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Allan Franklin
Visiting Fellow
Spring 1986
University of Colorado, Boulder

June 2008

Book
Franklin, A., A. W. F. Edwards, D. J. Fairbanks, et al. (2008). Ending the Mendel Fisher Controversy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Articles
Franklin, A. (2007). The Role of Experiments in the Natural Sciences: Examples from Physics and Biology. General Philsophy of Science: Focal Issues. T. A. F. Kuipers. Amsetrdam: Elsevier: 219-274.

Franklin, A. (2008). The Mendel-Fisher Controversy: An Overview. Ending the Mendel Fisher Controversy. A. Franklin, A. W. F. Edwards, D. J. Fairbanks, L. H. Hartwell and T. Seidenfeld. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press: 1-77.

Franklin, A. (2008). "Commentary on Peter Galison's "The Discovery of the Muon and the Failed Revolution against Quantum Electrodynamics." Centaurus50 (162-165).

 

2016 Update

The past year has been quite eventful. In June 2015 I retired as professor of physics at the University of Colorado. I still have an office in the department and I am continuing my research. I was awarded the 2016 Abraham Pais Prize for history of physics by the American Physical Society. My latest book, What Makes a Good Experiment? was published this year by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Springer published a second edition of my book, The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force, now co-authored with Ephraim Fischbach. The new edition includes an essay by me updating things since the book was initially published in 1993. It also includes a long personal account by Ephraim Fischbach on how he came to propose the Fifth Force hypothesis. An article I wrote, “Physics Textbooks Don’t Always Tell the Truth,” appeared in Physics in Perspective.

 

 

 

 
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