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Before Bethe: Early Ideas of the Sun's Generation of Energy
Helge Kragh
Solar energy remained an enigma for nearly a century. For a while astronomers and physicists believed that the source of the Sun's energy was gravitational contraction, but the the…
Reluctant Pioneer of Nuclear Astrophysics: Eddington and the Problem of Stellar Energy
Helge Kragh
During the years from 1917 to 1921, A.S. Eddington was intensely occupied with Einstein's general theory of relativity and the epic eclipse expedition which confirmed one of the th…
Physics and the Totalitarian Principle
Helge Kragh
What is sometimes called the "totalitarian principle," a metaphysical doctrine often associated with the famous physicist Murray Gell-Mann, states that everything allowed by the la…
Max Weinstein: Physics, Philosophy, Pandeism
Helge Kragh
This is a brief introduction to the life and ideas of the Lithuanian-German physicist, philosopher and religious thinker Max B. Weinstein, who is today best known for his thoughts…
Hubble Law or Hubble-Lemaître Law? The IAU Resolution
Helge Kragh
The Hubble law, widely considered the first observational basis for the expansion of the universe, may in the future be known as the Hubble-Lemaître law. This is what the General A…
Ludvig Lorenz (1867) on Light and Electricity
Helge Kragh
Independent of Maxwell, in 1867 the Danish physicist L. V. Lorenz proposed a theory in which he identified light with electrical oscillations propagating in a very poor conductor.…