Titlebook: Biographies in the History of Physics; Actors, Objects, Ins Christian Forstner,Mark Walker Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Introduction,d by this genre. Thomas Hankins, who arguably began a historiographic discussion of the role of biography in the history of science with an essay entitled “In Defense of Biography,” noted that: “The biographer of a scientist tends to be drawn either to the personal life of his subject or to the tech

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The ‘Invisible Hand’ of Carl Friedrich Gauß—Retracing the Life of Moritz Meyerstein, a 19th century ns. This chapter briefly summarizes my approach toward writing a documentary biography of this figure—the three-hundred-page book appeared as Volume 52 of the series . in 2005. My account can be read in a variety of ways: as a document-based biography of an excellent instrument maker from the ninete

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The Personal is Professional: Margaret Maltby’s Life in Physics together fragments and interrogating the silences of the archive. The record of Maltby’s life reveals her active and ongoing work to manage her personal and professional lives. Even years after her death, the formation and maintenance of the archival silences reveal that the same balance achieved i