Russell McCormmach

Russell Keith McCormmach (born 9 October 1933) is an American historian of physics.

Early life and education McCormmach grew up in Walla Walla, Washington, and studied physics at Washington State College, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1955. As a Rhodes Scholar, he studied politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Oxford, earning a second bachelor's degree in 1959. He worked as an electronics engineer at Bell Laboratories before receiving a Ph.D. in the history of science from Case Institute of Technology in 1967 under Martin J. Klein. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University until 1983, and later at the University of Oregon, where he is professor emeritus. and in 2010 the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics from the American Physical Society. vol. II The now mighty theoretical physics 1870-1925, with Christa Jungnickel: Cavendish. American Philosophical Society, 1996 with Christa Jungnickel: Cavendish - the Experimental Life, Bucknell University Press 1999, Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science. Oxford University Press 2004, Weighing the World. The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill. Springer, Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York 2012, , e- Power Lines: Giant Hydroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest, an Era and a Career. Palimpsest Books, 2012, The Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities. Vol. 36. Springer 2014, with Christa Jungnickel: The Second Physicist: On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany. Springer, 2017 (a revised and shortened version of The Intellectual Mastery of Nature with a new introduction), Constellations: A Scientific Novel. Independently Published, 2020.