Gerald Holton

Datos Biográficos

ID3587151
NOMBREGerald Holton
NOMBRESGerald
APELLIDOHolton
FIRMAHOLTON G
AFILIACIONESHarvard University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS42
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1956
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H3

  • Farm Hall Transcripts Reconsidered

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschicht…2022Referencias: 1

    The Farm Hall Transcripts appeared to offer a unique opportunity for a study in the history and sociology of science. My request for access to the transcripts was initially denied, but later was allowed thanks to the intervention of British intellectuals. The recorded opinions of the interned German scientists indicate that initially they had attempted to produce a nuclear weapon, but later abandoned it. The record also traces their development o…

  • Philipp Frank and the Wiener Kreis

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEStudies in East European Thought2017

  • Our Puzzling Universe

    Gerald HoltonARTICLESocial research2016

    What is the world made of? From Antiquity to our day, philosophers and scientists have battled over this question, deploying vivid inventions of the imagination and, more recently, ominous speculations about the darkness of matter, energy, and black holes. Among these various thinkers, one primary debate has been whether the fundamental processes of physical nature are intuitively comprehensible or are inherently unimaginable

  • Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed

    Open AccessGerhard Sonnert, Gerald HoltonBOOKHelping Young Refugees and…2010

    In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as

  • George Sarton, HisIsis, and the Aftermath

    Gerald HoltonARTICLEIsis2009Citada por: 2Referencias: 12

    It is rare that a scholarly journal reaches its hundredth volume and also maintains its intellectual rank. Some explanations for the achievements of Isis suggest themselves. Two favorable circumstances were the timing of its founding, when there had grown up a small but critical mass of contributors and readers for such a journal, and that its founder was George Sarton, a person of wide‐ranging interests, passionate scholarship, and huge ambition…

  • Philipp Frank at Harvard University

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLESynthese2006Citada por: 1

  • Candor and Integrity in Science

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLESynthese2005Referencias: 6

  • Guest Editor's Introduction

    Gerald HoltonARTICLESocial research2005Citada por: 1

    Gerald Holton Guest Editor’s Introduction AT FIRST BLUSH, “SCIENCE” AND “ERROR” SEEM TO BE POLAR OPPOSITES— the one a heroic pursuit of provable and widely sharable truths, the other a miserable exemplar of human frailty. The very definition of the two terms mirrors that polarity, with the august OxfordEnglishDictionary declaring science to be “knowledge acquired by study; acquaintance with or mastery of any department of learning.” Error is defi…

  • Einstein's Third Paradise

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEDaedalus2003Citada por: 3

    L'A. demontre le profond sens religieux et la croyance religieuse d'Einstein a travers ses travaux scientifiques et ses ecrits

  • Ivory Bridges

    Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald HoltonBOOKIvory Bridges2002

    A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype, scientists occupy an ivory tower, isolated from other parts of society. To some extent this is true, and the resulting freedom to pursue curiosity-driven research has made possible extraordinary scientific advances. The spinoffs of "pure" science, however, have also had power…

  • The Making of Symphony Hall, Boston

    Gerald Holton, Richard Poate StebbinsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2001

  • Henri Poincaré, Marcel Duchamp and Innovation in Science and Art

    Gerald HoltonARTICLELeonardo2001Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    In the early years of the twentieth century, the striking scientific developments of the period included a great increase in popular and professional attention to non-Euclidean geometry. One of the leading scholars of the subject was Henri Poincaré, who was also a widely read theorist of the scientific discovery process, keenly concerned with the role of the intuition and the subconscious. His writings, and those of his interpreters, could well h…

  • "The Rise of Postmodernisms and the "End of Science

    Gerald James Holton, Gerald HoltonARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2000Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    Observant avec I. Berlin l'explosion de l'irrationnalisme a notre epoque, l'A. etudie l'evolution de la pensee postmoderne et interroge la fin de la science revendiquee par le mouvement romantique depuis la fin du XVIII e siecle. Examinant la rupture avec le monde ancien que constitue l'emergence de la science moderne au XVII e siecle, puis l'avenement de la Naturphilosophie avec Kant, l'A. met en evidence les manifestations contemporaines de cet…

  • Some Lessons from Living in the History of Science

    Gerald HoltonARTICLEIsis1999Citada por: 2

  • Einstein et les racines culturelles de la science moderne

    Gerald HoltonARTICLELe Débat1998

  • The new synthesis

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLESociety1998Referencias: 1

  • Gender Differences in Science Careers

    Linda Grant, Sierra L Grant et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Lumpers,” “splitters,” and scientific progress

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEAcademic Questions1995

  • Can science be at the centre of modern culture?

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1993

    Increasingly, such concepts as the `End of the Modern Era', the `End of Progress', and the `End of Objectivity' have been given public exposure, originating from parts of academe and from popularizers. Far from being merely a passing phase connected with the usual fin-de-siècle preoccupations, the movement appears to signal the resurgence of an old, recurring rebellion against Enlightenment-based presuppositions of Western civilization, particula…

  • The Laboratory of the Mind

    Gerald HoltonARTICLEIsis1993

  • How to think about the `anti-science' phenomenon

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1992

    Opposition to science as conventionally defined can take a great variety of forms, from interest in astrology to attacks on relativity theory, from false beliefs based on scientific illiteracy to support of Lysenkoism or Creationism. Which of these are relatively negligible, and which are potentially dangerous? What do these symptoms of disaffection with the Enlightenment-based tradition portend, for science and culture in our time? Here I presen…

  • Ernst Mach and the Fortunes of Positivism in America

    Gerald HoltonARTICLEIsis1992Citada por: 9Referencias: 2

  • Einstein in Spain

    Gerald Holton, Thomas F GlickARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • Einstein in Spain

    Gerald HoltonARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 179 Discovering is sprinkled with errors and debatable assertations. Examples of the former are: Bell Telephone Laboratory scientists before the AT&T breakup did not have almost complete research freedom (p. 12); it is Donald, not William, Beaver (p. 40); to denigrate U.S. education, Root-Bernstein asserts (p. 43) that most U.S. Nobel prize winners were trained overseas, but a count for physics discloses only n…

  • Acceptance

    Open AccessGerald HoltonARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values1990