1: Helge Kragh: Cosmological theories before and without
Einstein
2: Robert W. Smith: Observations and the universe
3: Matteo Realdi: Relativistic models and the expanding
universe
4: Helge Kragh: Alternative cosmological theories
5: Helge Kragh: Steady state theory and the cosmological
controversy
6: Malcolm Longair: Observational and astrophysical cosmology: 1940
to 1980
7: Malcolm Longair: Relativistic astrophysics and cosmology
8: Bruce Partridge: The cosmic microwave background: From discovery
to precision cosmology
9: Silvia de Bianchi: Space science and technological progress:
Testing theories of relativistic gravity and cosmology during the
Cold War
10: Malcolm Longair: Observational and astrophysical cosmology:
1980 to 2018
11: Malcolm Longair and Chris Smeenk: Inflation, dark matter, and
dark energy
12: Milan M. Cirkovic: Stranger things: Multiverse, string theory,
physical eschatology
13: Chris Smeenk: Philosophical aspects of cosmology
Helge Kragh gained doctoral degrees in physics (1981) and in
philosophy (2007). He was a high school teacher in physics and
chemistry (1970-87), and then later a professor of history of
science at Cornell University, USA; University of Oslo, Norway; and
University of Aarhus, Denmark (1987-2015). After retiring, he is
now emeritus professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark. Malcolm Longair is Director of Development and
Outreach,
Jacksonian Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy at the
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. He also holds
the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical Memoirs of
Fellows of the Royal
Society (2016-2020). Longair has previously held positions as a
university lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of
Cambridge (1970--80); Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Regius
Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Director of the
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (1980-90); Jacksonian Professor of
Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge (1991--2008); andHead
of Cavendish Laboratory (1997--2005).
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