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Helge Kragh

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in Denmark

February 13, 1944

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History, Science

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Helge Stjernholm Kragh is a Danish historian of science.
Kragh studied mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen before obtaining his PhD in 1981 at the University of Roskilde. He is a professor at the Centre for Science Studies of Aarhus University.

Kragh's areas of study are the history of physics from the mid-19th century onward, the history of astronomy, the history of cosmology and the history of chemistry. ...more

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	Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology 4.45 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century 4.02 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sandhed 3.26 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simply Dirac (Great Lives Book 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmology and Controversy 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to the Historiography of Science 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirac: A Scientific Biography 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den sære historie om Venus' måne - og andre naturvidenskabelige fortællinger 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 opdagelser - højdepunkter i naturvidenskaben by Helge Kragh, Morten A. Skydsgaard, Tobias Wang 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie (4 books)
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“Alfvén dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...”
― Helge Kragh, Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology

tags: alfven, atheism, atheist, hannes-alfven, hannes-alfvén, myth, nobel-laureate, science

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“Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds,” Feynman is supposed to have said.”
― Helge Kragh, Simply Dirac

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“Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure.”
― Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

tags: fine-structure-constant, history-of-physics, history-of-science

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