Jaume Navarro

Ikerbasque Research Professor, EHU

Ikerbasque research professor at the Praxis Group at the Faculty of Philosophy, EHU

Research line:

History of science, especially history of the physical sciences

Researcher at the universities of Cambridge, Imperial College (London) and the Max Planck Institute fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin)

Doctor in the History of Science from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (1998)

2025

Article / Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism. Thoughts of a convert

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Navarro, J.

2024

Book / Globalizing Physics. One Hundred Years of the IUPAP

Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro

Book / Science, Religion and Nationalism

Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis

Book / Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Globalizing Physics One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Lalli, R.; Navarro, J.

Chapter / “The ‘happy thirties’? Millikan’s troubled presidency of IUPAP”

Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / “Building a nation. Spanish Engineers in the Science-and-Religion narratives”

Science, Religion and Nationalism

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / “Globalizing physics: one hundred years of the IUPAP. An Introductory essay”

Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro

Chapter / “Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the entanglement of mythical narratives”

Science, Religion and Nationalism

Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis

Article / EDMUND T. WHITTAKER, PHYSICS and CATHOLICISM. THOUGHTS of A CONVERT

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Navarro, J.

Editorial / Introduction Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. An Introductory Essay

Globalizing Physics One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Lalli, R.; Navarro, J.

2023

Chapter / “Evolution in times of political transformation. Science, Religion, and the Media in Restoration Spain (1874-1898)”

Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions. National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800-1920

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / “Science, Religion, and the Creation of Historiographical Categories”

Handbook for the Historiography of Science. Historiographies of Science

o Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis

Article / “Hacking on Unity, or How to Pluralize the History and Philosophy of the Sciences”

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science

o Pascual-Alba, J., Navarro, J.

Article / What’s in a name?: On the latest attempts to revive an Æther

European Physical Journal H

Monfort-Urkizu, B.; Navarro, J.

Review / ‘Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960). A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America. Miguel de Asúa. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 365pp. $118.99. (Hardcover)’

Zygon

Jaume Navarro

2022

Book / Ciencia-Religión y sus Tradiciones Inventadas. Un recorrido historiográfico

Jaume Navarro

Article / - ‘Los Cielos y los Mares. Astronomía, Navegación y Visión del Mundo en tiempos de Juan Sebastián Elcano’

Trepanos

Jaume Navarro

Article / ‘100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics’

Nature Reviews Physics

Roberto Lalli, Jaume Navarro

Note / 100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics

Nature Reviews Physics

Lalli, R.; Navarro, J.

2021

Article / Whittaker, Einstein, and the History of the Aether: Alternative interpretation, blunder, or bigotry?

History of Science

Navarro, J.

Article / Killed by its own obituaries: Explaining the demise of the ether

Science in Context

Navarro, J.

Editorial / How scientific objects end

Science in Context

Navarro, J.

2020

Chapter / “Biography or Obituary? The historiographical value of the death of the ether”

Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, and Organisations

Jaume Navarro

Review / ‘Why do people mistrust science? Review on Robert P. Crease’s The Workshop and the World’

Physics Today

Jaume Navarro

2018

Book / Ether and Modernity. The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the early twentieth century

Oxford University Press

Jaume Navarro (ed.)

Chapter / So What's New About Scholasticism? How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

Rajesh Heynickx and Stéphane Symons

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / Ether and Modernity. The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the early twentieth century

Jaume Navarro

Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro

Article / Imaging by touching: Atomic force microscopy

Philosophy of Photography

Gustavo Schwartz and Jaume Navarro

Article / How to Use a Fundamental Discovery in Physics: The Early Days of Electron Diffraction

Science in Context

Navarro, J.

2017

Book / On the History of the Quantum, HQ4 in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Volume 60, Pages 1-148

Elsevier

Jaume Navarro, Alexander Blum and Christoph Lehner (editors)

Article / Promising redemption. Science at the service of secular and religious agendas

Centaurus

Navarro, J.

Article / The promises of science. Historical perspectives

Centaurus

Mülberger, A.; Navarro, J.

2016

Chapter / Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries

Bettina-Johanna Krings, Hannot Rodríguez and Anna Schleisiek

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / Hacer Mundo(s) con Representaciones

Ibarra, A. and Txapartegi, E.

Gustavo A Schwartz and Jaume Navarro

2015

Chapter / Sciences in the Universities of Europe, 19th and 20th Century. Academic Landscapes

Ana Simoes, Maria Paula Diogo and Kostas Gavroglu

Jaume Navarro

Chapter / One hundred years of the Bohr atom: Proceedings from a conference

Finn Aaserud and Helge Kragh

Jaume Navarro

2014

Article / Book Review: ‘Wazeck, Milena, Einstein’s Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s’

British Journal for the History of Science

Jaume Navarro

Article / - Book Review: ‘Jed D. Buchwald; Robert Fox (Editors). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics’

ISIS

Jaume Navarro

Article / Book Review: ‘Schweber, Silvian S., Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe’

British Journal for the History of Science

Jaume Navarro

Article / Book Review: ‘Herrán, Néstor and Xavier Roqué (eds.) La física de la dictadura. Físicos, cultura y poder en España 1939-1975’

