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EPJ H - Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physic

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics

Heisenberg's reactor equation and his last reactor project B₈: calculating criticality for a fully tampered cylindrical core

Joseph L. McCauley

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 21

Published online: 01 December 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00111-z

Open Access

Alessandro Serpieri and his seismographs: innovations in late nineteenth-century Italian seismology

Roberto Mantovani

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 20

Published online: 10 October 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00106-w

Mechanical analogy between the second-order Schrödinger equation without potential for the case of a particle in an ideal infinite well with the fourth-order Schrödinger equation in connection with the potential manifestation of negative mass in Bose–Einstein condensates and exciton–polaritons in cavity

David Izabel

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 19

Published online: 07 October 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00110-0

The Manila Observatory and the Italian seismological tradition in the Far East: endogenous meteorology in the Philippine Islands

Josep Batlló

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 18

Published online: 30 September 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00108-8

Open Access

Wheeler the storyteller: on the uses and drawbacks of history for life

Stefano Furlan

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 17

Published online: 24 September 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00109-7

Open Access

Theoretical discovery, experiment, and controversy in the Aharonov-Bohm effect: an oral history interview

Yakir Aharonov and Guy Hetzroni

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 16

Published online: 01 September 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00107-9

Open Access

Unveiling the violent universe (1950–1970), Part 2. The rise of relativistic astrophysics and the new astronomies in the Soviet world

Stefano Furlan and Luisa Bonolis

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 15

Published online: 27 August 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00105-x

Open Access

Unveiling the violent universe (1950–1970). Part I. New cosmic messengers, new astronomies: building a transdisciplinary research culture

Luisa Bonolis and Stefano Furlan

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 14

Published online: 25 August 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00102-0

Father Serpieri, a forerunner of earthquake observation: from the “seismic radiant” to twenty-first century analyses

Gianluca Valensise

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 13

Published online: 07 July 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00101-1

A contextual analysis of the early work of Andrzej Trautman and Ivor Robinson on equations of motion and gravitational radiation

Donald Salisbury and Daniel Kennefick

EPJ H, 50 1 (2025) 12

Published online: 24 June 2025

DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00104-y

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