Klaus Hentschel

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Klaus Hentschel, 2010 in Jena

Klaus Hentschel (born April 4, 1961 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German physicist and science historian .

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Klaus Hentschel is the son of the painter, sculptor and graphic artist Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen (1922–2014). From 1979 he studied physics, philosophy, history of science and musicology at the University of Hamburg . He completed his studies in philosophy in 1985 with a master's degree and in physics in 1987 with a diploma . After stays abroad in the USA , including a DAAD scholarship in Boston, he was promoted by the German National Academic Foundation in 1989 with the work Interpretations and Misinterpretations of the Special and General Theory of Relativity by Contemporaries of Albert Einstein at the University of Hamburg as a Dr . rer. nat. PhD . After working on a DFG project on epistemic systems , he became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Göttingen in 1991 .

In 1995 he became involved with the work on the interplay of instrument, experiment and theory. Red shift in the solar spectrum and related spectral shift effects from 1880 to 1960 at the University of Hamburg habilitation . 1995/1996 Klaus Hentschel was a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1996 to 2002 he was senior assistant at the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Göttingen, then returned to MIT and then until 2003 Ernst Cassirer guest professor at the Philosophical Department of the University of Hamburg. From 2003 to 2005 he worked at the University of Bern with a research grant from the DFG . In 2005/2006 he represented the chair for the history of natural sciences and technology at the University of Stuttgart .

In 2006, Klaus Hentschel was offered a Lichtenberg professorship from the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg on the subject of “Comparative History of Science” and the history of mentality, as well as a professorship at the University of Stuttgart, which he accepted. Since 2006 he has been head of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology Department at the Historical Institute at the University of Stuttgart. From 2013 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2018 he was chairman of the board of the Fachverband Wissenschaftsgeschichte, from 2015 to 2017 he was deputy chairman; from 2014 to 2018 he was a member of the German National Committee of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).

Klaus Hentschel is co-editor of Sudhoff's archive. Journal for the History of Science and the book series Stuttgart Contributions to the History of Science and Technology .

Awards

Memberships

Fonts

  • Interpretations and misinterpretations of the special and general relativity theory by Albert Einstein's contemporaries. Dissertation. University of Hamburg. Birkhäuser, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-7643-2438-4 .
  • The correspondence Petzoldt - Reichenbach. Sigma, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-928068-03-2 .
  • The Einstein Tower. Spectrum, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-86025-025-6 . English language edition: The Einstein tower. Translation from German by Ann M. Hentschel. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2824-0 .
  • On the interplay of instrument, experiment and theory. Red shift in the solar spectrum and related spectral shift effects from 1880 to 1960. Habilitation thesis. University of Hamburg. Kovač, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-86064-730-X .
  • Gaussen's invisible hand: the university mechanic and machine inspector Moritz Meyerstein . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-82126-3 .
  • The mentality of German physicists in the early post-war period. Synchron, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-935025-80-7 .
  • Invisible light? Dark warmth? Chemical rays? Publishing house for the history of natural sciences and technology, Diepholz, Stuttgart, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-928186-84-1 .
  • Visual Cultures in Science and Technology. A Comparative History. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-871787-4 .
  • Photons. The history and mental models of light quanta. Springer, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-95252-9 .

Editorships

  • with John Blackmore : Ernst Mach as an outsider: Mach's correspondence on philosophy and the theory of relativity with personalities of his time. Excerpt from the last notebook (facsimile) by Ernst Mach (= Philosophica. Volume 3). Braumüller, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7003-0612-1 .
  • with Ann M. Hentschel: Physics and National Socialism. An Anthology of Primary Sources. Translation by Ann M. Hentschel. Birkhäuser, 1996. ISBN 3-7643-5312-0 .
  • Letter diary between Max Planck, Carl Runge, Bernhard Karsten and Adolf Leopold. ERS, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-928577-34-4 .
  • The role of visual representations in astronomy. German, Thun, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8171-1630-6 .
  • Invisible hands. On the role of laboratory assistants, mechanics, draftsmen and other amanuenses in physical research and development. Publishing house for the history of natural sciences and technology, Diepholz, Stuttgart, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-928186-85-8 .
  • with Friedel Weinert, Dan Greenberger: Compendium of Quantum Physics. Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-70626-7 .
  • Analogies in science and medicine. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8047-2865-3 ( Acta Historica Leopoldina. 56).
  • On the history of research technologies. Genericity-interstitiality transfer. GNT, Diepholz, Berlin, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-86225-105-6 .
  • Historical campus guide of the University of Stuttgart. 3 volumes. GNT, Diepholz, Berlin, Stuttgart 2010-2014, ISBN 978-3-86225-102-5 , ISBN 978-3-86225-010-3 , ISBN 978-3-86225-011-0 .
  • with D. Hoffmann: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Physics, Philosophy and Peace Research. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8047-3244-5 ( Acta Historica Leopoldina. 63).
  • with J. Webel: History and Practice of Materials Research. GNT, Diepholz 2016, ISBN 978-3-86225-107-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen
  2. ↑ Klaus Hentschel: Interpretations and misinterpretations of the special and general relativity theory by Albert Einstein's contemporaries. Birkhäuser, Basel 1990, p. XVI.
  3. ^ Sudhoffs archive journal for the history of science.
  4. ^ Stuttgart contributions to the history of science and technology.
  5. ↑ Communications on the history of astronomy (PDF; 12 kB)
  6. ^ Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
  7. ↑ New Whitrow Prize awarded to Prof. Klaus Hentschel on uni-stuttgart.de
  8. ↑ Member entry by Klaus Hentschel (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hentschel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim