Kostas Gavroglu is a professor of history of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Athens University. He is also the Director of the Laboratory for the Electronic Processing of Historical Archives. He has worked on topics related with the history of low temperature physics and the history of quantum chemistry. His books include Methodological Aspects of the Development of Low Temperature Physics with Yorgos Goudaroulis (Kluwer Publishers, 1989), Fritz London, A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 1995). He has been guest editor for the special issue on "Theoretical Chemistry in the Making: Appropriating Concepts and Legitimizing Techniques" of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, December 2000. He is currently working on the history of artificial cold and also on the problems related to the introduction of the scientific ideas in 18th century Greece.
kgavro@cc.uoa.gr