. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 567-574). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seth, Suman
Eckert, Michael
Badino, Massimiliano
Carson, Cathryn L.
Dongen, Jeroen van
Goldstein, S.
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
European Physical Journal H
British Journal for the History of Science
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
History and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Clup-Clued
Springer
Springer International
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Science and culture
Historiography
Science and politics
Science and society
People
Forman, Paul
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Heilbron, John L.
Planck, Max
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
Bahr, Eva von
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Great Britain
Sweden
Institutions
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
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