Articles–History of Physics Group

I. Falconer, Vortices and atoms in the Maxwellian era, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (377) 2158, 15 p. 20180451

I. Falconer, Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes’ Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856), History of Science. OnlineFirst, 26 p. (2018)

I. Falconer, Corpuscles to electrons, In: Histories of the electron: The birth of microphysics, ed. J. Buchwald, A. Warwick, Cambridge, MIT Press (2001) 77–100

J. Farrell, New Discovery Reveals Einstein Tried To Devise A Steady State Model Of The Universe, Forbes (25 February 2014)

N. Feather, The Rutherford Memorial Lecture: Some episodes of the alpha-particle story, Proc. Roy. Soc. A (357) 117–129 (1977)

L. Ferlier, Atmospheric footnotes: Ada Lovelace on climate, Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Volume 79, Issue 1 (2024)

L. Ferlier, Why did the Royal Society reject a 1932 scientific paper on the use of X-rays to stimulate the retina? Royal Society History of science, 04 November 2025

G. Ferrari, Scateni recording seismograph for undulatory shocks, In: Two Hundred years of seismic instruments in Italy 1731-1940, ed. Graziano Ferrari, 98-101. Bologna: SGA Storia Geofisica Ambiente (1992)

J. Finney, John Desmond Bernal, IoP History of Physics Newsletter (37) 24-36 (2019)

P. Fleury, The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1923 to 1972, In: Physics 50 Years Later, Washington, National Academies Press (1973) 3–12

M. Focaccia, Not Just Boys at Via Panisperna: Women at the Royal Physics Institute in Rome, In: Physics in Perspective, 24 (2-3) 154-177 (2022)

M. Focaccia, Dal vapore al trasporto elettrico. I primi esperimenti in Italia agli albori del XX secolo - From steam to electricity. The first experiments on railway lines in Italy at the dawn of the 20th century, Quaderni di Storia della Fisica, Vol 22 (Issue 1) 87-112 (2019)

R. Folk, Y. Holovatch, Schottky’s forgotten step to the Ising model, The European Physical Journal H, 47 (9) 1-18 (2022)

P. Ford, Crystal Clear - Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg, IoP History of Physics Newsletter (35) 54-68 (2017)

P. Ford, Superconductivity - the first hundred years, IoP History of Physics Group Newsletter (29) 7-25 (2011)

P. Forman, "Walter Ritz" in Dictionnary of Scientific Biographies, New York (1975) vol. 11, 475-481

C. Forstner, Laboratory Life Instead of Nuclear Weapons: A New Perspective on the German Uranium Club, In: Physics in Perspective, 24 (4) 181-207 (2022)

B. Foster, The return of the aether. New Scientist, 244 (3254) 32–35 (2019)

P. Fowler, The Rutherford Memorial Lecture: Evolution of the elements, Proceedings Royal Society A (329) 1–16 (1972)

J. Fox, Evidence against emission theories, American Journal of Physics, vol. 33 (1965) 1 - 17

J. Fox, Experimental evidence for the second postulate of special relativity, American Journal of Physics, vol. 30 (1962) 297-300.

D. Fraser, M. Papageorgiou, Note on episodes in the history of modeling measurements in local spacetime regions using QFT, The European Physical Journal H, 48 (14) (2023)

F. Freitas, O. Freire Jr., I. Faria, Power Relations in Science: The Bohr and Wheeler-Everett Dialogue on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Transversal (special issue), Historiography of Physics (8) 26-40 (2020)

L. De Frenza, L'elettrometro bifilare di Luigi Palmieri - Luigi Palmieri bifilar electrometer, Quaderni di Storia della Fisica, Vol 24 (Issue 1) 73-97 (2020)

F. Frezza, S. Maddio, G. Pelosi, S. Selleri, The Key role of Giovanni Giorgi in Developing the MKSA System of Units, 6th IEEE History of Electrotechnology Conference (HISTELCON) (2019) 5-6

J. Frisvad, H. Kragh, On Ludvig Lorenz and his 1890 treatise on light scattering by spheres, The European Physical Journal H, 44 (2) 137-160 (2019)

R. Fritzius, The Ritz-Einstein Agreement to Disagree, Physics Essays, vol. 3 (1990) 371-374

R. Frost, A geologist and an Egyptologist in conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Notes and Records, The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, p 1-23 (2022)

S. Furlan, L. Bonolis, Unveiling the violent universe (1950–1970), Part 2. The rise of relativistic astrophysics and the new astronomies in the Soviet world, In: Between Physics and Earthquakes: Scientific Development and Instrumental Innovation in Modern Italy, and the Legacy of Alessandro Serpieri (R. Mantovani ed), The European Physical Journal H (50) 14 (2025)

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