Physics in Perspective最新文献

Novelty and Creativity in Physics 物理学中的新颖性和创造性

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00360-5

Christian Joas, Climério Silva Neto, Martin Speirs, Richard Staley

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Book Review: Dialectical Materialism and Quantum Physics: The Unpublished 1957 Lectures of David Bohm in Israel,published and commented by Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn 书评：《辩证唯物主义和量子物理学：1957年大卫·玻姆在以色列的未出版讲座》，Hanoch Gutfreund和j<s:1> rgen Renn出版并评论

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00355-2

Alexei Kojevnikov

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In Search of a New Historiography of the Telescope 寻找新的望远镜史学

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00353-4

Yaakov Zik, Giora Hon

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A Writer’s Universe: John Updike on Physics and Astronomy 作家的宇宙：约翰·厄普代克谈物理学和天文学

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00354-3

Helge Kragh

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Henri Poincaré’s Saint Louis Lecture of 1904: Publication, Dissemination, and Historiographical Implications 亨利·庞加莱1904年在圣路易斯的演讲：出版、传播和史学意义

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00356-1

Hector Giacomini

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The Young Physicist 年轻的物理学家

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00351-6

Christian Joas, Climério Silva Neto, Martin Speirs, Richard Staley

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The Physics, Travels, and Tribulations of Ronald Wilfrid Gurney 罗纳德·威尔弗里德·格尼的物理学、旅行和磨难

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00350-7

Brian Pollard, Saman Alavi

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Founding the First Scientific Laboratory in Russia: Mikhail Lomonosov’s Project 在俄罗斯建立第一个科学实验室：米哈伊尔·罗蒙诺索夫的计划

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-06-15 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00349-0

Robert P. Crease, Vladimir Shiltsev

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The Past of an Electron: Young Popper’s Gedankenexperiment Against the Indeterminacy Relations 电子的过去：杨·波普尔反对不确定关系的格丹肯实验

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-06-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00346-3

Marco Giovanelli

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The Newer Alchemy at via Panisperna: An Early Account of Nuclear Physics by Ginestra Amaldi and Laura Fermi 潘尼斯佩纳的新炼金术：对核物理的早期描述，作者：吉内斯特拉·阿马尔迪和劳拉·费米

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-026-00345-4

Adele La Rana

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