Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, Institutions

Preface (Christian Forstner, Dieter Hoffmann, Mark Walker).- Biography of what? Biographies and the History of Physics (Christian Forstner).- Autobiography as history, curriculum vitae, or ars moriendi? (Thomas Söderqvist).- Bridging Personal and Professional: Margaret Maltby's Life in Early Twentieth Century Physics (Joanna Behrman).- The Monastic Natural Philosopher - An Eighteenth Century Scientific Persona (Julia Bloemer).- Ludwig Prandtl -- Pioneer of Fluid Mechanics and Science Manager (Michael Eckert).- Rudolf Tomaschek: An exponent of the 'Deutsche Physik' movement (Vanessa Osganian).- Erwin Schrödinger in Spain (Enric Pérez).- Whose Biography Is It Anyway?: The Intersection of Biographies of Institutions, Leaders, and Instruments (Catherine Westfall).- Institutionalizing Einstein's Theory During the Cold War: Toward a Biography of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation(Roberto Lalli).- Marxism-Leninism and Relativity: Science and Ideology in Hans-Jürgen Treder's early academic career (Raphael Schlattmann).- A "Biography of the Max Planck Society:" The development of research clusters (Carsten Reinhardt).- Institutional biographies in time and frequency metrology: the case of the French Laboratoire National de Radioélectricité (Eckhard Wallis).- A biographical sketch of the last days of the ether (Jaume Navarro).- The Biography of a Concept - The "Birth" of Virtual Particles as a Case Study (Markus Ehberger).- The Biography of the German Atomic Bomb (Mark Walker).- The colour top and the distinction between additive and subtractive colour mixing (Valentina Roberti).- Scientific instruments turning into toys. From Franklin's palm glass to dipping birds. (Takis Lazos).- The transformation of research experiments into teaching devices (Peter Heering).- Lost in the production of time and space: the transformation of the Airy Transit Circle from a working telescope to a museum object (Daniel Belteki).