Roland Wittje

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Associate Professor for the History of Science

President of the Scientific Instrument Commission (https://scientific-instrument-commission.org/) of the Division of History of Science and Technology / International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST)

I was Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Chennai, India from 2015 to 2023, and Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Regensburg, Germany from 2007 to 2014

My research interests include:

  • History of scientific instruments, collections, research technologies and scientific practice
  • History of the physical sciences and engineering of the late 19th and 20th century
  • History of science education and technical training
  • Indo-German collaboration in science and technology during the Cold War
  • History of arts and craft as technology in South India
  • History of acoustics, electromagnetism and nuclear physics

 

Publications

Wittje, Roland (2023). Relocating Education in the History of Science and Technology. History of Education. ISSN 0046-760X. 52(2-3), s. 462–478. doi: 10.1080/0046760X.2022.2141350.

  • Wittje, Roland (2023). Relocating Education in the History of Science and Technology. History of Education. ISSN 0046-760X. 52(2-3), p. 462–478. doi: 10.1080/0046760X.2022.2141350.
  • Wittje, Roland (2020). Wagner, Karl Willy. In Kraus, Hans-Christof (Eds.), Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 27. Duncker & Humblot. ISSN 978-3-428-11208-1. p. 253–254.
  • Wittje, Roland (2020). Absorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the Laboratory. In Tkaczyk, Viktoria; Mills, Mara & Hui, Alexandra (Ed.), Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197511121. p. 243–269. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197511121.001.0001.
  • Wittje, Roland (2020). The Establishment of IIT Madras: German Cold War Development Assistance and Engineering Education in India. Technikgeschichte. ISSN 0040-117X. 87(4), p. 335–357. doi: 10.5771/0040-117X-2020-4-335.
  • Wittje, Roland (2020). Noise: From Nuisance to Research Subject. Physics today. ISSN 0031-9228. 73(2), p. 42–48. doi: 10.1063/PT.3.4409.
  • Wittje, Roland (2020). Engineering Education in Cold War Diplomacy: India, Germany, and the Establishment of IIT Madras. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. ISSN 0170-6233. 43(4), p. 560–580. doi: 10.1002/bewi.202000014.
  • Wittje, Roland (2018). Physikalische Akustik. In Morat, Daniel & Ziemer, Hansjakob (Ed.), Handbuch Sound . Springer. ISSN 9783476054210. p. 151–154. doi: 10.1007/978-3-476-05421-0_27.
  • Wittje, Roland & Hagmann, Johannes-Geert (2017). Interview with Roland Wittje. In Boyle, Alison & Hagmann, Johannes-Geert (Ed.), Challenging Collections – Approaches to Recent Scientific and Technological Heritage. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISSN 978-1-944466-10-7. p. 223–227. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197511121.001.0001.
  • Wittje, Roland (2016). Selection Criteria for Recent Material Heritage of Science at Universities. In Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (Eds.), Enhancing University Heritage-Based Research. Proceedings of the XV Universeum Network Meeting, Hamburg, 12-14 June 2014. Nuncius Hamburgensis / ‎ Tredition. ISSN 978-3734527517. p. 273–276.
  • Wittje, Roland (2016). Kriterien für das Sammeln aus der Zeitgeschichte – Die Auswahlkriterien der Universeum Working Group on Recent Heritage of Science. In Zaun, Jörg & Vincenz, Kirsten (Ed.), Zwischen Kellerdepot und Forschungsolymp: Dokumentation der Diskussionspanels der 7. Sammlungstagung vom 17. bis 19. September 2015 an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg und der TU Dresden. TU Dresden/Kustodie. p. 14–16.
  • Wittje, Roland (2016). Ferdinand Trendelenburg, Neue Deutsche Biographie Bd. 26. Duncker & Humblot. ISSN 978-3-428-11295-1. p. 399–400.
  • Wittje, Roland (2016). Concepts and Significance of Noise in Acoustics: Before and after the Great War. Perspectives on Science. ISSN 1063-6145. 24(1), p. 7–28. doi: 10.1162/POSC_a_00189.
  • Wittje, Roland (2013). The Garching Nuclear Egg: Teaching Contemporary History Beyond the Linguistic Turn. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0039-3681. 44(4), p. 683–689. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2013.07.016.
  • Wittje, Roland (2013). The Electrical Imagination: Sound Analogies, Equivalent Circuits, and the Rise of Electroacoustics, 1863 – 1939. Osiris. ISSN 0369-7827. 28, p. 40–63. doi: 10.1086/671362.
  • Eggen, Per-Odd; Kvittingen, Lise; Lykknes, Annette & Wittje, Roland (2012). Reconstructing Iconic Experiments in Electrochemistry: Experiences from a History of Science Course. Science & Education. ISSN 0926-7220. 21(2), p. 179–189. doi: 10.1007/s11191-010-9316-1.
  • Heering, Peter & Wittje, Roland (2012). An Historical Perspective on Instruments and Experiments in Science Education. Science & Education. ISSN 0926-7220. 21, p. 151–155. doi: 10.1007/s11191-010-9334-z.
