Ole Molvig
Assistant Professor
Office: HGS 300-G
Phone: (203) 432-1397
Email: ole.molvig@yale.edu
Ole Molvig is an historian of the modern physical sciences. He completed his B.S. degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Physics, Astronomy, and History of Science, and did his graduate work at Princeton University where he examined the responses to Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity for his Ph.D. in History. Specifically Professor Molvig explores the mechanisms through which consensus is reached regarding the meaning of novel scientific work; namely, how did different communities, from theoretical physicists to newspaper journalists, decide that Einstein's theory was one of gravitation, applicable to the universe as a whole, and revolutionary?
Professor Molvig's other research interests include the history of astronomy, precision instrumentation, physics in WWI, popular science, and modern European intellectual and cultural history. His regular course offerings include a survey of the modern sciences, as well as more focused graduate and undergraduate seminars in the history of physics, the history of technology, the scientific revolution, and methods in the history of science.
Professor Molvig lives in Branford College, where he is a Residential Fellow.
