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  1. Introduction: Physics, Technology, and Technics during the Interwar Period

    Article • Science in Context, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Shaul Katzir

  2. The Shaping of Interwar Physics by Technology: The Case of Piezoelectricity

    Article • Science in Context, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Shaul Katzir

  3. Who knew piezoelectricity? Rutherford and Langevin on submarine detection and the invention of sonar

    Article • Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, March 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Shaul Katzir

  4. Analogy, extension, and novelty: Young Schrödinger on electric phenomena in solids

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, February 2011, Elsevier

    Shaul Katzir

  5. Der Komet in der Entladungsröhre Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm Foerster und die Elektrizität im Weltraum - by Michael Hedenus

    Article • Centaurus, May 2010, Brepols Publishers NV

    Shaul Katzir

  6. Hermann Aron's Electricity Meters: Physics and Invention in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany

    Article • Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, November 2009, University of California Press

    Shaul Katzir

  7. War and Peacetime Research on the Road to Crystal Frequency Control

    Article • Technology and Culture, January 2009, Project Muse

    Shaul Katzir

  8. From ultrasonic to frequency standards: Walter Cady’s discovery of the sharp resonance of crystals

    Article • Archive for History of Exact Sciences, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaul Katzir

  9. Thermodynamic deduction versus quantum revolution: The failure of Richardson's theory of the photoelectric effect

    Article • Annals of Science, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Shaul Katzir

  10. THE BEGINNINGS OF PIEZOELECTRICITY

    Article • January 2006

    Shaul Katzir

  11. Poincaré’s Relativistic Physics: Its Origins and Nature

    Article • Physics in Perspective, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaul Katzir

  12. On “the electromagnetic world-view”: A comment on an article by Suman Seth

    Article • Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, September 2005, University of California Press

    Shaul Katzir

  13. Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaul Katzir

  14. The emergence of the principle of symmetry in physics

    Article • Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, September 2004, University of California Press

    Shaul Katzir

  15. Measuring constants of nature: confirmation and determination in piezoelectricity

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, December 2003, Elsevier

    Shaul Katzir

  16. The Discovery of the Piezoelectric Effect

    Article • Archive for History of Exact Sciences, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shaul Katzir

  17. From explanation to description: Molecular and phenomenological theories of piezoelectricity

    Article • Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, January 2003, University of California Press

    Shaul Katzir