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Department of Physics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208120
New Haven, CT 06520-8120
Phone: 203-432-3650
Fax: 203-432-6175
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Department of Physics
Research: History of Physics
For the past thirty years Professor Martin
Klein (Emeritus) has been pursuing studies of the history of 19th
and 20th century physics. His research has dealt with the interrelated
developments of quantum mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and
has usually concentrated on the work of individual physicists. Problems
studied have included the development of Boltzmann's statistical ideas,
Gibbs's early work in thermodynamics, Paul Ehrenfest's contributions to
the quantum theory, and the origins of Schröedinger's wave mechanics.
As the Senior Editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, his current
work concentrates on the evolution of Einstein's thinking on many of the
problems of modern physics.
Students interested in joining in these studies or pursuing other historical investigations on the physics of the last century and a half are encouraged to consult Professor Klein. Special programs of study and appropriate seminars can usually be arranged.
Professor Daniel Kevles joined Yale on July 1, 2001 as the Stanley Woodward Professor of History. He focuses his research on the past and present interplay of science and society, the history of science in America, and the history of modern physics, modern biology and environmentalism, as described
in this article in the Yale Bulletin and Calendar.
References
Paul Ehrenfest - Volume 1 - The Making of a Theoretical Physicist, Martin J. Klein (Paperback edition; North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985).
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3, M.J. Klein, A.J. Kox, J. Renn and R. Schulmann eds. (Princeton University Press, 1993).
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5, M.J. Klein, A.J. Kox and R. Schulmann, eds. (Princeton University Press, 1993).
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