Helge Stjernholm Kragh

Helge Stjernholm Kragh

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2024
  2. Published

    Chain reaction: A chemical word and its history

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, May 2024, In: Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. 49, 1, p. 62-70

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    A new literary style of science: The rise of acronyms in physics and astronomy

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 24 Mar 2024, In: Physics in Perspective. 25, p. 175-198 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2024, In: Nature. 627, 8005, p. 726-728

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. 2023
  6. Published

    Poincaré and cosmic space: Curved or not?

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 27 Oct 2023, In: Philosophia Scientiae. 27, 2, p. 53-71 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. 2022
  8. Published

    Chemists without knowing it? Computational chemistry and the Møller-Plesset pertubation theory

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2 Sep 2022, In: Substantia. 6, 2, p. 43-54

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Biographical histories of chemistry

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Aug 2022, In: Ambix. 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  10. Published

    Brecht, Galileo, and Møller: A view from Copenhagen, 1938-1939

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 18 Jul 2022, In: Physics in Perspective. 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    A terminological history of early elementary particle physics

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2022, In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 77, p. 73-120 48 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Helmholtz and energy conservation reconsidered

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2022, In: Metascience. 31, p. 21-24

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  13. Published

    Philosophical Contexts of the Steady-State Universe

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2022, In: HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. 12, 1, p. 129-145 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. 2021
  15. Published

    Chemical and other aspects of Rutherford’s nuclear atom

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2021, In: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 51, 3-4, p. 513-527

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. 2020
  17. Published

    Foton – nové vyjasněni starého pojmu

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jul 2020, In: Cesoslovenky Casopis pro Fyziku. 70, p. 173-179

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  18. Published

    Review of: V. Fages, Savantes nébuleuses (Paris: 2018)

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Apr 2020, In: Centaurus. 61, p. 453-455

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  19. Published

    The periodic system and the idea of a chemical element: From Mendeleev to superheavy elements

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Apr 2020, In: Centaurus. 61, p. 329-344

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Cosmology and religion

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jan 2020, In: Encyclopedia of the history of science. p. 1-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. 2019
  22. Published

    Controversial elements: Priority disputes and the discovery of chemical elements

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 18 Dec 2019, In: Substantia. 3, 2, p. 79-90

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Julius Thomsen (1826-1909) and his contributions to thermochemistry, atomic theory, and the nature of chemical elements

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 17 Dec 2019, In: ChemTexts. 6, 9 p., 4.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    EINSTEIN'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 1 Dec 2019, In: American Scientist. 107, 6, p. 374-376

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Varying constants of nature: Fragments of a history

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 29 Nov 2019, In: Physics in Perspective. p. 1-17 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    A realist's vision of the quantum world

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Oct 2019, In: American Scientist. 107, p. 374-376

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  27. Published

    Hermann Helmholtz from A to Z

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Aug 2019, In: Metascience. p. 1-3 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  28. Published

    Light propagation in and outside a sphere illuminated by plane waves of light

    Lorenz, L., Revall Frisvad, J. (Translator) & Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jul 2019, In: European Physical Journal H. 59 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    On Ludvig Lorenz and his 1890 treatise on light scattering by spheres

    Revall Frisvad, J. & Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jul 2019, In: European Physical Journal H. 44, 2, p. 137-160 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Plenitude philosophy and chemical elements

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jun 2019, In: HYLE - International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry. 25, 1, p. 1-20

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Elemente mit System

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Mar 2019, In: Physik Journal. 18, 3, p. 53-57

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  32. 2018
  33. Published

    The Lorenz-Lorentz formula: Origin and early history

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Oct 2018, In: Substantia. 2, 2, p. 7-18

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    The Lorenz number and the Lorenz gauge – known concepts, unknown physicist

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Aug 2018, In: Annalen der Physik. 530, 9, 4 p., 1800204.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Ludvig Lorenz and his non-Maxwellian electrical theory of light

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Jul 2018, In: Physics in Perspective. 20, 3, p. 221-253 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Georges Lemaitre, pioneer of modern theoretical cosmology

