ANTHONY N. STRANGES

Department of History

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-4236

e-mail: a-stranges @tamu.edu

Telephone: 979/845-7151

Fax: 979/862-4314

PUBLICATIONS

Books

History of Science in the United States.  New York: Hartcourt Brace College Publishers, forthcoming (with Richard Jones).

Electrons and Valence:­ Development of the Theory, 1900-1925.  College Station:­ Texas A&M University Press, 1982.

Book Chapters

“Germany’s Synthetic Fuel Industry.”  In The Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century.  Ed. by John E. Lesch.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming.

"Synthetic Petroleum from High-Pressure Coal Hydrogenation." In Chemistry and Modern Society:  Historical Essays in Honor of Aaron J. Ihde.  Ed. by John Parascandola and James Wharton, 21-42.  Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1983.  The American Chemical Society published this Festschrift volume honoring Aaron Ihde, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Articles

“The US Bureau of Mines Synthetic Liquid Fuels Programme, 1920-1950s: German Connections and American Advances.”  Annals of Science 54 (1997):29-68.

“Germany’s Synthetic Fuel Industry 1930-1945.”  Working Paper 5.64, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley (March 1997): 1-94.

"William Francis Giauque: An Adventure in Low-Temperature Thermodynamics."  In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology.  Ed. by Alexander Herlea, 1-12.  San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1993.

"Synthetic Fuel Production in Prewar and World War II Japan:  A Case Study in Technological Failure." Annals of Science 50 (1993): 229-65.

"Farrington Daniels and the Wisconsin Process For Nitrogen Fixation."  Social Studies of Science 22 (1992): 317-37.

"X-Rays:  Laying the Foundation of Modern Radiology."  Medicina Nei Secoli Arte e Scienza 3 (1991):  207-22 (with Deidi Strickland).

"Canada's Mines Branch and Its Synthetic Fuel Program for Energy Independence."  Technology and Culture 32 (1991): 521-54.

"William Francis Giauque (1895-1982): An Adventure in Low-Temperature Research."  Journal of Chemical Education  67 (1990): 187-93.

"Unravelling Origins: The Archean."  Earth Science 42 (December 1989): 20-22 (with Richard Jones).

"Canada's Mines Branch and Its Synthetic Fuels Programme For Energy Independence." Canadian Chemical News (L'Actualité Chimique Canadienne) 41 (May 1989): 22-24.

"Friedrich Bergius and the Transformation of Coal Liquefaction from Empiricism to a Science-Based Technology."   Journal of Chemical Education 65 (1988): 749-51.

"Canada's Mines Branch: Synthetic Fuels and the Search for Energy Independence."  In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 495-505.  Madrid, Spain: Ministerio de Obras publicas y Urbanismo, 1988.

"Friedrich Bergius:  Scientist and Industrial Pioneer of High-Pressure Coal Liquefaction." In Technology and Technical Sciences in History.  Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology.  Ed. by Rolf Sonnemann and Klaus Krug, 263-66.  East Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1987.

"The Conversion of Coal to Petroleum: Its German Roots."  Fuel Processing Technology 16 (1987): 205-25.

"From Birmingham to Billingham: Synthetic Fuels in Great Britain, 1910-1945."  Technology and Culture 26 (1985): 726-57.

"Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry."   Isis 75 (1984): 643-67.

"Petroleum from Coal:­ German Roots and Recent American Developments." In Energy in History.  Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology.  Ed. by Hans Joachim-Braun and Wolfgang König, 125-31.  Düsseldorf: Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, 1984.

"Reflections on the Electron Theory of the Chemical Bond: 1900-1925." Journal of Chemical Education 61 (1984): 185-90.  Published as the "G.N. Lewis Symposium Papers."  This is an expanded version of the paper cited below.

"Synthetic Petroleum from Coal Hydrogenation:­ Its History and Present State of Development in the United States."­  Journal of Chemical Education 60 (1983): 617-25.

"History of High-Pressure Coal Hydrogenation." ­ Proceedings of the Society for the History of Technology 3 (1982): 111-28.

"Reflections on the Electron Theory of the Chemical Bond:­ 1900-1925."­ The Physics Teacher 19 (1981): 583-89.

Dictionary Articles

“Karl Ziegler.”  In Encyclopedia Britannica.  Chicago, forthcoming.

"Chemistry in the United States."  In The History of Science in the United States:  An Encyclopedia.  New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., forthcoming (with Marlene Bradford).

“Auguste and Jean-Felix Piccard.”  In Dictionary of World Biography, 20^th Century, Vol. 9. Pasadena, California: Salem Press and Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,  1999, 3002-5(with Marlene Bradford).

“William F. Giauque.”  In Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists.  Ed. by Richard Olson.  New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1998, 503-6 (with Steve Kirkpatrick).

“G.N. Lewis.”  In Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists.  Ed. by Richard Olson.  New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1998, 829-31(with Steve Kirkpatrick).

"Leo H. Baekeland."  In American National Biography, Vol. 1.  Ed. by John A. Garraty.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 861-84 (with Richard Jones).

"Frederick Gardner Cottrell." In American National Biography, Vol 5.  Ed. by John A. Garraty.  New York: Oxford University Press, 569-70 (with Richard Jones).

"Farrington Daniels." In American National Biography, Vol. 6.  Ed. by John A. Garraty.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 92-93.

“Roger Adams.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol.  1.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 24-25 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Adolph Baeyer.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 1.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 210 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Friedrich Beilstein.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 1.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 218 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Neils Bohr.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 1.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 250 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Robert Bunsen.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 1.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 275-76 (with Marlene Bradford).       

“Albert Einstein.” In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol.  2.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 501-2 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Alexander Fleck.” In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 2.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 628 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Henry Gilman.” In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 2.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 689-90 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Ernest O. Lawrence.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 4.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 844 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Henri LeChatelier.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 4.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 846-47 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Lothar Meyer.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 4.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 940-41 (with Marlene Bradford).

“Henry G.J. Moseley.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 4.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 984-85 (with Marlene Bradford).

“The Proton.”  In Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Vol. 4.  Ed. by Joseph Lagowski.  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997, 1262-63  (with Marlene Bradford).

"Coal Liquefaction." In Magill's Survey of Science:  Applied Science.  Ed. by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1993, 441-48 (with Steven Kirkpatrick).

"Hess Concludes the Debate on Continental Drift." In Magill's Great Events From History II:  Science and Technology.  Ed. by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena, California:  Salem Press, 1991, 1650-54 (with Richard Jones).

"William Giauque." In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 17.  Ed. by Charles C. Gillispie.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990, 337-44.

"George Scatchard." In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 18.  Ed. by Charles C. Gillispie.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990, 776-79.

"The Archean Eon." In Magill's Survey of Science, Earth Science Series, Vol. 1. Ed. by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990, 92-97 (with Richard Jones).

"The Geological Time Scale." In Magill's Survey of Science, Earth Science Series, Vol. 2. Ed. by Frank N. Magill.  Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990, 874-81 (with Richard Jones).

Book Reviews

John Perlin, Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity, in Isis, forthcoming.

Donald Beattie, ed., History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies, in Isis 90 (1999): 402-3.

Robin Herman, Fusion:  The Search for Endless Energy, in Annals of Science 50 (1993): 296-298.

Robert S. Mulliken, Life of a Scientist, in Isis 81 (1990): 797.

Michael Crow, Barry Bozeman, Walter Meyer, and Ralph Shangraw, Jr., Synthetic Fuel Technology Development in the United States, in Technology and Culture 31 (1990):350-52.

S.W. Hawking and W. Israel, Three Hundred Years of Gravitation, in Annals of Science 46 (1989): 110-12.

William Ashworth, The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 5, in Technology and Culture 29 (1988): 975-77.

Arnold Kramish, The Griffin:  The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II, in Isis 79 (1988): 173-74.

Yuval Ne'man and Yoram Kirsch, The Particle Hunters, in Annals of Science 44 (1987): 534-36.

Hugh J.G. Aitken, Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio, in The American Historical Review 91 (1986): 1166-67.

John Hendry, The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue, in Annals of Science 43 (1986): 304-5.

R.L. Whitmore, Coal in Queensland:­ The First Fifty Years, in Technology and Culture 25 (1984): 857-59.

Kevin Hance, Conflict and Coal, in Technology and Culture 25 (1984): 857-59.

Brian McCusker, The Quest for Quarks, in Annals of Science 41 (1984): 498-500.