Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are co

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are co

This book sheds new light on the biographical approach in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, institutions, and concepts.

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a too