Homepage of Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel
Since Oct. 1, 2007: Director of the Section for History of Science and Technology in the History Department of the University of Stuttgart,
since Oct. 15, 2007: substitute director of the History Dept.,
since March 1, 2010: substitute dean (Prodekan) of the Humanities Faculty,
and since Oct. 2010 Director of the History Department.
Main
Research Interests:
- Comparative history of science and technology
- History of materials science (esp. disciplinary status, materials testing, and metallography)
- Research Technologies (esp. applied laser research; future research project; conference 2011 & anthology 2012)
- Visual science cultures – a comparative analysis (current book project)
- Prosopography & networks of scientific illustrators 1450-1950 (freely accessible internet-based database DSI)
- Invisible hands in physics research practice (anthology 2008 and monograph on Gauß’s instrument maker Meyerstein 2005)
- Social networks in the history of science, technology & medicine (currently advisor of several pertinent Ph.D. theses)
- Historical ontology: A systematic study of arguments for the taxonomy of rays ca.1700-1900 (last book)
- Mentality of German physicists shortly after 1945
- Mapping the Spectrum: Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Education
- Interplay of Instrumentation, Experiment and Theory (with case studies on redshift in the solar spectrum, 1880-1960): Habilitation Thesis 1995 and various papers
- Physics and National Socialism: (An Anthology of Primary Texts, 1996)
- Philosophical Interpretations of Relativity Theory (Dissertation 1989, publ. 1990)
- History of Philosophy of Science, esp. Berlin and Vienna Circle as well as Ernst Mach and Pierre Duhem (several research articles)
Please click on the following items:
Publications: Books, Papers and Reviews
Talks given
Teaching in the Past
Current Teaching, click here then follow the link ‘Lehre’
Recent research on the German Physical Society during the NS-period
A brief cv
and other information on Hentschel’s academic activities
Address:
Prof. Dr.rer.nat. habil. Dipl.phys.
Klaus Hentschel M.A.
Universität Stuttgart
Historisches Institut
Abt. für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik
Keplerstraße 17
D-70174 Stuttgart
Tel.: 0711 / 685-82312
Fax: 0711 / 685-82767
E-Mail: Klaus.Hentschel@po.hi.uni-stuttgart.de