Erwin Hiebert's doctoral students

We list below doctoral students advised by Erwin Hiebert. For each we give a title and date for their Ph.D. and the University awarding the degree. For those where a second supervisor was involved, we give the second supervisor's name.

Student: Frederick Andrew White.
Thesis title: Significant Contributions of American Industrial Research Laboratories in the Development of Analytical Instruments for the Physical Sciences 1900-1950.
Date of thesis: 1959.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1960.
Number of pages: 636.
Student: Ollin Junior Drennan.
Thesis title: Electrolytic Solution Theory: Foundations of Modern Thermodynamical Considerations.
Date of thesis: 1961.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1961.
Number of pages: 432.
Student: Bernard Storrs Finn.
Thesis title: Developments in Thermoelectricity, 1850-1920.
Date of thesis: 1963.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1963.
Number of pages: 410.
Student: James Brookes Spencer.
Thesis title: An Historical Investigation of the Zeeman Effect (1896-1913).
Date of thesis: 1964.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1964.
Number of pages: 596.
Student: Clifford Lawrence Maier.
Thesis title: The Role of Spectroscopy in the Acceptance of an Internally Structured Atom 1860-1920.
Date of thesis: 1964.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Microfilms. A Xerox Company, 1975.
Number of pages: 601.
Student: Michael J Crowe.
Thesis title: The History of the Idea of a Vectorial System to 1910.
Date of thesis: 1965.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965.
Number of pages: 1232.
Student: Edward Eugene Daub.
Thesis title: Rudolf Clausius and the Nineteenth Century Theory of Heat.
Date of thesis: 1966.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966.
Number of pages: 426.
Student: Joan Lisa Bromberg.
Thesis title: Maxwell's Concept of Electric Displacement.
Date of thesis: 1967.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Second Supervisor: Robert S Cohen.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1967.
Number of pages: 470.
Student: Carolyn Merchant Iltis.
Thesis title: The Controversy over Living Force: Leibniz to D'Alembert.
Date of thesis: 1967.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Microfilms. A Xerox Company, 1970.
Number of pages: 806.
Student: Thomas William Hawkins.
Thesis title: The Origin and Early Development of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration.
Date of thesis: 1968.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968.
Number of pages: 734.
Student: Roger Harry Stuewer.
Thesis title: The History of the Compton Effect.
Date of thesis: 1968.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968.
Number of pages: 1140.
Student: Robert James McRae.
Thesis title: The Origin of the Conception of the Continuous Spectrum of Heat and Light.
Date of thesis: 1969.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969.
Number of pages: 878.
Student: Mary Jo Nye.
Thesis title: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality.
Date of thesis: 1970.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970.
Number of pages: 720.
Student: Henry G Small.
Thesis title: The Helium Atom in the Old Quantum Theory.
Date of thesis: 1971.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Microfilms. A Xerox Company, 1975.
Number of pages: 417.
Student: Thaddeus Joseph Trenn.
Thesis title: The Rise and Early Development of the Disintegration Theory of Radiation.
Date of thesis: 1971.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971.
Number of pages: 376.
Student: Joseph Warren Dauben.
Thesis title: The Early Development of Cantorian Set Theory.
Date of thesis: 1972.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1972.
Number of pages: Unnumbered.
Student: Donald Franklin Moyer.
Thesis title: The Use of Dynamics as the Basis of Physical Theory by British Theoretical Physicists in the Latter Half of the nineteenth Century.
Date of thesis: 1973.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973.
Number of pages: 1226.
Student: Gisela Kutzbach.
Thesis title: The Genesis of the Thermal Theory of Cyclones.
Date of thesis: 1973.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973.
Number of pages: 642.
Student: David Hargreave.
Thesis title: Thomas Young's Theory of Vision: Its Roots, Development and Acceptance by the British Scientific Community.
Date of thesis: 1973.
University: University of Wisconsin.
Thesis Published: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Microfilms. A Xerox Company, 1987.
