Physics As a Calling, Science for Society
Subtitle: Studies in Honour of A. J. Kox
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9789087281984
Subjects: Physics
Description: This book is a token of appreciation for A.J. Kox on his retirement as Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. The papers, written by close colleagues from the Netherlands and abroad, reflect Kox's own fields of interest: physics and Dutch science in the period 1850-1950. The book focuses especially on the two towering figures of theoretical physics to whom Kox has devoted a large part of his professional life: Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein. A central theme in many of the contributions is the tension that existed in this period between fundamental science and social concerns.