The Transformation of Physics from 1900 to 1945

Physics in Perspective

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 248-265

  Gingras, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; co citation networks; history of physics 1900 1945

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955987849     PISSN: 14226944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00016-010-0017-6     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. The average number of papers published per author in the period 1900-1945 is about 1. 3 for mathematics, 1. 4 for physics, and 1. 7 for chemistry, figures that are similar to the average of about 1. 6 for physics around 1900; see Paul Forman, John L. Heilbron, and Spencer Weart, "Physics circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishment," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences5 (1975), 1-185; on 119.
2. On the growth of mathematics, see Karen Hunger Parshall and Adrian C. Rice, ed., Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945 (Providence, R. I.: American Mathematical Society, 2002).
3. On the rise of American physics, see Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977; Second Edition Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1995); and Spencer R. Weart, "The Physics Business in America, 1919-1940: A Statistical Reconnaissance," in Nathan Reingold, ed., The Sciences in the American Contetxt: New Perspectives (Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979), pp. 295-358.
4. Yves Gingras, "Mapping the Changing Centrality of Physicists (1900-1944)," in Daniel Torres-Salinas and Henk F. Moed, ed., Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) (Madrid, Spain, 2007), pp. 314-320.
5. Matthew L Wallace, Yves Gingras, and Russell Duhon, "A New Approach for Detecting Scientific Specialties From Raw Cocitation Networks," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology60, No. 2 (2009), 240-246.