Martin J. Klein

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Martin J. Klein (M. J. Klein) is a science historian of 19th and 20th century physics. At Yale University, he is the Eugene Higgins emeritus professor of the history of physics and an emeritus professor of physics.

Professor Klein received the 2005 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, a joint award of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics.

[edit] Publications

Author

• 1970: Paul Ehrenfest: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist. Biography of Paul Ehrenfest. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 0-72040-163-1. 1985 edition: ISBN 0-44486-948-4
• 1993: Physicists' Inaugural Lectures in History. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9-05356-057-2.

Editor

• 1993-1996: Einstein Papers Project. Lead editor, Volumes 3, 4, 5; editor, Volume 6, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton University Press:

Subject

• 1995: A. J. Kox and Daniel M. Siegel, No Truth Except in the Details: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-792-33195-8.

[edit] References

• Academic biography in Pais Prize announcement, AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Fall 2005.
• Einstein Papers Project staff, past editors.