Roberto Lalli
Professore/Professoressa a contratto
- SSD: M-STO/05 - storia della scienza e delle tecniche
- ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5854-3484
Prodotti della ricerca selezionati
Monograph
- Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community during the Cold War (Cham: Springer, 2017).
Edited Volume
- (with Alexander Blum and Jürgen Renn) The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, volume in the Einstein Studies series (Boston: Birkhäuser, in press, autumn 2020). https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030507534
Edited Special Issues
- (with Matthew Adamson) Global Perspectives on Science Diplomacy, selected as Centaurus special issue (to be published in January 2021)
- (with Alexander Blum, Domenico Giulini, Jürgen Renn) The renaissance of Einstein’s theory of gravitation, special issue of European Physical Journal H, 42 (2017)
Articles in refereed journals
- “Crafting Europe from CERN to Dubna: Physics as diplomacy in the foundation of the European Physical Society” Centaurus (in press, planned for January 2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12304
- (with Simone Turchetti) “Envisioning a “science diplomacy 2.0: On data, global challenges and multi-layered networks” Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (formerly Palgrave Communications), under revision.
- Corresponding author (with Matthew Adamson) “Global Perspectives on Science Diplomacy: Diplomatic history and history of science in dialogue” Centaurus (in press, planned for January 2021).
- First and corresponding author (with Riaz Howey and Dirk Wintergrün) “The dynamics of collaboration network and the history of general relativity, 1925-1970.” Scientometrics 122: 1129:1170 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-019-03327-1
- “A brief history of physics reviews.” Nature Reviews Physics 1 (2019), pp. 12-14.
- Corresponding author (with Alexander Blum and Jürgen Renn) “Gravitational Waves and the Long Relativity Revolution.” Nature Astronomy 2 (2018): 534-543.
- Corresponding author (with Alexander Blum, Domenico Giulini and Jürgen Renn) Editorial introduction to the special issue "The Renaissance of Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation". European Physical Journal H, 42(2) (2017): 95-105. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2017-80023-3.
- Corresponding author (with Alexander Blum and Jürgen Renn) “The Renaissance of General Relativity: How and Why it Happened.” Annalen der Physik 528 (2016): 344-349. Corresponding author.
- “‘Dirty work’ but someone has to do it: Howard P. Robertson and the refereeing practices of Physical Review in the 1930s.” Notes and Records: The Royal Society journal of history of science 70 (2016): 151-174.
- (with Alexander Blum and Jürgen Renn) “The Reinvention of General Relativity: A Historiographical Framework for Assessing One Hundred Years of Curved Space-time.” Isis 106 (2015): 598-620.
- “A New Scientific Journal Takes the Scene: The Birth of Reviews of Modern Physics.” Annalen der Physik 526 (2014): A83-87.
- “Anti-Relativity in Action: The Scientific Activity of Herbert E. Ives between 1937 and 1953.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 43 (2013): 41-104.
- “The Reception of Miller’s Ether-Drift Experiments in the USA: The History of a Controversy in Relativity Revolution.” Annals of Science, 69 (2012): 153-214.
- “Effetto Sagnac (1913): Storia di un mancato dibattito nella Francia degli anni ’20.” [The Sagnac Effect (1913): History of a Missing Debate in France during the 1920s]. Quaderni di Storia della Fisica, 17 (2011): 47-81 (in Italian).
Chapters in books
- Corresponding author (with Alexander Blum and Jürgen Renn) “The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context: A Historiographical Review,” in The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, A. Blum, R. Lalli, J. Renn (Boston: Birkhäuser, in press).
- Corresponding author (with Riaz Howey and Dirk Wintergrün) “Socio-Epistemic Networks of general relativity, 1925-1970,” in The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, A. Blum, R. Lalli, J. Renn (Boston: Birkhäuser, in press).
- “The multiple lives of the general relativity community, 1955-1974.” In Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Institutions, and Objects, edited by C. Forstner and M. Walker (Springer, 2020), pp. 179-202.
- “Hunting for the luminiferous ether: The revival of the Michelson-Morley experiment in the 1920s.” In Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Antagonizing Object in the Early Twentieth Century, edited by Jaume Navarro (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 155-178.
- (with Dirk Wintergrün, Jürgen Renn, Manfred Laubichler, Matteo Valleriani) “Netzwerke als Wissensspeicher.” In Die Zukunft der Wissensspeicher: Forschen, Sammeln und Vermitteln im 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Jürgen Mittelstraß. (Konstanz: Konstanzer Wissenschaftsforum, Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 2016), pp. 35-79.
- “‘The Renaissance of Physics’: Karl K. Darrow (1891-1982) and the Dissemination of Quantum Theory at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.” In A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies, edited by R. Pisano (Springer: Dordrecht, 2015), pp. 249-273.
Contributions in Conference Proceedings
- First and corresponding author (with Dirk Wintergrün) “Toward a computational history of science: The dynamics of socio-epistemic networks and the renaissance of general relativity.” In Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia. Atti del XXXIX Convegno Annuale (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2020, in press). [OA]
- “Patterns to scientific internationalism: What can a comparative history of IAU and IUPAP teach us?” In Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 349, 2018, edited by D. Valls-Gabaud, J. Hearnshaw, & C. Sterken (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 189-196.
