Holton, G., Einstein, History, and Other Passions
Addison-Wesley, 1996; Harvard University Press, 2000

Part I, Learning from Einstein:
Einstein’s Influence on the Culture of Our Time; Einstein and the Goal of Science; Of Physics, Love and Other Passions: The Letters of Albert and Mileva; What, Precisely, Is ‘Thinking’?...Einstein’s Answer.

Part II, Science in History:
What Place for Science in Our Culture at the ‘End of the Modern Era’?; The Public Image of Science; ‘Doing One’s Damnedest’: The Evolution of Trust in Scientific Findings; Imagination in Science; Understanding the History of Science.

Part III, Personalities in Physics:
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Percy W. Bridgman, Physicist and Philosopher; I. I. Rabi, Citizen-Scientist; Feynman’s Adventures; Michael Polanyi and the History of Science; Part IV, Science for Students: How Can Science Courses Use the History of Science?; Faraday’s ‘Advice to a Lecturer,’ Updated.

Holton, G., Victory & Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others.
Harvard University Press, 2005

Part I, Scientists:
Einstein’s Third Paradise; The Woman in Einstein’s Shadow, and a First Glimpse of Einstein’s Mind at Work; Werner Heisenberg and Albert Einstein; Bohr, Heisenberg, and What Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen tries to Tell Us; Enrico Fermi and the Miracle of the Two Tables; B. F. Skinner, P. W. Bridgman, and the ‘Lost Years’; I. I. Rabi as Educator and Science Warrior.

Part II, Science in Context:
Paul Tillich, Albert Einstein, and the Quest for the Ultimate; Henri Poincaré, Marcel Duchamp, and Innovation in Science and Art; Perspectives on the Thematic Analysis of Scientific Thought; The Imperative for Basic Science that Serves National Needs; The Rise of Postmodernisms and the ‘End of Science’; Different Perceptions of ‘Good Science,’ and Their Effects on Careers of Women Scientists; ‘Only Connect’: Bridging the Institutionalized Gaps between the Humanities and Sciences in Teaching.

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