Olivier Darrigol, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: SPHERE
Olivier Darrigol studied physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the history and philosophy of physics at the Sorbonne and at UC-Berkeley's Office for History of Science and Technology (OHST). He is the author of several books on the history of quantum physics, electrodynamics, hydrodynamics, and optics. He is currently a member of the SPHere research team at CNRS/Paris 7, and a Research Associate at UC-Berkeley's OHST.
PART A: Preliminaries 1. Life and work: A sketch 2. Theories of heat: Some background PART B: Exegesis 3. Constructing thermal equilibrium (1866-1871) 4. The Boltzmann equation and the H theorem (1872-1875) 5. The probabilistic turn (1876-1884) 6. The analogical turn (1884-1887) 7. Consolidation (1887-1895) 8. The critical turn (1895-1899) 9. Lectures on gas theory (1896-1898) PART C: Synthetic Reflections 10. Boltzmann's theory
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