- (with Luisa Bonolis and Adele La Rana) “The renaissance of general relativity in Rome: Main actors, research programs and institutional structures.” In 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings (World Scientific 2018), pp. 3372-3377.
- “The Interplay of Theoretical Assumptions and Experimental Practice in the History of 20th-Century Ether-Drift Experiments.” In Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia. Atti del XXXIII Convegno Annuale (Pavia: Pavia University Press, 2016), pp.343-360. [OA]
- “‘Geometry as a Branch of Physics’: Philosophy at Work in Howard Percy Robertson’s contribution to Relativity Theories.” In New Directions in Logic and the Philosophy of Science, edited by L. Felline, A. Ledda, F. Paoli, E. Rossanese (Milton Keynes: College Publications, 2016), pp. 279-289.
- “Confirming Relativity in Spite of Himself: The Origin of the Ives-Stilwell Experiment.” In Physics, Astronomy and Engineering. Critical Problems in the History of Science. International 32nd Congress for The SISFA–Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy, edited by Pisano, D. Capecchi and A. Lukešová (Šiauliai, Lithuania: Scientia Socialis UAB & Scientific Methodical Centre Scientia Educologica Press Šiauliai University, 2013), pp. 298-304.
- “L’anti-relativismo negli USA. Uno Studio preliminare sui principali attori: Dayton C. Miller, Herbert E. Ives, Charles L. Poor” [Anti-Relativity in the USA: A preliminary analysis on the main actors: Dayton C. Miller, Herbert E. Ives, Charles L. Poor]. In Atti del XXX Congresso della SISFA, edited by R. Mantovani (Urbino: Argalia Editore, 2012), pp. 203-12 (in Italian).
- “Dayton C. Miller’s Ether-Drift Experiments.” InThe Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010, edited by A. Roca-Rosell (Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC, 2012), pp. 1093-1100.
- “G. M. M. Sagnac e la difesa dell’etere di Fresnel” [ M. M. Sagnac and the defence of Fresnel’s ether]. In Intorno a Galileo: La Storia della Fisica e il Punto di Svolta Galileiano. Vol. 9 of Quaderni del CE.R.CO., edited by E. Giannetto, G. Giannini, and M. Toscano (Rimini: Guaraldi, 2011), pp. 146-57 (in Italian).
- “The Sagnac Effect: A Historical Study of the Discovery and of Its Earlier Interpretations.” In Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology: Proceedings of the III International Congress of the European Society for the History of Science, edited by H. Hunger, F. Seebacher, and G. Holzer, (Wien, Austrian Academy of Science Press, 2010), pp. 963-71.
Book Reviews
- “Review of Dominique Lambert: The Atom of the Universe: The Life and Work of Georges Lemaître.” Physics in Perspective 21 (2019): 87-90
- “Review of Harry Collins: Gravity’s Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves.” Isis 109 (2018): 885-887.
- “Reviews of Marcia Bartusiak. Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved.; Andrew Robinson; Diana Kormos Buchwald. Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity.” Isis 107 (2016): 881-883
- “Review of Cathryn Carson: Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.” Centaurus, 57 (2015): 260-261.
- “Einstein as founding father of quantum theory. Review of Douglas A. Stone: Einstein and the quantum: The search of the valiant Swabian, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.” Metascience, 24 (2015): 119-122.
Other Publications
- “Onde gravitazionali e teoria della relatività generale: una storia complessa,” Il Giornale di Astronomia 45 (2019): 19-28.
- (with Dirk Wintergrün) Networks of Knowledge in the History of science: Epistemological and methodological perspectives. MPIWG preprint series (in preparation).
- “La Rinascita della Relatività Generale nel Secondo Dopoguerra.” Il Giornale di Astronomia, 42 (2016): 32-37. [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Philip Warren Anderson.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-anderson [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: John Bardeen.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-bardeen [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Leon Neil Cooper.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-cooper [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Leo Esaki.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-esaki [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Ivar Giaever.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-giaever [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Werner Heisenberg.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-heisenberg [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-raman [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Brian D. Josephson.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-josephson [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Nevill F. Mott.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-mott [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: John R. Schrieffer.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2015), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-schrieffer [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: James W. Cronin.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-cronin [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Val L. Fitch.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-fitch [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Jerome I. Friedman.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-friedman [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Murray Gell-Mann.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-gell-mann [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Sheldon L. Glashow.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-glashow [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: David J. Gross.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-gross [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Gerardus ‘t Hooft.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-t-hooft [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Leon M. Lederman.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/laureates/lederman [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Martin L. Perl.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-perl [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Carlo Rubbia.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-rubbia [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Melvin Schwartz.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-schwartz [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Jack Steinberger.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-steinberger [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Richard E. Taylor.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-taylor [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Samuel Chao-Chung Ting.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-ting [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Simon van der Meer.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-van-der-meer [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Martinus J. G. Veltman.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-veltman [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Steven Weinberg.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-weinberg [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Frank Wilczek.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2014), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-wilczek [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Niels H. D. Bohr.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-bohr [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Tsung-Dao Lee.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-lee [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Julian Schwinger.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-schwinger [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Eugene P. Wigner.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-wigner [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Chen Ning Yang.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-yang [OA]
- “Scientific Biography: Hideki Yukawa.” Lindau Nobel Mediatheque (2013), http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-yukawa [OA]
Attività in agenda
Ricevimento studenti
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