Shaul Katzir
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaul Katzir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaul |
| FAMILY NAME | Katzir |
| SIGNATURE | KATZIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4634-0070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Shaping of Interwar Physics by Technology
Argument Concentrating on the important developments of quantum physics, historians have overlooked other significant forces that shaped interwar physics, like that of technology. Based on the case of piezoelectricity, I argue that interests of users of technics (i.e. devices of methods) channeled research in physics into particular fields and questions relevant for industrial companies and governmental agencies. To recognize the effects of such …
Introduction
Historians, philosophers, and physicists portray the 1920s and 1930s as a period of major theoretical breakthrough in physics, quantum mechanics, which led to the expansion of physics into the core of the atom and the growth and strengthening of the discipline. These important developments in scientific inquiry into the micro-world and light have turned historical attention away from other significant historical processes and from other equally i…
Technological entrepreneurship from patenting to commercializing
Only a few late nineteenth and early twentieth century academic physicists sought to develop, produce and market technical inventions. This paper examines a few pre-World War I scientists from the German speaking world who committed to ‘full blown entrepreneurship’ and compares them to others who invented and patented but did not pursue a business enterprise. It shows that the turn to entrepreneurship required a combination of intellectual, techn…
Time Standards for the Twentieth Century
Previous articleNext article FreeTime Standards for the Twentieth Century: Telecommunication, Physics, and the Quartz Clock*Shaul KatzirShaul KatzirTel Aviv University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreScene 1: a full-screen clock, its second hand approaching six o’clock. Dozens of workers r…
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology“History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 16–20 August 2015 Shaul Katzir (bio), Christopher Neumaier (bio), M. Luísa Sousa (bio), and David Zimmerman (bio) The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took pl…
Scientific Practice for Technology
In 1880 Hermann Aron, a lecturer in physics at Berlin University, invented a high capacity lead storage battery, i.e. an electrochemical cell that could store and release considerably higher amounts of electric energy than earlier accumulators. At the time, the storage rechargeable battery promised to play an important role within the rapidly developing system of electric power, which attracted more attention than any other contemporary technolog…
Who knew piezoelectricity? Rutherford and Langevin on submarine detection and the invention of sonar
During World War I, submarine detection presented a strategic technological challenge, which inspired, among others, the invention of new methods and the employment of a hitherto unused scientific phenomenon. Two prominent physicists, Ernest Rutherford and Paul Langevin, independently suggested the use of this phenomenon: piezoelectricity. Yet they employed it in different ways, leading Rutherford to a useful, if limited, measuring device and Lan…
Analogy, extension, and novelty
War and Peacetime Research on the Road to Crystal Frequency Control
Crystal frequency control, an essential ingredient in the electronics revolution, was invented in the aftermath of World War I by Walter Cady. Cady exploited his thorough knowledge of a scientific phenomenon called piezoelectricity, on which he gathered expertise during a wartime crash program in submarine detection, the first technological application of the phenomenon. With armistice Cady, a university professor of physics, could change his foc…
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity
Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development. The beginnings of piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how these diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they sha…
Measuring constants of nature
War and Peacetime Research on the Road to Crystal Frequency Control
Crystal frequency control, an essential ingredient in the electronics revolution, was invented in the aftermath of World War I by Walter Cady. Cady exploited his thorough knowledge of a scientific phenomenon called piezoelectricity, on which he gathered expertise during a wartime crash program in submarine detection, the first technological application of the phenomenon. With armistice Cady, a university professor of physics, could change his foc…
Measuring constants of nature
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity
The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity
Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development. The beginnings of piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how these diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they sha…
War and Peacetime Research on the Road to Crystal Frequency Control
Crystal frequency control, an essential ingredient in the electronics revolution, was invented in the aftermath of World War I by Walter Cady. Cady exploited his thorough knowledge of a scientific phenomenon called piezoelectricity, on which he gathered expertise during a wartime crash program in submarine detection, the first technological application of the phenomenon. With armistice Cady, a university professor of physics, could change his foc…
Analogy, extension, and novelty
Who knew piezoelectricity? Rutherford and Langevin on submarine detection and the invention of sonar
During World War I, submarine detection presented a strategic technological challenge, which inspired, among others, the invention of new methods and the employment of a hitherto unused scientific phenomenon. Two prominent physicists, Ernest Rutherford and Paul Langevin, independently suggested the use of this phenomenon: piezoelectricity. Yet they employed it in different ways, leading Rutherford to a useful, if limited, measuring device and Lan…
Scientific Practice for Technology
In 1880 Hermann Aron, a lecturer in physics at Berlin University, invented a high capacity lead storage battery, i.e. an electrochemical cell that could store and release considerably higher amounts of electric energy than earlier accumulators. At the time, the storage rechargeable battery promised to play an important role within the rapidly developing system of electric power, which attracted more attention than any other contemporary technolog…
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology“History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 16–20 August 2015 Shaul Katzir (bio), Christopher Neumaier (bio), M. Luísa Sousa (bio), and David Zimmerman (bio) The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took pl…
Technological entrepreneurship from patenting to commercializing
Only a few late nineteenth and early twentieth century academic physicists sought to develop, produce and market technical inventions. This paper examines a few pre-World War I scientists from the German speaking world who committed to ‘full blown entrepreneurship’ and compares them to others who invented and patented but did not pursue a business enterprise. It shows that the turn to entrepreneurship required a combination of intellectual, techn…
Time Standards for the Twentieth Century
Previous articleNext article FreeTime Standards for the Twentieth Century: Telecommunication, Physics, and the Quartz Clock*Shaul KatzirShaul KatzirTel Aviv University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreScene 1: a full-screen clock, its second hand approaching six o’clock. Dozens of workers r…
The Shaping of Interwar Physics by Technology
Argument Concentrating on the important developments of quantum physics, historians have overlooked other significant forces that shaped interwar physics, like that of technology. Based on the case of piezoelectricity, I argue that interests of users of technics (i.e. devices of methods) channeled research in physics into particular fields and questions relevant for industrial companies and governmental agencies. To recognize the effects of such …
Introduction
Historians, philosophers, and physicists portray the 1920s and 1930s as a period of major theoretical breakthrough in physics, quantum mechanics, which led to the expansion of physics into the core of the atom and the growth and strengthening of the discipline. These important developments in scientific inquiry into the micro-world and light have turned historical attention away from other significant historical processes and from other equally i…
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