page_title: Helge Kragh
hierarchical_section_title: Helge Kragh
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Danish historian Helge Kragh, 2019, recipient of the 2019 Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography, at the Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
context_page_description: Helge Stjernholm Kragh is a Danish historian of science who focuses on the development of 19th century physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
  His published work includes biographies of Paul Dirac, Julius Thomsen and Ludvig Lorenz, and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology which he co-edited with Malcolm Longair.
context_section_description: Helge Stjernholm Kragh (born February 13, 1944) is a Danish historian of science who focuses on the development of 19th century  physics, chemistry, and astronomy. 
  His published work includes biographies of Paul Dirac, Julius Thomsen and Ludvig Lorenz, and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology (2019) which he co-edited with Malcolm Longair.
caption: Helge Kragh, 2019
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