Mary Jo Nye
Biographic Data
| ID | 968808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jo Nye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Nye |
| SIGNATURE | NYE M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transforming economics with a film projector: Gábor Bíró: The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi. Milton Park, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020. £115 HB
Boundaries, Transformations, Historiography: Physics in Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s
The decades of the 1920s to the 1960s were a period of transformation in chemical science. The era was marked by erosion of boundaries that had often been drawn between chemistry and other scientific disciplines. In particular, theories, instruments, and mathematical approaches associated with the new physics of X-rays, the electron particle, and the electron wave enabled chemists and other physical scientists to address unsolved chemical problem…
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Personal Knowledge Argument, Audiences, and Sociological Engagement
This chapter discusses Michael Polanyi's incentive for the publication of his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy of Science, which was an invitation to give a set of Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. The mandate of the lectures is one of discussing natural religion or natural theology as knowledge “without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation.” The lect…
Germany and Weimar Berlin as the City of Science
Liberalism and the Economic Foundations of the “Republic of Science”
Chemical Dynamics and Social Dynamics in Berlin and Manchester
This chapter focuses on the collaborative work between Polanyi and Eyring, which made an enduring contribution in defining and defending the use of the “semi-empirical method” in theoretical chemistry, which synthesized kinetic theory and thermodynamics with quantum mechanics and the theory of the electron–valence bond. Michael Polanyi is best known and revered among chemists and physicists for his theoretical and experimental work in chemical ki…
Scientific Culture in Europe and the Refugee Generation
This chapter focuses on Michael Polanyi's early life in Budapest; the circumstances of the double exiles of Polanyi, his family, and scientific colleagues; his later experiences of discrimination in the United States; and his reflections on assimilation and Jewish identity. In Budapest, the young Polanyi absorbed a cosmopolitan, liberal, and transnational European point of view that characterized many assimilated or baptized Jews of early twentie…
SSK, Constructivism, and the Paradoxical Legacy Of Polanyi and the 1930s Generation
This chapter focuses on David Edge, who, among the three founding generations in the social epistemology of science, was a member of the transitional second generation in Great Britain. Edge helped establish the Edinburgh program in sociology of scientific knowledge, which became known as SSK. In discussing the origins of the program, he later noted the impact in Great Britain of the kind of argument which Derek de Solla Price was making about bi…
Political Foundations of the Philosophies of Science of Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi
This chapter focuses on the early experiences and writings of Popper and Kuhn before the publication of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and makes comparisons between Popper's and Kuhn's epistemological arguments and political assumptions with Michael Polanyi's published views prior to Personal Knowledge. Its argument is that the initial influence of Popper's and Polanyi's truly original ideas in the philosophy of science occurred in thei…
Origins of a Social Perspective: Doing Physical Chemistry in Weimar Berlin
This chapter examines Michael Polanyi's work in surface chemistry and X-ray diffraction by way of analyzing how he later drew upon his experiences in order to develop the notion of the “typical” or ordinary scientist who is at the heart of everyday scientific practice. Polanyi's investigations in these two fields generated greater skepticism and less recognition from his colleagues than his results in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics, whic…
Scientific Freedom and the Social Functions of Science
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi
Passionate Empiricism
Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means
Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience. This essay examines approaches typical of different genres of scientific biography, including historians' motivations in their choices of biographical subject and their decisions about strategies for re…
Pierre Curie, 1859-1906: Le rêve scientifique. Loïc Barbo
Physical and Biological Modes of Thought in the Chemistry of Linus Pauling
Temptations of theory, strategies of evidence: P. M. S. Blackett and the earth's magnetism, 1947–52
In the late spring of 1947, the experimental physicist P. M. S. Blackett succumbed to the temptations of theory. At this time, Blackett (1897–1974) was fifty years old. He was a veteran of the Cavendish tradition in particle physics and he was on his way to an unshared award of the 1948 Nobel Prize for his experimental researches in nuclear physics and cosmic-ray physics. His photographs of cloud-chamber tracks of alpha particles, protons, electr…
Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science: The De Broglies in Modern France
Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean to be an aristocrat in an age of science? This essay explores aristocratic culture in France in the early twentieth century and examines the family li…
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur
National Styles? French and English Chemistry in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815 by Henry E. Lowood
142 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE an open book and the other sitting pensively. “The two women are apparently reading together,” notes the author, and he goes on to express puzzlement at the artist’s “odd” choice of title (p. 4). In fact only one sister is shown reading; the other has been set the task of embroidering. The screw of the tilted frame and the yarn are visible even in the poor reproduction. The history of reading is not as irre…
Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means
Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience. This essay examines approaches typical of different genres of scientific biography, including historians' motivations in their choices of biographical subject and their decisions about strategies for re…
National Styles? French and English Chemistry in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The nineteenth-century atomic debates and the dilemma of an ‘indifferent hypothesis’
The Boutroux Circle and Poincare's Conventionalism
In France at the turn of the twentieth century, contemporary observers wrote of a renaissance in French philosophy which by the time of Henri Poincare's death in 1912 was irrevocably linked with his name and the philosophy of conventionalism.1 This conventionalist philosophy asserted that fundamental scientific principles are not reflections of the real nature of the universe but are convenient ways of describing the natural world insofar as they…
The Moral Freedom of Man and the Determinism of Nature: The Catholic Synthesis of Science and History in the Revue des Questions Scientifiques
In 1877 the first issue of the Revue des questions scientifiques , published by the Scientific Society of Brussels, appeared in France and Belgium. The new journal was greeted with disdain and hostility by Emile Littrè and George Wyrouboff, the disciples of Auguste Comte and editors of La philosophie positive . The Scientific Society of Brussels was a Catholic organization, and the positivists' opinion was that ‘If science is spoken of in this as…
The scientific periphery in France: The faculty of sciences at Toulouse (1880?1930)
Science and Socialism: The Case of Jean Perrin in the Third Republic
Throughout its history Marxism has identified itself with science. According to the French Communist biologist Marcel Prenant the method of dialectics is the scientific method,1 and the choice of materialism over idealism is the verdict of scientific investigation. The allegiance of scientists to the Marxist philosophy would seem to follow then as a matter of course. But historically this has not been the case in those countries contributing most…
Scientific Decline: Is Quantitative Evaluation Enough
The scientific periphery in France: The faculty of sciences at Toulouse (1880?1930)
Science and Socialism: The Case of Jean Perrin in the Third Republic
Throughout its history Marxism has identified itself with science. According to the French Communist biologist Marcel Prenant the method of dialectics is the scientific method,1 and the choice of materialism over idealism is the verdict of scientific investigation. The allegiance of scientists to the Marxist philosophy would seem to follow then as a matter of course. But historically this has not been the case in those countries contributing most…
The nineteenth-century atomic debates and the dilemma of an ‘indifferent hypothesis’
The Moral Freedom of Man and the Determinism of Nature: The Catholic Synthesis of Science and History in the Revue des Questions Scientifiques
In 1877 the first issue of the Revue des questions scientifiques , published by the Scientific Society of Brussels, appeared in France and Belgium. The new journal was greeted with disdain and hostility by Emile Littrè and George Wyrouboff, the disciples of Auguste Comte and editors of La philosophie positive . The Scientific Society of Brussels was a Catholic organization, and the positivists' opinion was that ‘If science is spoken of in this as…
American and French Culture, 1800-1900. Interchanges in Art, Science, Literature, and Society . Henry Blumenthal
Nonconformity and Creativity: A Study of Paul Sabatier, Chemical Theory, and the French Scientific Community
Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois
The Boutroux Circle and Poincare's Conventionalism
In France at the turn of the twentieth century, contemporary observers wrote of a renaissance in French philosophy which by the time of Henri Poincare's death in 1912 was irrevocably linked with his name and the philosophy of conventionalism.1 This conventionalist philosophy asserted that fundamental scientific principles are not reflections of the real nature of the universe but are convenient ways of describing the natural world insofar as they…
The Edge of Contingency: French Catholic Reaction to Scientific Change from Darwin to Duhem . Harry W. Paul
News of Record
Actes du colloque: Enseignement de l'histoire des sciences aux scientifiques . J. Dhombres
The Organization of Science and Technology in France 1808-1914. Robert Fox , George Weisz
Scientific Decline: Is Quantitative Evaluation Enough
Professions and the French State, 1700-1900 . Gerald Geison
Sciences et techniques en perspective . Jean Dhombres
From Knowledge to Power: The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860-1939 . Harry W. Paul
Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860-1930
The Nobel Population, 1901-1937: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry . Elisabeth Crawford , J. L. Heilbron , Rebecca Ullrich
Langevin: Science et vigilance. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Revue de Synthèse . Dominique Bourel , Eric Brian , Roger Chartier , Joël Cornette , Ernest Coumet , Henri-Jean Martin , Jacques Merleau-Ponty , Pierre Monzani , Jean-Claude Perrot , Roshdi Rashed , D…
Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America . John W. Servos
National Styles? French and English Chemistry in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815 by Henry E. Lowood
142 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE an open book and the other sitting pensively. “The two women are apparently reading together,” notes the author, and he goes on to express puzzlement at the artist’s “odd” choice of title (p. 4). In fact only one sister is shown reading; the other has been set the task of embroidering. The screw of the tilted frame and the yarn are visible even in the poor reproduction. The history of reading is not as irre…
Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815
Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science: The De Broglies in Modern France
Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean to be an aristocrat in an age of science? This essay explores aristocratic culture in France in the early twentieth century and examines the family li…
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