David Cahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 987553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahan |
| SIGNATURE | CAHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Climate in Motion
Reviewed by: Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen David Cahan (bio) Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 425. Hardcover $40. Deborah Coen's book is a study of the emergence and rise of dynamic climatology in the Austrian (after 1867, the Austro-Hungarian) Empire. Her analysis follows the theme of "scaling" used b…
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821–94)
Helmholtz and the British scientific elite
This article discusses the close relationship that developed during the 1850s and 1860s between Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), one of the leading German scientists during the second half of the nineteenth century, and the British scientific elite generally. It focuses especially on the importance of the law of conservation of energy to both sides of that relationship as the law emerged and became popularized. In presenting this Anglo-German rel…
The awarding of the Copley Medal and the ‘discovery’ of the law of conservation of energy
This article analyses the awarding of the Royal Society's Copley Medal to James Prescott Joule (1870), Julius Robert Mayer (1871) and Hermann Helmholtz (1873) in the wake of the establishment of the law of conservation of energy during the 1850s and 1860s. It seeks to reconstruct the context in which the awards occurred, emphasizing at once a combination of individual scientific achievement, advocacy on behalf of Joule's supporters, nationalism, …
"The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences
David Cahan The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences": Helmholtz between Science and Politics INTRODUCTION By the last third of the nineteenth centuiy, German universities were widely perceived as the w orld's leading institutions of higher learning, as sites where science and scholarship of the highest level flourished.* It had not always been so. From their emergence during the fourteenth century down through the Enlightenm ent, German universi…
Science at the American Frontier
Journal Article Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. By David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xvi, 209 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1508-8.) Get access George E. Webb George E. Webb Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pag…
Institute im Bild. Part 1
Hermann von Helmholtz
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
On Helmholtz and ‘Bürgerliche intelligenz’
Physics as a Calling
The Kaiser's Chemists
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte . Fritz Krafft NTM
An Institute for an Empire
The Comparative Reception of Relativity . Thomas F. Glick
Kohlrausch and Electrolytic Conductivity
Physics for a New Century
The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795) . Karl Hufbauer
"The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences
David Cahan The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences": Helmholtz between Science and Politics INTRODUCTION By the last third of the nineteenth centuiy, German universities were widely perceived as the w orld's leading institutions of higher learning, as sites where science and scholarship of the highest level flourished.* It had not always been so. From their emergence during the fourteenth century down through the Enlightenm ent, German universi…
Kohlrausch and Electrolytic Conductivity
The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795) . Karl Hufbauer
Physics for a New Century
Kohlrausch and Electrolytic Conductivity
An Institute for an Empire
The Comparative Reception of Relativity . Thomas F. Glick
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte . Fritz Krafft NTM
The Kaiser's Chemists
Physics as a Calling
On Helmholtz and ‘Bürgerliche intelligenz’
Hermann von Helmholtz
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
Institute im Bild. Part 1
Science at the American Frontier
Journal Article Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. By David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xvi, 209 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1508-8.) Get access George E. Webb George E. Webb Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pag…
"The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences
David Cahan The "Imperial Chancellor of the Sciences": Helmholtz between Science and Politics INTRODUCTION By the last third of the nineteenth centuiy, German universities were widely perceived as the w orld's leading institutions of higher learning, as sites where science and scholarship of the highest level flourished.* It had not always been so. From their emergence during the fourteenth century down through the Enlightenm ent, German universi…
Helmholtz and the British scientific elite
This article discusses the close relationship that developed during the 1850s and 1860s between Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), one of the leading German scientists during the second half of the nineteenth century, and the British scientific elite generally. It focuses especially on the importance of the law of conservation of energy to both sides of that relationship as the law emerged and became popularized. In presenting this Anglo-German rel…
The awarding of the Copley Medal and the ‘discovery’ of the law of conservation of energy
This article analyses the awarding of the Royal Society's Copley Medal to James Prescott Joule (1870), Julius Robert Mayer (1871) and Hermann Helmholtz (1873) in the wake of the establishment of the law of conservation of energy during the 1850s and 1860s. It seeks to reconstruct the context in which the awards occurred, emphasizing at once a combination of individual scientific achievement, advocacy on behalf of Joule's supporters, nationalism, …
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821–94)
Climate in Motion
Reviewed by: Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen David Cahan (bio) Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 425. Hardcover $40. Deborah Coen's book is a study of the emergence and rise of dynamic climatology in the Austrian (after 1867, the Austro-Hungarian) Empire. Her analysis follows the theme of "scaling" used b…
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