Research articles
13 — “Melting of Silicon, 1985–1989: A New Era of Molecular Simulations” (in preparation).
12 — “Sidney Yip and the Integration of Molecular Simulations into Materials Science: The Pioneering Period, 1965–1985” (in preparation).
11 — “SHAKE and the Exact Constraint Satisfaction of the Dynamics of Semi-Rigid Molecules in Cartesian Coordinates, 1973–1977,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2023, 77:345–371, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-023-00306-0. Communicated by Olivier Darrigol.
10 — “The Emergence of Protein Dynamics Simulations: How Computational Statistical Mechanics Met Biochemistry” (with Benoît Roux and Giovanni Ciccotti), European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 2022, 47: Article Number 13, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-022-00043-y.
09 — “The Universe: A Book Written in the Mathematical –and the Programming– Language,” Il Nuovo Cimento C, 2021, 44: Article Number 25, https://doi.org/10.1393/ncc/i2021-21025-6.
08 — “The Breakthrough of a Quantum Chemist by Classical Dynamics: Martin Karplus and the Birth of Computer Simulations of Chemical Reactions” (with Benoît Roux and Giovanni Ciccotti), European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 2021, 46: Article Number 12, https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00013-w.
07 — “Sense Experiences and ‘Necessary Simulations:’ Four Centuries of Scientific Change from Galileo to Fundamental Computer Simulations” (with Benoît Roux and Giovanni Ciccotti), KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2020, 4:63–87, https://doi.org/10.1086/708257.
06 — “Newtonianism and Information Control in Rome at the Wake of the Eighteenth Century,” Annals of Science, 2020, 77:108–126, https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2020.1714291.
05 — “Talking about Secrets: The Hanford Nuclear Facility and News Reporting of Silence, 1945–1989,” in Felicity Mellor and Stephen Webster, eds., The Silences of Science: Gaps and Pauses in the Communication of Science (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 115–134.
04 — “The Work of the Roman Newtonians in the Italian Enlightenment,” Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, 2015, 108:8–9.
03 — “Corrado Gini and the Scientific Basis of Fascist Racism,” Medicina nei Secoli Arte e Scienza, 2014, 26:821–856.
02 — “Hanford and the middle ground between ‘knowing’ and ‘not knowing’,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “Voices of Tomorrow,” Oct. 31, 2013.
01 — “Die nukleare Anlagen von Hanford (1943–1987): Eine Fallstudie über die Schnittstellen von Physik, Biologie und die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges,” in Christian Forstner and Dieter Hoffmann, eds., Physik im Kalten Krieg (Berlin: Springer Spektrum, 2013), pp. 77–87.
Short essays & books reviews
12 — Giovanni Battimelli, Giovanni Ciccotti, and Pietro Greco’s Computer Meets Theoretical Physics: New Frontier of Molecular Simulation, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 2022, Vol. 113, No. 2, pp. 461–462.
11 — Hannah Marcus’ Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 2022, Vol. 113, No. 2, pp. 436–437.
10 — “Zucchi, Niccolò,” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Enciclopedia Treccani (2021).
09 — “Zamboni, Giuseppe,” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Enciclopedia Treccani (2021).
08 — “Margulis, Lynn,” in Hugh R. Slotten, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), Vol. 2, pp. 21–22.
07 — “Menard, Henry William,” in Hugh R. Slotten, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), vol. 2, pp. 78–79.
06 — Dom Paschal Scotti’s Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context, Reading Religion, March 31, 2018, online.
05 — David Norbrook, Stephen Harrison, and Philip Hardie’s Lucretius and the Early Modern, Renaissance Quarterly, 2017, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 249–251.
04 — Owen Gingerich’s God’s Planet, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2015, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 315–316.
03 — Keith Parsons’ It Started with Copernicus: Vital Questions about Science, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2015, Vol. 90, No. 2, p. 201.
02 — Crystal Hall’s Galileo’s Reading, Annali d’Italianistica, 2015, Vol. 33, pp. 459–461.
01 — Richard Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2012, Vol. 87, No. 4, p. 402.
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