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J.L. Heilbron

J.L. Heilbron is a professor of history and the vice chancellor, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley; he is also a research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.

Selected bibliography

  • The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy (editor) (2005)
  • Ernest Rutherford And the Explosion of Atoms (2003)
  • The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science (2000)
  • The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (1999)
  • Geometry Civilized: History, Culture and Technique (1997)
  • Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1992)
  • Elements of Early Modern Physics (1982)
  • Electricity in the 17th and 18th Century: Study of Early Modern Physics (1979)
  • H.G.J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915 (1974)

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