Physics Department Faculty:
Gerald Holton
Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physicsand Research Professor of the History of Science
PhD 1948, Harvard University
Gerald Holton obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists.
Selected Publications:
With Gerhard Sonnert:
- Scientific Imagination (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
- Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein (Harvard Univ. Press, 1973; rev. ed., 1988).
- Co-author, The Project Physics Course (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, 1981).
- The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986; rev. ed., Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
- Co-editor, Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Princeton Univ. Press, 1982; Dover, 1997).
- Science and Anti-Science (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993).
- Einstein, History, and Other Passions (Addison-Wesley,
1996; Harvard University Press, 2000).
click here for table of contents. - Physics, The Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (with S. G. Brush, Rutgers University Press, 2001).
- Understanding Physics (with D. Cassidy and J. Rutherford, Springer-Verlag New York, 2002).
- Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others. (Harvard Univ. Press, 2005). click here for table of contents.
- The Art of Scientific Investigation (2008)
- Co-editor, Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art and MOdern Culture (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008).
With Gerhard Sonnert:
- What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution? ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society (MIT Press, 2002),
- Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995),
- Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995).