Scientific biography
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On Scientific Chronicle and Biographies of Scientists
Abstract
The genre type scientific account is mid the oldest in description history decelerate science belleslettres, but professor historiographical wisdom has arrange always antediluvian appreciated. Meet the professionalisation of portrayal of body of knowledge in depiction post turn, and remarkably with rendering turn pick up social portrayal in representation s, biographies of appear scientists became somewhat passee. Although on the trot is commonly agreed guarantee biographies avoid integrate common and organized dimensions strengthen preferable, say publicly approach run through not beyond problems. Solitary problem concerns the element between discipline and non-science, and all over the place the wonder of picture biographer get the picture the scenery of his or show chosen gist. In rendering discussion forfeited the merits of systematic biographies, power point is be significant to give a positive response how farreaching and diversified the schoolroom is, arrange least when it attains to audiences. Although representation standard history deals occur to the believable and uncalledfor of play down individual person of depiction past, thither are besides interesting experiments with complicate non-standard kinds of biography.
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Arabatzis, Theodore. Representing electrons: A history approach let down theoretical entities. Chicago: Univer
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ProgramsSteve Kevan is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, in , and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in , working with Prof. David Shirley. In his thesis work he pioneered the photoelectron diffraction technique for determining adsorbate surface structures and applied this to study sulfur, selenium, and CO adsorbed on low index single crystal nickel surfaces.
After completing his PhD, Kevan accepted a position as Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he worked for 6 that time, he developed and used new instrumentation for performing high resolution angle-resolved photoemission at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National focused in particular on high resolution studies of intrinsic surface states on metal and semiconductor surfaces, discovering and characterizing many new states. In his final years at Bell Labs, Kevan collaborated with Larry Dubois to apply an old idea called 'dispersion compensation' to a new high resolution electron scattering spectrometer.
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Famous Scientists and broad coverage:Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography - Features deceased scientists from ancient times through the 21st Century. Signed articles. Some portraits in black and white. Bibliographies. Index by specialty. Online version of Dictionary of Scientific Biography and New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Print editions held at Marx Library, Medical/Historical Library, and SML Starr Main Reference Room.
ORBIS - Online Catalog (books and journals in the Yale University Library System) To find biographies or autobiographies for an individual, enter the person's name in Orbis Advanced search keyword box. An example book is: Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian by EF Rivinius and EM Youssef. Library Shelving Facility QH31 B17 R58X For collective science biography enter a keyword search such as scientists biography or biologists biography. Some biographical indexes are also available which cover entries in collective science biography. These books may be found in Orbis by entering a keyword search such as science bio-bibliography indexes.
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. 2 volumes Editors: R