Dynamis

Jaume Navarro

2013

Book / Research and Pedagogy. A History of Quantum Physics and its early Textbooks

Badino, Massimiliano and Navarro, Jaume

Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro

Chapter / Research and Pedagogy. A History of Quantum Physics and its early Textbooks

Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro

Chapter / Research and Pedagogy. A History of Quantum Physics and its early Textbooks

Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro

Jaume Navarro

2012

Book / A History of the Electron. J.J. and G.P. Thomson

Jaume Navarro

Book / Niels Bohr. El átomo cuántico

RBA editores

Jaume Navarro

Article / Book Review: ‘Agustí Nieto-Galán. Los Públicos de la Ciencia. Expertos y Profanos a través de la Historia’

ISIS

Jaume Navarro

2011

Article / Book review: ‘Joao Magueijo. A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinay Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age’

ISIS

Jaume Navarro

Ingenieros Constructores de España (1874-1939): modernización y europeización en el cambio de siglo

Universidad del Pais Vasco

Javier Sierra de la Torre - In preparation

La relevancia de la Epistemología Histórica para la filosofía de la ciencia actual. El caso del éter como objeto epistémico persistente

Universidad del Pais Vasco

Urko Gorriñobeaskoa - In preparation

Física fundamental y postempirismo. La plausibilidad de las teorías físicas contemporáneas sin confirmación empírica

University of the Basque Country

Beñat Montfort Urkizu - In preparation

Filosofías pluralistas de la ciencia: clasificación filosófica, aplicación histórica y revisión crítica para un nuevo pluralismo multidimensional

University of the Basque Country

Joseba Pascual Alba - In preparation

El antropoceno como concepto científico: un enfoque integrativo de su historia y axiología

Universidad del Pais Vasco

Jose Luis Granados - Finished

2023

“Beyond the Headlines: Dissecting the Complexities of Science Denial in Contemporary Discourse”

UPV/EHU

2021

Fundamental Physics and Post-Empiricism The plausibility of contemporary theories with no empirical confirmation

University of the Basque Country

2020

Tensiones y oportunidades de las herramientas discursivas utilizadas para divulgar la historia de la ciencia moderna. El caso del Blog Mujeres con ciencia de la Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la UPV-EHU

2019

Realismo cienti?fico y Simulaciones Computacionales. Una extensio?n de Ian Hacking en el Mundo Virtual

Universidad del Pais Vasco

De dos a mu?ltiples culturas. Ana?lisis histo?rico de un no-problema

Universidad del Pais Vasco

2018

Siempre hemos sido tecnocienti?ficos. Ana?lisis histo?rico y filoso?fico de la idea de tecnociencia

Universidad del Pais Vasco

2022

Historia de la Ciencia. (Master Degree at UPV/EHU)

Invited Lecturer at Summer School on Science, Religion and Orthodoxy, organized by the Hellenic Research Foundation, 13-17 June, 2022

Invited lecturer at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo (Uruguay). Courses: History of Science and Philosophy of Science

2021

Historia de la Ciencia. (Master Degree at UPV/EHU)

2020

Historia de la Ciencia, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

Historia y Filosofía de las Ciencias (1,5) 4th year Philosophy Degree, UPV/EHU

2019

Historia de la Ciencia, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

Conocimiento y Valores, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

2018

Historia de la Ciencia, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

Conocimiento y Valores, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

2017

Historia de la Ciencia, 2 credits, Masters Degree "Filosofia Ciencia y Valores", UPV/EHU

"Science and Religion. Historiographical approaches", Masters Degree, University of Tel Aviv

2016

History of Science (Masters Degree: 20 hours, at the University of the Basque Country)

2012

Masters Degree: "Historia de la Ciencia"

2021

Elected President of the new Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics in the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2021-2024)

2017

Elected President of the Commission for the History of Physics in the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2017-2021)

2016

From September 2016: Member of the Commission for the Masters Degree in "Philosophy, Science and Values", a joint masters between the University of the Basque Country, the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico and the Universidad Carlos III.

2023

Conference organization | Convener of three panels (9 papers) on “Science-Religion-Atheism. An historical approach to the configuration of scientific atheism”

Annual Conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society - Conference organization

Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis

Invited talk | “A physicist confronts religious pluralism: Edmund T. Whittaker (1873-1956)”

Weekly colloquium - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Ciencia, Religión y Nacionalismo”

Invited Speaker at the Contemporary History Group, - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Explicando la muerte del éter”

monthly seminar on the history of science, Sociedad Española de Óptica - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Ciencia, Religión y sus Tradiciones Inventadas”

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Ciencia, Religión y sus Tradiciones Inventadas”

Invited speaker at the monthly seminar Institut Lopez Piñero - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Ciencia, Religión y sus Tradiciones Inventadas”

Invited speaker at the monthly seminar of CRYF - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Colony or Independent? A comparative study of “science” qua ideology in the independence of Latin-American nations.”

