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Cosmology and Science Education: Problems and Promises
Helge Kragh
Cosmology differs in some respects significantly from other sciences, primarily because of its intimate association with issues of a conceptual and philosophical nature. Because co…
Criteria of Science, Cosmology, and Lessons of History
Helge Kragh
Perhaps more than any other of the physical sciences, cosmology exemplifies the inevitable contact between science and philosophy, including the problem of the demarcation criteria…
Eight Physicists and Astronomers: Biographical Portraits
Helge Kragh
This essay provides concise biographical information about eight physicists, astronomers, astrophysicists, and cosmologists from the twentieth century. The portrayed scientists are…
A Note on the Prehistory of Superheavy Elements
Helge Kragh
Artificially produced chemical elements heavier than uranium have been known for more than seventy years and the number of superheavy elements continues to grow. Presently 26 trans…
A Sense of Crisis: Physics in the fin-de-siecle Era
Helge Kragh
Whereas physics in the period from about 1880 to 1910 experienced a steady growth, it was also a revolutionary period in which the foundations of the physical world picture were cr…
Geometry and Astronomy: Pre-Einstein Speculations of Non-Euclidean Space
Helge Kragh
The recognition that physical space (or space-time) is curved is a product of the general theory of relativity, such as dramatically shown by the 1919 solar eclipse measurements. H…