  • Wittje, Roland (2011). Simplex sigillum veri: Robert Pohl and Demonstration Experiments in Physics after the Great War, Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISSN 978-3-515-09842-7. p. 317–348.
  • Wittje, Roland (2010). XXth Century Scientific Heritage at Universities: Experiences and Perspectives. In Ballé, Catherine; Cuenca, Catherine & Thoulouze, Daniel (Ed.), Patrimoine scientifique et technique: Un projet contemporain. La Documentation française. ISSN 978-2110074805. p. 253–258.
  • Wittje, Roland (2010). Reading Artifacts: Historische Sammlungen und innovative Konzepte in der Lehre. In Weber, Cornelia & Mauersberger, Klaus (Ed.), Universitätsmuseen und -sammlungen im Hochschulalltag: Aufgaben – Konzepte – Perspektiven. Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. ISSN 978-3-86004-252-6. p. 79–86.
  • Soubiran, Sébastien; Lourenço, Marta; Wittje, Roland; Talas, Sofia & Bremer, Thomas (2009). Initiatives européennes et patrimoine universitaire. La Lettre de l’OCIM . ISSN 2108-646X. 123, p. 5–14. doi: 10.4000/ocim.229.
  • Wittje, Roland & Engels, Wolfgang (2008). What went on in the Laboratory? Replicating the Early Hertz Experiments. In Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (Eds.), Heinrich Hertz (1857 – 1894) and the Development of Communication. Nuncius Hamburgensis / ‎Books on Demand. ISSN 978-3837031416. p. 196–197.
  • Wittje, Roland (2007). Teknisk akustisk forskning i mellomkrigstida. In Børset, Bodil; Johansen, Jon-Arild & Wittje, Roland (Ed.), Etterklang - vitenskap, musikk og massemedia i elektroakustikkens tidsalder - Utstillingskatalog. Tapir Uttrykk. ISSN 9788271267582. p. 22–31.
  • Wittje, Roland (2007). Nuclear Physics in Norway, 1933 – 1955. Physics in Perspective. ISSN 1422-6944. 9(4), p. 406–433. doi: 10.1007/s00016-006-0317-z.
  • Wittje, Roland (2006). The foundation of N.T.H. in 1910 in international context. In Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard & Kragh Sørensen, Henrik (Ed.), Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-442-7. p. 111–132.
  • Wittje, Roland (2004). The use of centrifuges and ultracentrifuges in medical, chemical and microbiologic laboratories - A short history. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society. ISSN 0956-8271. 81, p. 20–25.
  • Wittje, Roland (2004). A proton accelerator in Trondheim in the 1930s. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. ISSN 0890-9997. 35(1), p. 115–152. doi: 10.1525/hsps.2004.35.1.115.
  • Wittje, Roland (2003). Centrifuge and ultracentrifuge. In [Mangler etternavn], [Mangler fornavn] (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, edited by John L. Heilbron. Oxford University Press. ISSN 0-19-511229-6. p. 135–136.
  • Wittje, Roland (2002). Local factors of the Van de Graaff generator project at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in the mid 1930s. In [Mangler etternavn], [Mangler fornavn] (Eds.), XVIII International Scientific Instrument Symposium. Moscow-St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-25 September 1999. Proceedings. Scientific publishing center *Engineer*. ISSN 5-8208-0031-1. p. 131–145.
  • Olsen, Haakon & Wittje, Roland (2001). Kjernefysikk i Norge - Arven fra Johan Holtsmark og Roald Tangen. Fra Fysikkens Verden. ISSN 0015-9247. 63(1), p. 22–24.
  • Wittje, Roland (2000). Experimentelle Tätigkeit und theoretische Konzepte: Heinrich Hertz zur elektrodynamischen Wirkung von Isolatoren. In Meinel, Christoph (Eds.), Instrument - Experiment: historische Studien. Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik. ISSN 3-928186-51-5. p. 180–191.
  • Wittje, Roland (2000). On the beginnings of nuclear physics in Norway - the Van de Graaff proton accelerator at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in the 1930s. Skrifter. ISSN 0368-6310. p. 166–180.

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  • Mouliou, Marlen; Soubiran, Sébastien; Wittje, Roland & Talas, Sofia (2018). Turning inside out European University Heritage: Collections, Audiences, Stakeholders. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press. ISBN 978-960-466-186-2. 368 p.
  • Wittje, Roland (2016). The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03526-2. 297 p.
  • Maison, Laetitia; Talas, Sofia & Wittje, Roland (2013). Shaping European University Heritage: Past and Possible Futures. Akademika Publishing. ISBN 978-82-321-0305-8. 167 p.
  • Heering, Peter & Wittje, Roland (2011). Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-09842-7. 362 p.
  • Børset, Bodil; Johansen, Jon-Arild & Wittje, Roland (2007). Etterklang - vitenskap, musikk og massemedia i elektroakustikkens tidsalder - Utstillingskatalog. Tapir Uttrykk. ISBN 9788271267582. 56 p.
  • Wittje, Roland & Nordal, Ola (2005). Universitetshistoriske samlinger ved NTNU - Rapport over kartleggingen av vitenskaps- og teknologihistoriske gjenstander og samlinger ved NTNU: perspektivet for bevaring og tilgjengeliggjøring for forskning, undervisning og formidling. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 8251920922. 163 p.

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