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Silvan S. Schweber
schweber@brandeis.edu
781.736.2837
Office: Abelson 121
Professor of Physics and
Richard Koret Professor in the History of
Ideas
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1952
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
Silvan
Schweber is presently involved in research
in the history of science. Areas include
the history of quantum field theory since
World War II, the visualization of
elementary processes (Feynman diagrams),
and the impact of these methods on the
conceptualization of physics; post-World
War II science; science at the end of the
century; and a biography of Hans A.
Bethe.
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Sample of Recent
Publications:
August Comte
and the Nebular Hypothesis in In the Presence of
the Past, Essays in Honor of Frank Manuel, R.
Bienvenue and M. Feingold, eds. (Kluwer Academic
1991) p. 280-365.
Big Science in
Context: Cornell and M.I.T. in Big Science: The
Growth of Large-Scale Research, P. Galison and B.
Hevly, eds. (Stanford University Press 1992), p.
149-189.
Scientists and
the State: The Legacy of World War II in Social
Studies of Science, (SAGE, London, Newbury Park and
New Delhi 1993), vol 23, p. 595-642.
Changing
Conceptualization of Renormalization in
Renormalization Theory, L. Brown, ed. (New
York:Springer Verlag 1993) p. 135-155.
The Conceptual
Foundations and Philosophical Aspects of
Renormalization Theory (with Tian Yua Cao) in
Synthese 97 (Kluwer Academic 1993) p. 33-108.
Physics,
Community, and the Crisis in Physical Theory, in
Physics Today (November 1993), p. 34-40.
A Historical
Perspective on the Rise of the Standard Model, to
appear in The Use of the Standard Model, L. Brown,
L. Hoddeson, and M. Riordan, eds. (Cambridge
University Press 1995).
Telling the Life
of Hans Bethe, to appear in Writing Scientific
Biography, R. Yeo, ed. (Cambridge University Press
1995).
Scientists and
the State: The Legacy of World War II, in Trends in
the Historiography of Science, Kostas Gavroglu, et
al., eds. (Dordrecht:Kluwer 1994), p. 327-354.
QED and the Men
Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and
Tomonaga, Princeton University Press 1994.
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