Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics (Bohr-100 Centennial Celebrations)

Session

Session 7

Aug 8, 2023, 2:00 PM

Novo Nordisk Fonden

33. The Origins of Geophysics in the 19th Century

Gregory A. Good (West Virginia University)

8/8/23, 2:00 PM

34. A ‘guessing science’? Physics, physicists, and modern meteorology

Kristine C. Harper (University of Copenhagen)

8/8/23, 2:25 PM

Despite the interest of natural philosophers-turned-physicists in the physical nature of the atmosphere and the development of instruments to measure it since at least the 16th century, physicists were often not overly enamored of meteorology as a topic of serious merit. Thus, in the US, meteorology was relegated to geography departments and physicists like Theodore von Kármán felt compelled...

35. Constructions of Weather and Climate: Epistemic challenges and shifts in investigating the atmosphere

Matthias Heymann (Aarhus)

8/8/23, 2:50 PM

Efforts to investigate, understand and, eventually, predict weather and climate have changed significantly from the late 18th to the late 20th century. For a long time, physicists struggled and failed to establish a causal understanding of weather and climate based on the laws of physics. Instead, observation and experienced-based research traditions emerged, culminating in synoptic...

36. Discussion

8/8/23, 3:15 PM