Alexander C T Geppert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander C T Geppert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander C T |
| FAMILY NAME | Geppert |
| SIGNATURE | GEPPERT A C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1203-4809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Martin Collins (1951–2025)
Rocket stars, space personas and the global Space Age
The founding figures, advocates and engineers of the early Space Age are frequently hailed as ‘fathers’, ‘forebears’, ‘prophets’, ‘pioneers’, ‘visionaries’ and ‘heroes’, employing hagiographic, gendered and indiscriminate tropes that lack analytical value. Inspired by persona and celebrity studies, this introduction proposes an alternative approach to comprehend the historical significance and historiographical prominence attributed to global ‘ro…
The celebrification of Qian Xuesen
Commonly referred to as the ‘father of spaceflight’ and ‘king of rocketry’, Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) is for many Chinese citizens the pre-eminent scientist of the twentieth century. Trained at the California Institute of Technology, he co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before returning to China in 1955, where he became instrumental in the space programme and the missile industry. This article investigates Qian’s ascent from aeronautical eng…
Zeit-Geschichte als Aufgabe
Obsession der Gegenwart
Fleeting Cities
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900
Rethinking the Space Age
We have had an age of steam-power, an age of electricity and of the petrol engine, and an age of the air, and now with the coming of atomic power the world should, in due course, find itself in the
Extraterrestrial encounters
Beginning in 1947, with the first waves of UFO sightings, and continuing in the subsequent decades, debates on the existence and gestalt of extraterrestrial life gained unprecedented prominence. Initially an American phenomenon, flying saucer reports quickly became global in scope. Contemporaneous with efforts to legitimize the possibility of spaceflight in the years before Sputnik, the UFO phenomenon generated as much sensation in Europe as in t…
Space Personae
GermanFrenchPersonae des Weltraums: Kosmopolitische Netzwerke peripheren Wissens, 1927–1957Wie hat sich der europäische Astrofuturismus zu einem Kernelement westlicher Modernität entwickelt? Anhand der Aktivitäten zweier Protagonisten der frühen Raumfahrt-Bewegung, Willy Ley (1906–1969) und Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), zeichnet der Aufsatz die Genese einer kosmopolitischen Internationale des Weltraums vor und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach. Wäh…
Historians and (Auto)Biography
no abstract
Historians in Flux
historien un peu." Some fifteen years later, these aims are still relevant; indeed, even more so. The historical profession is imbued with presuppositions which die hard, such as the conviction regarding the empirical nature of research, which supposes that little theoretical reflection is needed to produce a good history text. Again, the teaching of history is still largely inspired by
Fleeting Cities
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900
Extraterrestrial encounters
Beginning in 1947, with the first waves of UFO sightings, and continuing in the subsequent decades, debates on the existence and gestalt of extraterrestrial life gained unprecedented prominence. Initially an American phenomenon, flying saucer reports quickly became global in scope. Contemporaneous with efforts to legitimize the possibility of spaceflight in the years before Sputnik, the UFO phenomenon generated as much sensation in Europe as in t…
Historians in Flux
historien un peu." Some fifteen years later, these aims are still relevant; indeed, even more so. The historical profession is imbued with presuppositions which die hard, such as the conviction regarding the empirical nature of research, which supposes that little theoretical reflection is needed to produce a good history text. Again, the teaching of history is still largely inspired by
Space Personae
GermanFrenchPersonae des Weltraums: Kosmopolitische Netzwerke peripheren Wissens, 1927–1957Wie hat sich der europäische Astrofuturismus zu einem Kernelement westlicher Modernität entwickelt? Anhand der Aktivitäten zweier Protagonisten der frühen Raumfahrt-Bewegung, Willy Ley (1906–1969) und Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), zeichnet der Aufsatz die Genese einer kosmopolitischen Internationale des Weltraums vor und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach. Wäh…
Historians and (Auto)Biography
no abstract
Historians in Flux
historien un peu." Some fifteen years later, these aims are still relevant; indeed, even more so. The historical profession is imbued with presuppositions which die hard, such as the conviction regarding the empirical nature of research, which supposes that little theoretical reflection is needed to produce a good history text. Again, the teaching of history is still largely inspired by
Space Personae
GermanFrenchPersonae des Weltraums: Kosmopolitische Netzwerke peripheren Wissens, 1927–1957Wie hat sich der europäische Astrofuturismus zu einem Kernelement westlicher Modernität entwickelt? Anhand der Aktivitäten zweier Protagonisten der frühen Raumfahrt-Bewegung, Willy Ley (1906–1969) und Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), zeichnet der Aufsatz die Genese einer kosmopolitischen Internationale des Weltraums vor und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach. Wäh…
Rethinking the Space Age
We have had an age of steam-power, an age of electricity and of the petrol engine, and an age of the air, and now with the coming of atomic power the world should, in due course, find itself in the
Extraterrestrial encounters
Beginning in 1947, with the first waves of UFO sightings, and continuing in the subsequent decades, debates on the existence and gestalt of extraterrestrial life gained unprecedented prominence. Initially an American phenomenon, flying saucer reports quickly became global in scope. Contemporaneous with efforts to legitimize the possibility of spaceflight in the years before Sputnik, the UFO phenomenon generated as much sensation in Europe as in t…
Fleeting Cities
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900
Zeit-Geschichte als Aufgabe
Obsession der Gegenwart
Rocket stars, space personas and the global Space Age
The founding figures, advocates and engineers of the early Space Age are frequently hailed as ‘fathers’, ‘forebears’, ‘prophets’, ‘pioneers’, ‘visionaries’ and ‘heroes’, employing hagiographic, gendered and indiscriminate tropes that lack analytical value. Inspired by persona and celebrity studies, this introduction proposes an alternative approach to comprehend the historical significance and historiographical prominence attributed to global ‘ro…
The celebrification of Qian Xuesen
Commonly referred to as the ‘father of spaceflight’ and ‘king of rocketry’, Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) is for many Chinese citizens the pre-eminent scientist of the twentieth century. Trained at the California Institute of Technology, he co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before returning to China in 1955, where he became instrumental in the space programme and the missile industry. This article investigates Qian’s ascent from aeronautical eng…
Martin Collins (1951–2025)
Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Space exploration and regulation (4 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Philosophy, History, and Historiography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aeronautics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)