Kathryn Olesko
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American historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kathryn Mary Olesko is an American historian of science. She is an associate professor at Georgetown University, where she is affiliated with the Science, Technology and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service, the Department of History, and the Department of German. Her research interests include the history of science in Germany and the history of science teaching.
Kathryn Olesko's Published Works
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- Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Konigsberg Seminar for Physics. (1991) (88)
- Science Pedagogy as a Category of Historical Analysis: Past, Present, and Future (2006) (45)
- Tacit Knowledge and School Formation (1993) (36)
- Science in Germany : the intersection of institutional and intellectual issues (1989) (18)
- Precision, Tolerance, and Consensus: Local Cultures in German and British Resistance Standards (1996) (16)
- Physics Instruction in Prussian Secondary Schools before 1859 (1989) (15)
- 2. Experiment, Quantification, and Discovery: Helmholtz's Early Physiological Researches, 1843-50 (1993) (13)
- German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917: German Models, American Ways: The “New Movement” among American Physics Teachers, 1905-1909 (1995) (11)
- Introduction: Clio Meets Science (2012) (9)
- The emergence of theoretical physics in Germany : Franz Neumann & the Königsberg School of Physics, 1830-1890 (1980) (8)
- Physics as a Calling (2020) (6)
- Physics and Metrology (2013) (5)
- Civic Culture and Calling in the Königsberg Period (1994) (4)
- The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier: The Built World, Logistical Power, and Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Polish Partitions, 1772–1806 (2020) (4)
- THE MEANING OF PRECISION: (2020) (3)
- Science Education in the Historical Study of the Sciences (2014) (3)
- Myth 25. That Science Has Been Largely a Solitary Enterprise (2015) (2)
- Michelson and the reform of physics instruction at the naval academy in the 1870s (2008) (2)
- Employment Trends in History of Science (1981) (2)
- History and the History of Science Redux: A Preface (2002) (2)
- Geopolitics & Prussian technical education in the late-eighteenth century (2009) (1)
- The Century of Science (2007) (1)
- Science in Germany (1)
- The World We Have Lost (2007) (1)
- THE IMAGES OF PRECISION: (2020) (1)
- Aesthetic Precision (2007) (1)
- The politics of fin-de-siècle physics pedagogy in Europe (1998) (1)
- Teaching the History of Science. Michael Shortland and Andrew Warwick, Eds. British Society for the History of Science and Basil Blackwell, New York, 1989. viii, 281 pp. $29.95. Based on a conference, Oxford, U.K., 1987. (1990) (1)
- Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982) $40.00. (1984) (0)
- Nobelists and company. (1992) (0)
- When instruments disappear from view (2002) (0)
- Coming to Terms with the Past: The Great Transition (2017) (0)
- Republics of science. (1991) (0)
- L. Pearce Williams (1927–2015) (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Max Planck. A Bibliography of His Non-Technical Writings Henry Lowood; William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg. A Bibliography of Their Non-Technical Writings Henry Lowood; Ernest Rutherford. A Bibliography of His Non-Technical Writings Henry Lowood (1981) (0)
- Introduction (1989) (0)
- Science in Germany (0)
- LECTURE SERIES ,S PRING AND FALL 2006 COMPETING MODERNITIES: GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES, 1890—PRESENT (2006) (0)
- The Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx. Karl Marx , C. Aronson , M. Meo (1984) (0)
- Clio meets science (2012) (0)
- Book Review:The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present Thomas Bender (1991) (0)
- Book Review:Social History of Nineteenth-Century Mathematics Herbert Mehrtens, Henk Bos, Ivo Schneider (1983) (0)
- Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception (2022) (0)
- Ludwik Fleck, Alfred Schutz, and Trust in Science: The Public Responsibility of Science Education in Challenging Times (2020) (0)
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