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History Newsletter CENTER for HISTORY of PHYSICS&NIELS BOHR LIBRARY & ARCHIVES Vol History Newsletter CENTER FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS&NIELS BOHR LIBRARY & ARCHIVES Vol. 42, No. 2 • Winter 2010–2011 Science Beyond Borders: Geophysicists Meet in South America AIP’s Center for History of Physics discuss many aspects of international for tackling complex geo-problems. Director Greg Good traveled to Foz do collaboration. Among the twelve speak- Other speakers included Brazilian Iguaçu, Brazil earlier this year to take part ers were Jack Hess (Geological Society of graduate students in the history of in the Meeting of the Americas (August America), Pat Leahy (American Geological physics from the Federal University of 8–12), joining more than 2,000 scientists Institute), and Greg Good (AIP). Bahia. One of these students, Indianara from around the world to learn about Silva, based her talk on materials she recent developments in geophysics. The Jack Hess discussed the complexity and found in the Niels Bohr Library & conference was cosponsored by the successes of the recent International Archives while conducting research American Geophysical supported by a grant-in- Union (AGU) as well as aid from the Center for many Latin American History of Physics. scientific organizations and governments. Also this fall, Greg Good presented his research at In July 1949, Physics Today the Niels Bohr Institute published an article by in Copenhagen, the Bart J. Bok on the United Science Studies Unit at Nations Educational, Aarhus University (both Scientific and Cultural in Denmark) and at Organization (UNESCO) Oslo University, Norway. and international coll- While there he met with aboration in science. more young historians of Today, more than 60 science. years later, international collaboration among The Center for History of scientists is ongoing. But it is not on Year of Planet Earth, with its effects Physics sees its cultivation of international autopilot. in countries everywhere. The results activity as essential to its mission, and will go to UNESCO with policy recognizes the special importance of The recent Meeting of the Americas recommendations later this year. Pat encouraging the rising generation of beamed a bright spotlight on this Leahy argued that collaboration among historians of physics in Brazil, Europe, issue, dedicating a special session to divergent scientific societies is needed China, and elsewhere. ■ In this issue... Science Beyond Borders: Geophysicists Meet in South America ...... 1 Grants-in-Aid Awarded in Spring 2010 ....................................... 11 Center for History of Physics to Sponsor International Conference Oral History Interview Update ................................................ 12 For Early-Career Historians of Physical Science ..................... 2 Please Help Us Contact ......................................................... 12 The Niels Bohr Archive is Placing Collections on its Website ........... 3 Documentation Preserved: New Collections ............................. 13 News From the Center for History of Physics ............................... 5 Documentation Preserved: New Finding Aids ............................ 17 History of Physics and History of Science Recent Publications of Interest ............................................... 19 in Brazilian Universities ................................................... 6 Niels Bohr Library & Archives Report on Internship at the Center for History of Physics ............... 8 2010 Book Donations ..................................................... 21 Recent Additions to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives ................... 9 Cover Photo: Dr. Greg Good (center) with historians at Campinas, Brazil. Credit: photo Grant-in-Aid Program Special Description for 2011 ...................... 11 courtesy of Dr. Greg Good. AIP Member Societies: The American Physical Society • The Optical Society of America • The Acoustical Society of America • The Society of Rheology • The American Association of Physics Teachers American Crystallographic Association • American Astronomical Society • American Association of Physicists in Medicine • AVS The Science and Technology Society • American Geophysical Union Center for History of Physics to Sponsor International Conference For Early-Career Historians of Physical Science The Center for History of Physics is • Disciplines and Communities—includ- Preference will be given to abstracts that pleased to host an international confer- ing issues of disciplinary identity, and demonstrate how the proposed presen- ence for graduate students and early how the development and interactions tation addresses the conference theme career scholars, to be held July 28 – July of scientific communities affected scien- and one or more of the conference sub- 31, 2011 in Washington, DC, on the tific discourse; and, themes. theme: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Physical Sciences Since the Enlight- • Transfer and Transformation of Knowl- All paper proposals should be e-mailed enment. edge—including issues of how knowledge as an attachment in a single document of natural phenomena is disseminated and (in .pdf, .docx, or .doc format) to Amy The goal of this conference is to fos- transformed within and across cultures. Fisher at [email protected]. The submis- ter communication and collaboration sion deadline is January 15, 2011 at 5:00 amongst junior scholars in the history We welcome submissions, including p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time. of the physical sciences. It provides an works-in-progress, from all areas of the opportunity for graduate students and physical sciences—including, but not Successful applicants will be notified scholars to discuss their work and ex- limited to, physics, astronomy, chemistry, by early March that their abstracts have change views on current issues in the geology, and space sciences—related to been accepted. history and historiography of the field. these themes. The conference will also provide an op- Conference Organizers: portunity for junior scholars to interact Presentations should be 20–25 minutes in Amy Fisher, Center for History of Physics, with invited senior scholars. length. Paper proposals should include American Institute of Physics the following: Fábio Freitas, Universidade The central theme of continuity and Federal da Bahia discontinuity is organized around three • Your name Anna Holterhoff, Max-Planck-Institut sub-themes relevant to contemporary • E-mail address für Wissenschaftsgeschichte historiographical concerns: • Institutional affiliation Christian Joas, Max-Planck-Institut für • Presentation title Wissenschaftsgeschichte • Theory and Practice—including con- • Presentation abstract (250 words max.) Joseph D. Martin, University of ceptual tools and frameworks, experi- • A short biography, indicating where Minnesota mental methods, laboratory practices, you are in your studies and/or career (250 Ann E. Robinson, University of instrumentation, and their relations; words max.). Massachusetts, Amherst Pierre Teissier, Centre François Viète, Univer- sité de Nantes Xiaodong Yin, Capital Normal University Planning for the Con- tinuity and Disconti- nuity Conference is also supported by: The Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics), DPG FV History of Physics, and the Com- mission for the Histo- ry of Modern Physics (IUHPS/DHS). The conference web site is http://www.aip. org/history/events/ conference2011 2 History Newsletter | Winter 2010–2011 www.aip.org/history The Niels Bohr Archive is Placing Collections on Its Website By Finn Aaserud, Director, Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark As some readers may have observed al- able to researchers in practice? This was ment level—proved a real challenge. ready, the Niels Bohr Archive (NBA) has a puzzle that troubled us for a long time, With the help of computer experts at the made a good start at making information while our small staff was also occupied NBI, I was able to reeducate myself in about its collections, and even some of with other matters, such as complet- programming, and after several months the collections themselves, available on ing the Niels Bohr Collected Works. In the majority of our already existing the internet. The work is still in progress, early 2007 my old friend Joe Anderson catalogues was imported into Archon. but just for this reason it may be useful at the AIP Center for History of Phys- As a consequence, a user can now at this point to share some of the lessons ics alerted us to the existence of the ar- easily search and move around in and learned and to receive feedback from our chives software Archon, freely available across catalogues. users in order to make improvements. from the University of Illinois. However, it took another year and a half just to be Fortunately, Archon allows linkage to The story begins in the spring of 2003, able to install the software, a process digital documents outside the software when the Danish State accepted the which proved to require extensive as- itself, and we were thus able to link from NBA’s application for a pilot project. The sistance from the infrastructure of our the document level of the catalogues purpose was, first, to make the in-house host institution, the Niels Bohr Institute to each archival document. Unlike the catalogues of our archival collections— (NBI). Nor was learning how to find catalogues, however, the archival docu- which existed in various formats, both on one’s way around in the software, once ments are generally restricted. Any per- paper and as computer files—available to installed, a trivial matter. In
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