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Alexander S. Blum; Dean Rickles

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T1  - Acknowledgements
T2  - Quantum Gravity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Sourcebook
A1  - Alexander S. Blum
A1  - Dean Rickles
AB  - This volume collects the earliest contributions to what is now known as quantum gravity research: the attempt to bring together quantum theory and the general theory of relativity. Covering the period from 1916–1950, it shows the beginnings of an unsolved problem that still remains as such today. The original sources are interspersed with historical essays, which together provide the first scholarly historical overview of quantum gravity in the first half of the twentieth century. The combination of historical analysis and original sources make this a volume of interest to historians, philosophers, and physicists alike. Edition Open Sources (EOS) pioneers a new paradigm in publishing, devoted to open access and high-quality peer review. This collaborative scholarly endeavor publishes academic editions of primary sources in the history of science in online, digital, and print formats. EOS publications present new editions of original sources with facsimile reproductions, in part also with translations, and with an introduction to the authors and the context in which they worked. The sources are typically historical books, manuscripts, documents or other material that is otherwise difficult to access. EOS a collaboration between the University of Oklahoma Libraries, the Department for the History of Science of the University of Oklahoma and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
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PY  - 2018
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This book benefitted greatly from the support of Jürgen Renn, who not only co-organised and funded (via the MPIWG) two highly successful workshops on the early history of quantum gravity (at Pasadena in 2010 and Berlin in 2011), but also helped fund several research projects closely related to this book. We wish to also acknowledge Diana Kormos-Buchwald and Tilman Sauer (now University of Mainz), of the Einstein Papers Project, who were also responsible for the organisation of the Pasadena workshop. The participants in those workshop sessions deserve thanks for their probing analyses of several of the papers that appear in this volume. We would also like to thank Urte Brauckmann of the MPIWG library for her invaluable help in procuring the reproduction rights to the papers. Dean Rickles would also like to thank the Australian Research Council for its support of his historical research via a Future Fellowship: FT130100466.

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