Richard H Beyler
Biographic Data
| ID | 969851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard H Beyler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard H |
| FAMILY NAME | Beyler |
| SIGNATURE | BEYLER R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
T iago S araiva . Fascist Pigs
If there were an award for the historical monograph with the cleverest title, Fascist Pigs might win, but this book delivers much more than a clever title. Relying on an impressive range and depth of sources, marshaling a thought-provoking argument, and using lively prose, Tiago Saraiva’s comparative study of plant and animal breeding in Fascist Italy, National Socialist Germany, and “New State” Portugal illuminates our understanding of the histo…
Nitzan Lebovic. The Philosophy of Life and Death
Reviews the book, "The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics" by Nitzan Lebovic
Einstein’s Generation
Reviewed by: Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution Richard H. Beyler (bio) Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. By Richard Staley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+494. $98/$38. The title of this book has a dual meaning. On one hand, Einstein’s Generation is a study of the physics community in the decades around 1900. On the other, it investigates the historical generation of …
Einstein and Oppenheimer
Reviewed by: Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius Richard H. Beyler (bio) Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. By Silvan S. Schweber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+412. $29.95. While this volume is largely comprised of revised versions of previously published material, it is hardly a heterogeneous assortment of occasional papers. Taken together, the chapters of Einstein and Oppenheimer form a com…
Hostile Environmental Intellectuals? Critiques and Counter‐Critiques of Science and Technology in West Germany after 1945
Feindliche intellektuelle Umwelt? Kritiker und Gegenkritiker von Naturwissenschaft und Technik in Westdeutschland nach 1945. Paul Forman stellt in seiner Arbeit über Physik in der Weimarer Republik die These auf, dass in diesem Kontext von Niederlage und politischer Krise eine irrationalistische Strömung innerhalb deutscher intellektueller Geschichte plötzlich gestärkt wurde. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war die Lage Deutschlands noch katastrophale…
Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht
Reviewed by: Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht: Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896–1963 Richard H. Beyler (bio) Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht: Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896–1963. By Monika Dommann . Zürich: Chronos, 2003. Pp. 447. SFr 44. Despite the broad title, Monika Dommann's main focus is rather specific: the introduction of X rays into medical practice in German-speaking Switzerland during the first few decades after 1895. …
Walther von Dyck (1856-1934)
Reviewed by: Walther von Dyck (1856–1934): Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München Richard H. Beyler (bio) Walther von Dyck (1856–1934): Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München. By Ulf Hashagen. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. xv+802. €108. With 663 pages of text (excluding back matter), 94 pages of bibliography, and 3,938 footnotes, this is a brick of a book. Ulf Hashage…
Maintaining Discipline in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during the National Socialist Regime
Purges in Comparative Perspective
During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …
The demon of technology, mass society, and atomic physics in West Germany, 1945–1957
In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “mass society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in …
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science (review)
This scientific biography of the German physical chemist Walther Nernst (1864-1941) is not a heroic tale, but instead, as its title suggests, a finely textured account of a complex transition to a new domain of research. Nernst is best known for his heat theorem, published in early 1906 and today commonly called the Third Law of Thermodynamics. The Third Law became a foundation of physical chemistry and solid-state physics. It also furnished scie…
Reflections on a Theory of Organisms
Lise Meitner
Targeting the Organism
Operation Epsilon
Der Einstein-Turm
Targeting the Organism
Purges in Comparative Perspective
During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …
Der Einstein-Turm
Operation Epsilon
Lise Meitner
Targeting the Organism
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science (review)
This scientific biography of the German physical chemist Walther Nernst (1864-1941) is not a heroic tale, but instead, as its title suggests, a finely textured account of a complex transition to a new domain of research. Nernst is best known for his heat theorem, published in early 1906 and today commonly called the Third Law of Thermodynamics. The Third Law became a foundation of physical chemistry and solid-state physics. It also furnished scie…
Reflections on a Theory of Organisms
The demon of technology, mass society, and atomic physics in West Germany, 1945–1957
In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “mass society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in …
Purges in Comparative Perspective
During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …
Walther von Dyck (1856-1934)
Reviewed by: Walther von Dyck (1856–1934): Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München Richard H. Beyler (bio) Walther von Dyck (1856–1934): Mathematik, Technik und Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH München. By Ulf Hashagen. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. xv+802. €108. With 663 pages of text (excluding back matter), 94 pages of bibliography, and 3,938 footnotes, this is a brick of a book. Ulf Hashage…
Maintaining Discipline in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during the National Socialist Regime
Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht
Reviewed by: Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht: Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896–1963 Richard H. Beyler (bio) Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht: Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896–1963. By Monika Dommann . Zürich: Chronos, 2003. Pp. 447. SFr 44. Despite the broad title, Monika Dommann's main focus is rather specific: the introduction of X rays into medical practice in German-speaking Switzerland during the first few decades after 1895. …
Hostile Environmental Intellectuals? Critiques and Counter‐Critiques of Science and Technology in West Germany after 1945
Feindliche intellektuelle Umwelt? Kritiker und Gegenkritiker von Naturwissenschaft und Technik in Westdeutschland nach 1945. Paul Forman stellt in seiner Arbeit über Physik in der Weimarer Republik die These auf, dass in diesem Kontext von Niederlage und politischer Krise eine irrationalistische Strömung innerhalb deutscher intellektueller Geschichte plötzlich gestärkt wurde. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war die Lage Deutschlands noch katastrophale…
Einstein and Oppenheimer
Reviewed by: Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius Richard H. Beyler (bio) Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. By Silvan S. Schweber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+412. $29.95. While this volume is largely comprised of revised versions of previously published material, it is hardly a heterogeneous assortment of occasional papers. Taken together, the chapters of Einstein and Oppenheimer form a com…
Einstein’s Generation
Reviewed by: Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution Richard H. Beyler (bio) Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. By Richard Staley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+494. $98/$38. The title of this book has a dual meaning. On one hand, Einstein’s Generation is a study of the physics community in the decades around 1900. On the other, it investigates the historical generation of …
Nitzan Lebovic. The Philosophy of Life and Death
Reviews the book, "The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics" by Nitzan Lebovic
T iago S araiva . Fascist Pigs
If there were an award for the historical monograph with the cleverest title, Fascist Pigs might win, but this book delivers much more than a clever title. Relying on an impressive range and depth of sources, marshaling a thought-provoking argument, and using lively prose, Tiago Saraiva’s comparative study of plant and animal breeding in Fascist Italy, National Socialist Germany, and “New State” Portugal illuminates our understanding of the histo…
Philosophy (12 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · German (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)