Roger H. Stuewer

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Roger Harry Stuewer (born September 12, 1934 in Shawano ) is an American physics and science historian .

Life

Stuewer received a BS in Physics Education from the University of Wisconsin in 1958 and an MS in Physics there in 1964. In between he was a teacher (mathematics and physics at the high school in Germantown in Wisconsin 1958/59). In 1968 he also received his PhD in History of Science and Physics there . In 1967 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor of the history of physics at the University of Minnesota . In 1971/72 he was an associate professor at Boston University and then again at the University of Minnesota, where he became professor for the history of natural sciences and technology in 1974 and retired in 2000.

In 1974/75 he was Honorary Research Associate at Harvard University and he was visiting professor at the universities of Munich, Graz, Vienna (where he was also on the program committee of the Vienna International Summer University) and Amsterdam. In 1981/82 he was a visiting scholar at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

He was editor of Resource Letters of the American Journal of Physics from 1978 and was co-founder and co-editor (from 1997) of the journal Physics in Perspective . Stuewer was secretary of the History of Science Society from 1972 to 1978 and he chaired the Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) of the American Physical Society . In addition, from 1980 to 1993 he chaired the advisory committee for the history of physics of the American Institute of Physics and in 1993/94 of the history and philosophy of the natural sciences section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , of which he is a fellow. In 1987/88 he headed the Physics History section of the APS.

Stuewer is primarily concerned with the history of quantum theory and nuclear physics and the role of physics history in physics lessons.

He has been married to Helga Schmeidel since 1960 and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, University of Minnesota Press 1970
  • The Compton Effect: Turning Point in Physics, New York, Science History Publications 1975
  • as editor: Nuclear Physics in Retrospect, Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930's, University of Minnesota Press 1979
  • Artificial Disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna Controversy, in: Peter Achinstein, Owen Hannaway (Eds.), Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science, MIT Press 1985, pp. 239-307
  • Editor with Sara Schechner Genuth, Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards: The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 139 , Springer 1992
  • The Origin of the Liquid-Drop Model and the Interpretation of Nuclear Fission, Perspectives on Science, Volume 2, 1994, pp. 39-92
  • Historical Surprises, Science and Education, Volume 15, 2006, pp. 521-530
  • Einstein's Revolutionary Light-Quantum Hypothesis, The Photon: Its First Hundred Years and the Future, Acta Physica Polonica B, Volume 37, 2006, pp. 543-558
  • The Seventh Solvay Conference, Nuclear Physics at the Crossroads, in: No Truth Except in the Details, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 167, 1995, pp. 333-362
  • with John S. Rigden (Ed.): The Physical Tourist: A Science Guide for the Traveler, Birkhäuser 2009
  • Carsten Jensen, Finn Aaserud, Helge Kragh, Erik Rüdinger, Roger H. Stuewer: Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911–1934, Birkhäuser 2000
  • The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars, Oxford University Press 2018

Awards

  • 1990 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Distinguished Service Citation
  • 1990 Minnesota's George Taylor Distinguished Service Award
  • 1991 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • In 1998/99 he was Centennial Speaker of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 Abraham Pais Prize
  • 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger H. Stuewer papers, 1921-1970s. Retrieved October 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  3. ↑ The Physicsl Tourist is a column from Physics in Perspective
  4. ↑ Price Recipient Stuewer. Retrieved October 9, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stuewer, Roger H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuewer, Roger Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawano