Jimena Canales is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Two of the 20th century's greatest minds, one of them physicist Albert Einstein, came to intellectual blows one day in Paris in 1922. Their dispute, before a learned audience, was ...

With Jimena Canales, Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of the book The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That ...

Jimena Canales is a faculty member of the Graduate College at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a research affiliate at MIT. She focuses on 19th and 20th century history of the physical ...

This innovative biography of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) from Square Haunting author Wade assesses the influential writer’s life and legacy. Believing that truly groundbreaking Continue reading » Make ...

Jimena Canales is a faculty member of the Graduate College at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a research affiliate at MIT. She focuses on 19th and 20th century history of the physical ...

Bertrand Russell is reputed to have said that “science is organized common sense; philosophy is organized piffle”. Although probably being playful, he was articulating the view of many physicists.

Qué cosa tan singular es la representación de los científicos que viajan a bordo de la nave Prometheus en la precuela de Alien del mismo nombre (esa película que a todos nos gusta odiar, pero a todos ...

Paul Collins’s review of Jimena Canales’s book A Tenth of a Second states that Canales argues that the effect of human reaction time was highlighted by “astronomers recording the transit of Venus in ...

There’s a lot we still don’t know about matter, time, and the contents of the universe. Why that’s a challenge…and a thrill for physicists. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while ...