Research and Pedagogy

A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

Contributors

1 Pedagogy and Research. Notes for a Historical Epistemology
of Science Education
Massimiliano Badino, Jaume Navarro

2 Sorting Things Out: Drude and the Foundations of Classical Optics
Marta Jordi Taltavull

3 Max Planck as Textbook Author
Dieter Hoffmann

4 Dissolving the Boundaries between Research and Pedagogy: Otto Sackur’s Lehrbuch der Thermochemie und Thermodynamik
Massimiliano Badino

5 Fritz Reiche’s 1921 Quantum Theory Textbook
Clayton A. Gearhart

6 Sommerfeld’s Atombau und Spektrallinien
Michael Eckert

7 Kuhn Losses Regained: Van Vleck from Spectra to
Susceptibilities
Charles Midwinter, Michel Janssen

8 Max Born’s Vorlesungen über Atommechanik, Erster Band
Domenico Giulini

9 Teaching Quantum Physics in Cambridge: George Birtwistle and His Two Textbooks
Jaume Navarro

10 Paul Dirac and The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Helge Kragh

11 Quantum Mechanics in Context:
Pascual Jordan's 1936 Anschauliche Quantentheorie
Don Howard

12 Epilogue: Textbooks and the Emergence of a Conceptual Trajectory
David Kaiser