Roger H. Stuewer

Roger Harry Stuewer (September 12, 1934 – July 28, 2022) was an American historian of physics.

Education and career

Stuewer was born in Shawano, Wisconsin on September 12, 1934.[1]

Stuewer received from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958 a B.S. in physics education, in 1964 an M.S. in physics, and in 1968 a Ph.D. in the history of science and physics. In the 1958–1959 academic year, he taught high school physics and mathematics in Germantown, Wisconsin. From 1960 to 1962 he was an instructor in physics at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. At the University of Minnesota, he was an assistant professor from 1967 to 1970 and an associate professor in 1970–1971. For the academic year 1971–1972 he was an associate professor in the history of science at Boston University. At the University of Minnesota, Stuewer was an associate professor from 1972–1974 and a full professor from 1974 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2000. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Munich (1981–1982), Vienna (1989), Graz (1989), and Amsterdam (1998). He was a co-founder of the journal Physics in Perspective and was its co-editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2013.[2]

Stuewer died in his home in New Brighton on July 28, 2022, aged 87.[3]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Books

  • Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, ed. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970); reprinted in Roger Hahn, ed., Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. I (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1989). ISBN 2-88124-350-9
  • The Compton Effect: Turning Point in Physics (New York: Science History Publications, 1975).[5] ISBN 978-0882020129
  • Nuclear Physics in Retrospect: Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930s, ed. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979). ISBN 978-0816608690
  • Springs of Scientific Creativity, ed. with R. Aris and H. T. Davis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983).[6] ISBN 978-0816668304
  • The Michelson Era in American Science 1870-1930, ed. with Stanley Goldberg (New York: American Institute of Physics [AIP Conference Proceedings 179], 1988).[7] ISBN 978-0883183793
  • The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert, ed. with Mary Jo Nye and Joan L. Richards (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992). 2012 ebook ISBN 978-94-011-2488-1
  • The Emergence of Modern Physics: Proceedings of a Conference Commemorating a Century of Physics, Berlin 22-24 March 1995, ed. with Dieter Hoffmann and Fabio Bevilacqua (Pavia: Università degli Studi di Pavia, 1996). ISBN 978-88-7830-246-4
  • The Physical Tourist: A Science Guide for the Traveler, ed. with John S. Rigden (Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2009). ISBN 978-3764389321
  • The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars (Oxford, UK & New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0191866586[8]

Articles and book chapters

References

  1. ^ "Roger H. Stuewer Papers, 1921-1970s". October 9, 2013.
  2. ^ Roger H. Stuewer, C.V., physics.umn.edu
  3. ^ Michel Janssen; Alan Shapiro. "Remembering Roger Stuewer". University of Minnesota. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  4. ^ "2013 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Recipient, Roger H. Stuewer". American Physical Society website.
  5. ^ Kuhn, Thomas S. (1976). "Review of The Compton Effect: Turning Point in Physics by Roger H. Stuewer". American Journal of Physics. 44 (12): 1231–1232. Bibcode:1976AmJPh..44.1231S. doi:10.1119/1.10519. p. 1232
  6. ^ Oppenheimer, Jane (September 1984). "Review of Springs of Scientific Creativity. Essays on Founders of Modern Science edited by Rutherford Aris, H. Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 59 (3): 310–311. doi:10.1086/413915.
  7. ^ Servos, John W. (1990). "Review of The Michelson Era in American Science, 1870-1930 edited by Stanley Goldberg and Roger H. Stuewer". Science. 247 (4945): 985–986. doi:10.1126/science.247.4945.985.a. PMID 17776456.
  8. ^ Reed, Cameron (2019). "Review of The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics Between the First and Second World Wars by Roger H. Stuewer". American Journal of Physics. 87 (1): 78–79. Bibcode:2019AmJPh..87...78R. doi:10.1119/1.5075721. S2CID 126275004.