Number of pages: 1050.
Student: Frederick George Gregory.
Thesis title: Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany.
Date of thesis: 1973.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1973.
Number of pages: 920.
Student: Jed Zachary Buchwald.
Thesis title: Matter, the Medium and the Electric Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842 to 1895.
Date of thesis: 1974.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1974.
Number of pages: 1226.
Student: Susan Presswood Wright.
Thesis title: Henri Poincaré: A Developmental Study of the Philosophical and Scientific Thought.
Date of thesis: 1975.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975.
Number of pages: 1064.
Student: Keith Alfred Nier.
Thesis title: The Emergence of Physics in Nineteenth Century Britain as a Socially Organized Category of Knowledge: Preliminary Studies.
Date of thesis: 1975.
University: Harvard University.
Student: Craig Steven Zwerling.
Thesis title: The Emergence of the École Normale Supérieure as a Center of Scientific Education in Nineteenth Century France.
Date of thesis: 1976.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Garland, New York, 1990.
Number of pages: 362.
Student: Lorraine Jenifer Daston.
Thesis title: The Reasonable Calculus: Classical Probability Theory 1650-1840.
Date of thesis: 1979.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Unpublished.
Student: Barbara Reeves Buck.
Thesis title: Italian Physicists and Their Institutions 1861-1911.
Date of thesis: 1980.
University: Harvard University.
Note: This thesis also appears with the author named as Barbara Jane Reeves.
Student: Joan Livingston Richards.
Thesis title: Non-Euclidean Geometry in Nineteenth Century England: A Study in Changing Perceptions of Mathematical Truth.
Date of thesis: 1980.
University: Harvard University.
Student: Peter Louis Galison.
Thesis title: How Experiments End: Three Case Studies on the Interaction of Experiment and Theory in 20th Century Physics.
Date of thesis: 1981.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Number of pages: 330.
Student: Neil H Wasserman.
Thesis title: The Bohr-Kramers-Slater Paper and the Development of the Quantum Theory of Radiation in the Work of Niels Bohr.
Date of thesis: 1981.
University: Harvard University.
Student: Seyyed Mohammed Haghi.
Thesis title: Matter, Life, Consciousness: The Interrelation of Science, Religion and Reality in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson.
Date of thesis: 1983.
University: Harvard University.
Second Supervisor: Wilfred C Smith.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, 1983.
Number of pages: 756.
Student: Richard Lynn Kremer.
Thesis title: The Thermodynamics of Life and Experimental Physiology 1770-1880.
Date of thesis: 1984.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: University Microfilms, 1986.
Number of pages: 512.
Student: Maila L Walter.
Thesis title: Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman.
Date of thesis: 1985.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Number of pages: 362.
Student: Gilbert Franklin Whittemore.
Thesis title: The National Committee on Radiation Protection 1928-1960: From Professional Guidelines to Government Regulation.
Date of thesis: 1986.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University, 1986.
Number of pages: 1344.
Student: Sara Schechner Genuth.
Thesis title: From Monstrous Signs to Natural Causes: The Assimilation of Comet Lore into Natural Philosophy.
Date of thesis: 1988.
University: Harvard University.
Second Supervisors: I Bernard Cohen and Owen J Gingerich.
Thesis Published: UMI, 1989.
Number of pages: 656.
Student: Diana Kormos Barkan.
Thesis title: Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Chemistry.
Date of thesis: 1990.
University: Harvard University.
Thesis Published: Harvard University , 1990.
Number of pages: 944.
See also: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 302 pages.
Student: Dong-Won Kim.
Thesis title: The Emergence of the Cavendish School: An Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory 1871-1900.
Date of thesis: 1991.
University: Harvard University.
Second Supervisor: Silvan S Schweber.
Thesis Published: Harvard University , 1991.
Number of pages: 602.
Student: Skuli Sigurdsson.
Thesis title: Hermann Weyl, Mathematics and Physics 1900-1927.
Date of thesis: 1991.
University: Harvard University.
Second Supervisor: Silvan S Schweber.
Number of pages: 307.

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