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Aaron Sidney Wright, PhD

Welcome!

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Welcome to the personal website of Dr. Aaron Sidney Wright. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University and in the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of King's College, in Halifax, Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia).

Please use this site to learn about my research, my teaching, and more about me.

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Tagged “research”

  1. Book – More than Nothing

    A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1925-1980
  2. Book – Theoretical Physics In Your Face! Selected Correspondence of Sidney Coleman

    Selected Correspondence of Sidney Coleman
  3. Book Chapter — An Ether by Any Other Name? Paul Dirac’s Æther

  4. Fresnel's laws, ceteris paribus

  5. Review – Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

  6. Article — A beautiful sea: P. A. M. Dirac's epistemology and ontology of the vacuum

  7. Article — The Physics of Forgetting: Thermodynamics of Information at IBM 1959–1982

  8. Review – Scattershot History

  9. Article — The Advantages of Bringing Infinity to a Finite Place: Penrose Diagrams as Objects of Intuition

  10. Article — The Origins of Penrose Diagrams in Physics, Art, and the Psychology of Perception, 1958–62

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