Helge Kragh

Helge Stjernholm Kragh (born February 13, 1944) is a Danish historian of science.

Biography

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 emeritus at the Centre for Science Studies of Aarhus University.(see http://css.au.dk/en/academic-staff/).

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.

Honors and awards

• President, European Society for the History of Science 2008–2010^[1]
• Member, European Academy of Sciences^[2]
• Member, Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (corresponding member since 1995, full member since 2005)^[3]
• Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters^[4]

Selected writings

• Dirac– a scientific biography. Cambridge University Press 1990, 2005, ISBN 0521017564
• Quantum Generations – a history of physics in the 20. Century. Princeton University Press, 1999
• An introduction to the historiography of Science. Cambridge University Press, 1987
• Matter and Spirit in the Universe – scientific and religious preludes to modern cosmology. 2004
• Conceptions of Cosmos – from myth to the accelerating universe. Oxford University Press, 2006
• Cosmology and Controversy – the historical development of two theories of the universe. Princeton University Press, 1999
• The Moon that wasn't – the saga of Venus' spurious satellite. Birkhäuser, 2008
• Entropy Creation – religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology. Ashgate, London 2008
• Editor (with David Knight): The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789–1914. Cambridge University Press, 1998
• with Peter C. Kjargaard, Henry Nielsen: Science in Denmark- through a thousand years. Aarhus University Press, 2009
• List of Kragh's publication at Aarhus University

References

External links

• Homepage in Aarhus
• Homepage at the Niels Bohr Institute