John L. Heilbron

American historian (1934–2023)

John Lewis Heilbron (March 17, 1934 – November 5, 2023) was an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He was Professor of History and Vice Chancellor Emeritus (Vice Chancellor 1990–1994) at the University of California, Berkeley, senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and visiting professor at Yale University and the California Institute of Technology. He edited the academic journal Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences for twenty five years.

2022: The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini's World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue. Oxford University Press. 2021: The Ghost of Galileo in a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2020: Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. 2018: The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. 2013: Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom, with Finn Aaserud, Oxford University Press. 2010: Galileo, Oxford University Press. (See Galileo Galilei.) 2003: The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (ed. ), Oxford University Press. 2003: Ernest Rutherford and the Explosion of Atoms, Oxford Portraits in Science, Oxford University Press. 1999: The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. Harvard University Press. 2001 paperback: 1999: Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics. Dover Publications. 1997: Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, Technique. Oxford University Press. 2000 paperback: 1989: Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, with Robert W. Seidel. University of California Press. 1986: The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, University of California Press. 1979: Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics, University of California Press. 1974: H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887 1915, University of California Press. .