Historical Physics Focused on Henri Poincaré,
French Physicists in the Belle Époque

Bruce D. Popp, PhD

Award-winning translator of Henri Poincaré.
cover of my first book, The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics

And author in historical physics. ORCID 0000-0001-9788-6466
cover of my second book, Henri Poincaré: Electrons to Special Relativity Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters, Journal for the History of Astronomy 53, no. 2 (May 2022): 141–62. A Flame War about Entropy, American Journal of Physics 93 (6). Contemporary Reaction to Gibbs's Statistical Mechanics, arXiv preprint 2412.11425v1 Poincaré on Gibbs and on Probability in Statistical Mechanics, arXiv preprint 2505.12168v1

I am active in historical physics research with a focus on the mathematical and scientific writings of Henri Poincaré. Currently I am wrting a book about the people and physics at the first Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels in October-November 1911.

Winner of the 2017 S. Edmund Berger Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation

Bruce D. Popp with Berger Prize Certificate and book: The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics
Bruce D. Popp with Berger Prize Certificate