Gerald Holton
Author of Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
About the Author
Born in Berlin, Germany, Gerald Holton received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1946. Shortly afterward, he launched into what has become a major part of his career---directing a well-known program that originally was developed to teach physical science to liberal arts majors at show more Harvard. This program, called Harvard Project Physics, became the model for an ambitious program to teach physics in a similar historical manner in colleges and high schools throughout the United States. Later, Holton used this model in a somewhat different manner, establishing a program for the public understanding of science that eventually grew into a journal, Science, Technology and Human Values. For many years, Holton was a coeditor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also gained recognition as a biographer of Albert Einstein, and he has worked tirelessly to demonstrate that science requires as much creative imagination as do the arts and humanities. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Gerald Holton
Einstein, History, And Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science At The End Of The Twentieth Century (1995) 87 copies, 1 review
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture (2008) — Editor — 32 copies
La lezione di Einstein 1 copy
A imaginação científica 1 copy
Scources of Quatum Mechanics 1 copy
Scienza e cultura oggi 1 copy
A imaginação científica 1 copy
Associated Works
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series) (2012) — Contributor — 901 copies, 17 reviews
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (2007) — Contributor — 668 copies, 8 reviews
Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" in Debate: Historical Essays and Documents on the 1941 Meeting Between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg (2005) — Contributor — 15 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Holton, Gerald
- Legal name
- Holton, Gerald James
- Birthdate
- 1922-05-23
- Gender
- male
- Education
- School of Technology, City of Oxford
Wesleyan University (BA|1941|MA|1942)
Harvard University (Ph.D|1946) - Occupations
- professor
physicist - Organizations
- Harvard University
History of Science Society - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1956)
American Philosophical Society (1996)
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2008)
Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst (2008)
Austrian Academy of Sciences (2016)
American Physical Society (Fellow, 1967) (show all 16)
Joseph H. Hazen Prize (1998)
John P. McGovern Medal (1985)
Andrew Gemant Award (1989)
J. D. Bernal Prize (1989)
Joseph Priestley Award (1994)
Abraham Pais Prize (2008)
George Sarton Medal (1989)
Jefferson Lecture (1981)
Oersted Medal (1980)
Robert A. Millikan Medal 91967) - Nationality
- Germany (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Berlin, Germany
- Places of residence
- Vienna, Austria
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Einstein, history, and other passions : the rebellion against science at the end of the twentieth century by Gerald Holton
"Gerald Holton uses his life and work of our century's greatest scientist to warn against today's gathering Romantic rebellion, one in which soience is blamed for all our social ills, and in which reason is being replaced by New Age "ways of knowing".Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, the author shows hoe the best science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of the Western civilization. Wide-ranging and forceful, This book is a must reading for anyone show more interested in the place of science in our world." show less
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Philip Frans and his Philosophy of Science
Realism in 17th Century Dutch Painting
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Language and Politics in India Paul Friederich
Hypothesis in Late Medieval...Physics Benjamin Nelson
Philip Frans and his Philosophy of Science
Qualitative and Quantitative in Political and Legal Analysis by Lasswell
Political Philosophy of Jacques Martin by Clarence Morris
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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