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 16 Jun 2018, In: Foundations of Physics. 48, 10, p. 1333-1348 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Review of Wilhelm Ostwald. The Autobiography

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Apr 2018, In: Ambix. 2018, p. 1-2 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  38. 2017
  39. Published

    A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Dec 2017, In: Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 42, 2, p. 141-143

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  40. Published

    On the ontology of superheavy elements

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Oct 2017, In: Substantia. 1, 2, p. 7-17

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Accepted/In press

    The search for superheavy elements: Historical and philosophical perspectives

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 15 Aug 2017, (Accepted/In press) In: arXiv.org: Physics.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  42. Published

    The Nobel Prize system and the astronomical sciences

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Aug 2017, In: Journal for the History of Astronomy. 48, p. 257-280

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Accepted/In press

    Cosmology and the origin of the universe: Historical and conceptual perspectives

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 5 Jun 2017, (Accepted/In press) In: arXiv.org: Physics.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  44. Published

    ’Let the stars shine in peace!’: Niels Bohr and stellar energy, 1929-1934

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, May 2017, In: Annals of Science. 74, 2, p. 126-148 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    Is the universe expanding? Fritz Zwicky and early tired-light hypotheses

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Apr 2017, In: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. 20, 1, p. 2-12

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. 2016
  47. Published

    The source of solar energy, ca. 1840-1910: From meteoric hypothesis to radioactive speculations

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 31 Oct 2016, In: European Physical Journal H. 41, p. 365-394

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Bohr’s Quantum Philosophy: Unity and Continuity in Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Physics

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 1 Oct 2016, In: Science & Education. 25, 7-8, p. 937-938

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 1 Sep 2016, In: Physics in Perspective. 18, 3, p. 351-354

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    Review of: F. Aaserud and J. Heilbron, Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Bohr’s 1913 Trilogy Revisited (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 5 Aug 2016, In: Physics in Perspective. 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  51. Published

    The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 8 Jul 2016, In: Ambix. 63, 1, p. 74-75 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  52. Published

    From cosmochemistry to fuel cells: Notes on Emil Baur, physical chemist

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Apr 2016, In: Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 50, 2, p. 74-85

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  53. 2015
  54. Published

    A cosmologist’s excursion into geophysics

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Dec 2015, In: Astronomy & Geophysics. 56, p. 6.15-6.17

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  55. Published

    Generel relativitet: Træk af udviklingen 1920-1970

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Dec 2015, In: Kvant. 4, p. 11-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  56. Published

    The Twilight of the Scientific Age, Martín López Corredoira

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 1 Nov 2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 52, p. 369-370

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  57. Published

    Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Nov 2015, In: Physics Today. 68, 11, p. 53-54

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  58. Published

    Georgius Frommius (1605-1651) and Danish astronomy in the post-Tychonian era

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 22 May 2015, In: Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum . 3, 1, p. 43-66

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  59. Published

    Pascual Jordan, varying gravity, and the expanding Earth

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 21 Apr 2015, In: Physics in Perspective. 17, 2, p. 107-134

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  60. Published

    The Quantum Dissidents: Olival Freire Jr. (2015) The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 29 Mar 2015, In: Science & Education. 24, 9-10, p. 1237-1239 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  61. Published

    Convenções e ordem da natureza: Algumas perspectivas históricas

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: Amazonia. 11, p. 5-22

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  62. Published

    Expanding Earth and declining gravity: A chapter in the recent history of geophysics

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 6, p. 45-55

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  63. Published

    Kreationisme i Europa

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: Slagmark. 72, p. 212-214

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  64. Published

    La génesis de la teoría de electrones de Dirac

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: Revista de Filosofia. 137, p. 107 147 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  65. Published

    Mathematics and physics: The idea of a pre-established harmony

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: Science & Education. 24, p. 515-527

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  66. Published

    Review of: Christoph Ribbat, Flickering Light. A History of Neon (Reaktion Books: Great Sutton, 2013).

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, 2015, In: Ambix. 62, 2, p. 196-197

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

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