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History of Science & Medicine | Core Faculty
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 Ole
Molvig
Assistant Professor of History
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.
ole.molvig@yale.edu
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