Helge Stjernholm Kragh (born February 13, 1944) is a Danish historian of science who focuses on the development of 19th century physics, chemistry, and astronomy.[1]
His published work includes biographies of Paul Dirac, Julius Thomsen and Ludvig Lorenz, and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology (2019) which he co-edited with Malcolm Longair.[1]
Kragh was an associate professor of history of science at Cornell University from 1987 to 1989, a professor at the University of Oslo from 1995 to 1997, and a professor at Aarhus University in Denmark from 1997 to 2015.[2]
An introduction to the Historiography of Science. Cambridge University Press, 1987
Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology. 2004
Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology. Oxford University Press, 2006
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. Princeton University Press, 1999
The Moon that wasn't – the saga of Venus' spurious satellite. Birkhäuser, 2008
Den Sære Historie om Venus' Måne og Andre Naturvidenskabelige Fortællinger (The Strange History of Venus' Moon and Other Scientific Tales). Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2020, ISBN9788711984000[10]
Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology. Ashgate, London 2008
with David Knight, eds.: The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789–1914. Cambridge University Press, 1998
with Peter C. Kjargaard & Henry Nielsen: Science in Denmark – A Thousand-Year History. Aarhus University Press, 2009