HAPP 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume

The HAPP 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume celebrates a decade of the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP)'s activities since its foundation in 2014.

The HAPP Centre was established to provide a forum in which the philosophy and methodologies that inform how current research in physics is undertaken would be included alongside the history of the discipline in an accessible way that could engage the general public as well as scientists, historians and philosophers.

The Volume is structured around four key overarching themes which encompass the HAPP papers in it: Physicists across History, Space and Astronomy, Philosophical Perspectives and Concepts in Physics. The thematic papers derive from talks given at the HAPP termly one-day conferences and from standalone lectures and seminars as well as from the discussion panels which took place online during the pandemic period – one paper in particular in The Nature of Quantum Reality section recounts how a very special book collaboration arose from that HAPP conference.

Under IOPP's Open Access online readers across the globe will be able to enjoy this Anniversary Volume from HAPP's first decade.

Centre member contributors:

Dr Jo Ashbourn (HAPP Volume Editor)
Professor Rob Iliffe
Dr Allan Chapman
Professor Arne Schirrmacher (former Visiting Fellow at OCHSMT)