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Helge Kragh

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Nationality
  
Danish

Residence
  
Denmark

Fields
  
Science historian

Field
  
History of science

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Institutions
  
Aarhus University, Denmark

Known for
  
History of cosmology, relativity, quantum mechanics

Alma maters
  
University of Copenhagen, Roskilde University

Books
  
Quantum generations, Cosmology and controversy, Higher Speculations: Grand Th, Dirac: A Scientific Biography, Niels Bohr and the Quantum

Similar
  
Masanori Kaji, David M Knight, Charles Coulston Gillispie, Carsten Jensen

Helge Stjernholm Kragh (born February 13, 1944) is a Danish historian of science.

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Biography

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Kragh studied mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen before obtaining his PhD in 1981 at the University of Roskilde. He is a professor at the Centre for Science Studies of Aarhus University.

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Kragh's areas of study are the history of physics from the mid-19th century onward, the history of astronomy, the history of cosmology and the history of chemistry.

Honors and awards

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  • President, European Society for the History of Science 2008–2010
  • Member, European Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (corresponding member since 1995, full member since 2005)
  • Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Selected writings

  • Dirac – a scientific biography. Cambridge University Press 1990, 2005, ISBN 0521017564
  • Quantum Generations – a history of physics in the 20. Century. Princeton University Press, 1999
  • An introduction to the historiography of Science. Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • Matter and Spirit in the Universe – scientific and religious preludes to modern cosmology. 2004
  • Conceptions of Cosmos – from myth to the accelerating universe. Oxford University Press, 2006
  • Cosmology and Controversy- the historical development of two theories of the universe. Princeton University Press, 1999
  • The Moon that wasn't -the saga of Venus'spurious satellite. Birkhäuser, 2008
  • Entropy Creation – religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology. Ashgate, London 2008
  • Editor (with David Knight): The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789–1914. Cambridge University Press, 1998
  • with Peter C. Kjargaard, Henry Nielsen: Science in Denmark- through a thousand years. Aarhus University Press, 2009
  • List of Kragh's publication at Aarhus University
  • Homepage in Aarhus
  • References

    Helge Kragh Wikipedia