“Scientism and Empire Workshop” - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism. The thoughts of a convert”

2nd Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Teaching science through atheism; promoting atheism through science”

Annual Conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2022

Conference organization | One Hundred Years of IUPAP. A workshop

One Hundred Years of IUPAP. A workshop - Conference organization

Roberto Lalli, Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Science, Religion and Nationalism. A historiographical proposal”

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “A dream in waiting: the first two decades of the IUPAP”

Symposium on the Centenary of the IUPAP, Trieste 11-13 July 2022 - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Explicando el final del éter. Una aproximación desde la epistemología histórica”

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Ciencia, Religión y sus Tradiciones Inventadas. Una propuesta historiográfica”

Annual Meeting of the Philosophy and History of Science Group, Montevideo - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | The “happy thirties”? Millikan’s troubled presidency of IUPAP

One Hundred Years of IUPAP. A workshop - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Science, Religion and Atheism in fin de siècle Spanish Anarchism”

10th Bi-annual conference of the European Society for the History of Science - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Science, Religion and Atheism in fin de siècle Spanish Anarchism”

- 2022 Annual Conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Edmund T. Whittaker, Einstein and the History of the Ether”

4th International Conference on the History of Physics - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2021

Invited talk | Evolution in times of political transformations. Science, religion and the media in Restoration Spain (1874-1898)

Global History of Evolution and Religion - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | Whittaker, Einstein and the History of the Ether. Alternative interpretation, blunder or bigotry?

IUHPST/DHST Conference - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | Building a Nation. Science-and-religion and engineering institutions in Spain

- STEMM and Belief in Diverse Contexts: Publics, Praxis, Policy and Pluralism. Annual Conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2020

Invited talk | Whittaker, Einstein and the History of the Ether. Alternative interpretation, blunder or bigotry?

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | Edmund T. Whittaker, Einstein and anti-Semitism

Bi-annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Science - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2019

Invited talk | “How did the ether disappear?”

Invited seminar at the MPIWG, Berlin - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | Nationalisms at the root of the science-and-religion disputes. The Spanish case

- First annual conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

2018

Invited talk | A biographical sketch of the last days of the ether

Biographies in the History of Physics - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “The historiographical relevance of the early obituaries of the ether.”

“How scientific objects end. A workshop” - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Draper in Spain. The conflicting circulation of the conflict thesis.”

- ESHS2018, European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018 in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science London, 14-17 September - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2017

Conference organization | Ether and Wireless

Ether and Modernity - Conference organization

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “True Science” in Catholic journals in fin-de-siècle Spain: A matter of faith, reason and legitimacies

New Perspectives on Science and Religion in Society - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | The ether in the 1920s: a case for pluralism in the sciences

- 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2016

Invited talk | Physics, Chemistry and the Remnants of the Physical Sciences in Late-Nineteenth Century Cambridge

Phases of Physics - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | The ether in physics after the death of the ether

2nd International Conference of the History of Physics - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2015

Conference organization | Organizing Committee

Fourth Conference on the History of Quantum Physics - Conference organization

Jaume Navarro, Jurgen Renn, Christoph Lehner, Christian Joas, Iñaki SanPedro and

Invited talk | “One phenomenon, three settings. The early days of electron diffraction”

Interactions of Interwar Physics: Technology, Instruments and Other Sciences - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | “Science contra Science. The battle for legitimate knowledge in the Spanish Catholic Journals in the early twentieth century”

Reasessing a Thought System. Neo-thomism in the twentieth century - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “The many faces of the ether in early twentieth-century physics”

Annual HSS Meeting - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2014

Conference organization | Science at the Service of Secular and Religious Agendas

The Promises of Science. Historical Perspectives - Conference organization

Jaume Navarro

Conference organization | Ether and Wireless. An old medium in new media.

The Lure of the Ether - Conference organization

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | Ciencia, Guerra y Religión en España durante la Guran Guerra

XII Congreso de la Sociedad Epañola de Historia de la Ciencia - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | Explaining the demise of the ether

6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Lisboa 4-6 September, 2014 - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Invited talk | After the Syllabus Errorum. Revisiting Science and Religion in the late Nineteenth Century

9th STPS Meeting, Lisboa, 1-3 September 2014 - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

2013

Oral presentation | Niels Bohr in Manchester. A hundred years of the quantum atom

International Brandt Ritchie Workshop of Physics - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Explaining the Demise of the Ether”

Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “From electron diffraction to electron cameras. George Paget Thomson at Imperial College in the early 1930s”.

- 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “Plum-puddings and Bohr’s atom”

100 Years of Bohr’s Atom, Copenhagen, 11-14 June - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2012

Invited talk | Boundaries in the Physical Sciences

Summer School ‘Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries’ - Invited talk

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “A British physical ‘corpuscle’ travels to American Chemistry. J.J. Thomson’s 1923 trip to Philadelphia”

5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “A father of physical chemistry: J.J. Thomson in Philadelphia”

7th British-Northamerican Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS and HSS - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

Oral presentation | “When the Centre becomes Periphery: Early Quantum Physics in Cambridge”

8th STEP Meeting - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro

2005

Oral presentation | The circulation of the conflict thesis as a political tool in fin-de-siècle Spain

Annual HSS Meeting - Oral presentation

Jaume Navarro