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Dr Joseph Martin's Outputs (60)

History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics (2025)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (in press). History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Physics. Oxford University Press

Solid state physics, the branch of physics focused on the physical properties of solid matter, emerged in the mid-twentieth century as physics grew and diversified, both conceptually and professionally. The study of solids and other condensed materia... Read More about History Of Solid State And Condensed Matter Physics.

Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, J. D. (2024, September). Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica. Presented at XLIV Congresso Nazionale Sisfa, Firenze

Neither solid state nor condensed matter physics existed at the end of World War II. Physical problems related to the properties of materials, of course, have a much longer history, but the physics community was not yet subdivided in a way that recog... Read More about Lo stato solido e la nuova mappa della fisica.

Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science (2025)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D. (in press). Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science. American Quarterly, 77(3),

In March 1953, Allen Astin, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, lost his job. He was fired by Sinclair Weeks, Dwight Eisenhower's newly confirmed Secretary of Commerce. The bureau had concluded that AD-X2, an after-market additive advertise... Read More about Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science.

Physics Envy (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, J. (in press). Physics Envy. Centaurus,

Drawing the Line between Pure and Applied Physics (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2024). Drawing the Line between Pure and Applied Physics. In R. Lalli, & J. Navarro (Eds.), Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198878681.003.0005

The categories of pure and applied science—and by extension, pure and applied physics—have a complicated relationship. They have sometimes been complements, sometimes opposites, and routinely at the centre of debates about how scientific labour shoul... Read More about Drawing the Line between Pure and Applied Physics.

Glauber, Roy J. (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (in press). Glauber, Roy J. In American National Biography. Oxford University Press

Word and Image in Popular Science (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2024). Word and Image in Popular Science. In F. Grant, & L. Jordanova (Eds.), Where Words and Images Meet. London: Bloomsbury

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873 (2023)
Book
Barton, M. D., Martin, J. D., Radick, G., & MacLeod, R. (Eds.). (2023). The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from June 1, 1872, to September 28, 1873, much of which was consumed by Tyndall’s lecture tour of the United States. We meet him in the midst of the Ay... Read More about The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13, The Correspondence, June 1872–September 1873.

Critiques of Big Science (2023)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2023). Critiques of Big Science. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris, & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts. IOP Publishing

The name “big science,” like “big bang” or “big pharma,” began as a slur. Big science, that is, has been the subject of critique for at least as long as we have had a name for it. This chapter explores that legacy. It demonstrates how big science bec... Read More about Critiques of Big Science.

The Tragedy of the Canon; or, Path Dependence in the History and Philosophy of Science (2021)
Journal Article
Bolinska, A., & Martin, J. D. (2021). The Tragedy of the Canon; or, Path Dependence in the History and Philosophy of Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 89, 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.07.008

We have previously argued that historical cases must be rendered canonical before they can plausibly serve as evidence for philosophical claims, where canonicity is established through a process of negotiation among historians and philosophers of sci... Read More about The Tragedy of the Canon; or, Path Dependence in the History and Philosophy of Science.