Dr Jaume Navarro

Lecturer (E&S)

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Dr Navarro is a historian of science, trained in physics and in philosophy. His research interests include the history of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries, the philosophy of science, especially the question of realism, and the relationship between science and religion.

Books:

  • El padre del electrón. Nivola, Madrid 2006.
  • Arquitectos de la materia. Fundación Iberdrola, Madrid 2006.
  • En contacto con la realidad. El realismo crítico en la filosofía de Karl Popper. Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, Serie Universitaria 117, Pamplona 2000.
  • Cap al naixement d’una nova disciplina. El descobriment de noves partícules elementals i la seva contextualització abans de la II Guerra Mundial (1932-1939), Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 1998.

Forthcoming books:

  • Electrons in the Thomson Family. J.J. and G.P., father and son. (2011, under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Edited books:

  • Science and Faith within Reason. Reality, Creation, Life and Design. Ashgate, Farnham, 2011.
  • Synergia. Primer Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia de la Ciencia, CSIC, Madrid 2007.

Forthcoming edited volumes:

  • Research and Pedagogy. A History of Quantum Physics and its early Textbooks. (2011, under contract with Max Planck Library for the History and Development of Knowledge).

               Refereed Papers:

  • ‘A Victorian theory of the Multiverse: ‘The Unseen Universe’ and the notion of Creation’. In J. Navarro (ed.) Science and Faith within Reason. Reality, Creation, Life and Design. (Ashgate, 2011).
  • ‘Electron diffraction chez Thomson. Early responses to quantum physics in Britain’, British Journal for the History of Science, 43, 2010, 245-275.
  • ‘Religious truth and scientific relativism’, in Evers, D., Jackelén, A., and Smedes, T.A., eds., Studies in Science and Theology, 12, (ESSSAT: Bamberg, 2010, 169-178).
  •  ‘“A dedicated missionary”. Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 40, 2009, 316-326.
  •  ‘Imperial incursions in late-Victorian Cambridge: J.J. Thomson and the domains of the Physical Sciences’, History of Science, 44, 2006, 469-495.
  •  ‘The uses of neutrinos: a historical perspective’, European Journal of Physics, 27, 2006, 1257-1264.
  • ‘Early Attempts to Detect the Neutrino at the Cavendish Laboratory’, Physics in Perspective, 8, 2006, 64-82.
  • ‘J.J. Thomson on the nature of matter: corpuscles and the continuum’, Centaurus, 47, 2005, 259-282.
  • ‘More than two faces of common sense’, Acta Philosophica, 14 (2), 2005, 287-297.
  • ‘New entities, old paradigms: elementary particles in the 1930s’, Llull, 27, 2004, 435-464.
  • ‘Una interpretación milenarista de Karl Popper’, Thematha, 28, 2002, 141-160.
  • ‘El neutrón de Chadwick y su interpretación’, Cronos, 3 (2), 2000, 273-295.

Book Reviews:

  • Book review: ‘Pedro Ruiz-Castell. Astronomy and Astrophysics in Spain (1850-1914)’, ISIS, 101 (4), 2010, 906-907.
  • Book review: ‘David Lindley. Degrees Kelvin. A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy’, ISIS, 98 (4), 2007, 851-852.
  • Book review: ‘Theodore Arabatzis. Representing Electrons. A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities’, Nuncius, 21 (2), 2006, 415-416.
  • Book review: ‘Andrew Warwick. Masters of Theory. Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics’, Cronos, 7(1), 2004, 188-191.

Unrefereed Papers:

  • ‘Joseph John Thomson. Una vida entre electrones, átomos y espíritus’, n Romero Moñovas, J., De las Ciencias a la Teología. Ensayos interdisciplinares en homenaje a Manuel García Doncel, (Editorial Verbo Divino: Pamplona 2011), 83-93.
  • ‘La comprensió del fenomen científic. Una perspectiva històrica’, in Escribano, X. ed., Territoris Humans de la Salut, (Duxelm: Barcelona, 2008), 14-30.
  • ‘Planck and de Broglie in the Thomson family’, in Joas, C., et al. eds., HQ-1: Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, (Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, n. 350: Berlin, 2008), 233-251.
  • ‘Les fronteres entre disciplines al Cambridge del segle XIX’, in Batlló, J., et al., eds., Actes de la VIII Trobada d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, (SCHCT: Barcelona, 2006), 441-445.
  • ‘Karl Popper, un filósofo ‘con los pies en el suelo’’, Anuario Filosófico, 34 (1), 2001, pp. 157-177.
  • ‘Las partículas elementales entre-guerras’, Actas del II Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España. Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 1997, 419-422.

Forthcoming papers:

  • Teaching Quantum Physics in Cambridge. In Badino and Navarro (eds.) Research and Pedagogy. A History of Quantum Physics and its early Textbooks. (2011, under contract with Max Planck Library for the History and Development of Knowledge).