#  Gerald Holton 

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 email <holton@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

#### Selected Books (full-text access):

- Holton, Gerald James, The scientific imagination: case studies. Cambridge, \[Eng.\] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. \[440 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:19365131> <https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23975376>
- Holton, Gerald James, Thematic origins of scientific thought: Kepler to Einstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973; revised ed. 1988. \[520 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:19365132>
- Holton, Gerald James, Science and anti-science. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. \[232 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:19365133>
- Holton, Gerald James, The advancement of science, and its burdens: with a new introduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998. \[402 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:19365134>
- Holton, Gerald James, Einstein, history, and other passions: the rebellion against science at the end of the twentieth century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. \[256 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:19365135>
- Holton, Gerald James, Victory and vexation in science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. \[229 pages\] <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32676360>

 [All books and essays available on **DASH**](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/person/1eafe52c-7a95-4183-b84f-a7641b286431) (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard).

#### [CV](https://prod-hos.drupalsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/hos/files/gerald_holton_bio.pdf)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
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