Otto Sibum
German historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Heinz Otto Sibum is a German historian of science, Hans Rausing Professor and Director of the Office for History of Science at the University of Uppsala. Biography H. Otto Sibum holds a doctoral degree in physics from Oldenburg University and his habilitation in history from the TU Braunschweig . He has been Director of Research at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin as well as Research Associate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University . He was awarded best teacher at British Universities for his teaching of history of science at Cambridge University and has received various scholarly awards like the Paul-Bunge-Prize for the best publication in history of science, as well as the scientific excellence grant from the Max Planck Society, Germany . He was a visiting researcher and professor at various institutions: Cambridge University, Tel Aviv University, Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris , visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science and at Si-Mian Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at East China Normal University, Shanghai .
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- Reworking the mechanical value of heat: Instruments of precision and gestures of accuracy in early Victorian England (1995) (140)
- Introduction: Scientific Personae and Their Histories (2003) (109)
- Instruments, travel and science : itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (2002) (102)
- The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture (2010) (44)
- AHR Conversation : Historians and the Study of Material Culture (2009) (33)
- From the Library to the Laboratory and Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for Historians of Science (2016) (30)
- Experimental History of Science (2000) (19)
- Experimentalists in the Republic of Letters (2003) (17)
- What Kind of Science Is Experimental Physics? (2004) (14)
- Working Experiments : A history of Gestural Knowledge (1995) (8)
- The Information Order of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica : The Hans Rausing Lecture 2008 (2008) (8)
- Empires of Physics. A guide to the Exhibition. (1993) (7)
- Shifting Scales. Microstudies in Early Victorian Britain (2001) (7)
- Narrating by Numbers. Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences (2003) (7)
- Introduction: Observatory Techniques in Nineteenth-Century Science and Society (2020) (6)
- Science and the Changing Senses of Reality circa 1900 (2008) (6)
- Integrating the history of science into broader discussions of research integrity and fraud (2020) (5)
- A History of Facts (2001) (4)
- The Golden Number of the Century: A History of a Scientific Fact. (2001) (3)
- Working Experiments: Bodies, Machines and Heat Values. (1994) (3)
- Neo-Classical Aesthetics of Art and Science : Hermann Helmholtz and the Frog Drawing Machine (2008) (3)
- Instruments, Travel and Science : Itineraries of Precision from the 17th to the 20th Century (2002) (3)
- The number of the century : a history of a scientific fact (2006) (2)
- Inventing Coulomb's Law: 'une balance electrique' or the material culture of French enlightened rationality. (2012) (2)
- Machines, Bats, and Scholars: Experimental Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (2008) (2)
- Evelyn Fox Keller; Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent Activity of Matter : The Hans Rausing Lecture 2009 (2009) (1)
- When is enough enough? Accurate measurement and the integrity of scientific research (2020) (1)
- The Bookkeeper of Nature : Benjamin Franklin's Electrical Research and the Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (1993) (1)
- Science and the Knowing Body: Making Sense of Embodied Knowledge in Scientific Experiment. (2020) (1)
- An old hand in a new system (1998) (1)
- What kind of science is biology (2004) (0)
- Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus (1998) (0)
- Introduction: Instruments Travel and Science (2002) (0)
- Science and Knowledge in the Long 19 th Century (2013) (0)
- Exploring the margins of precision (2002) (0)
- Personae and Their Histories (2003) (0)
- Integrating research integrity into the history of science (2020) (0)
- Providing Evidence: C.A. Coulomb’s “Balance Électrique” and the Culture of French Enlightened Rationality (2021) (0)
- Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics? (2004) (0)
- Joule, James and Robert Mayer (2003) (0)
- Steven Shapin, Changing Tastes: How Things Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Tase Now. : (2011) (0)
- The Joy of Invention (2019) (0)
- The friction of fluids: making sense of experiment (2001) (0)
- Experience - Experiment : The Changing Experiential Basis of Physics (2004) (0)
- Science and the Knowing Body: (2020) (0)
- Experiencing Experiment - Gestural Knowledge and Scientific Change in Early 19th Century Victorian Culture" (in Chinese) (2010) (0)
- 1900: The New Age. (1994) (0)
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