Jean-Philippe MARTINEZ updated 03/24 4 May 1987, French Ph.D. in Epistemology, History of Science and Technology jeanphilippe.martinez@gmail.com +491.76.21.42.46.09 CURRENT STATUS § § § Research Assistant at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature – Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Postdoctoral Researcher of the DFG/FWF research unit The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider – Project A1: The formation and development of the concept of virtual particles. Ph.D. in Epistemology, History of Science and Technology of the University Sorbonne Paris Cité (prepared at the University Paris Diderot – Paris 7), France. Scientific interests: history and philosophy of 20th century physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, quantum field theory, high energy physics, computational physics); foundations of physics; interpretation debates; reduction and emergence; complexity; particle concept; virtuality; algebraic programs; Soviet science; Soviet history; Marxism; scientific institutions; cultural diplomacy… EDUCATION 2011–2017 University Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Ph.D. in Epistemology, History of Science and Technology § Vladimir Fock (1898-1974): Externalist Itinerary of an Internalist Thought. Antireductionism and Scientific Realism in Modern Physics (in French). Supervisors: Pr. Jan Lacki (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Pr. Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). Jury: Scott Walter (President/Reporter), Olival Freire (Reporter), Sophie Coeuré, Olivier Darrigol, Grégory Dufaud, Alexei Kojevnikov, Jan Lacki and Jim Ritter. 2009–2011 University Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Master’s Degree LOPHISS in History and Philosophy of Sciences (with honors). Research works supervised by Pr. Patrick Petitjean: § 2nd year: Lev Davidovitch Landau: Genesis of a scientific authority for the development of a paradigmatic school in theoretical physics (in French). § 1st year: Stalinist scientific mechanics at work at the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931 (in French). 2008–2009 University Paris-Sud XI First year of Master’s Degree in Fundamental Physics (not completed) 2005–2008 University of Pau and the Adour Region Bachelor’s Degree in Physics Bachelor’s Degree in History (last year not completed) PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Since 08/2020 Postdoctoral Researcher of the DFG/FWF research unit “The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider.” Project A1: The formation and development of the concept of virtual particles. • Since 08/2023: Research Assistant at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature – Technical University of Berlin, Germany. 1 • Between 08/2020 to 08/2023: Research Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology – RWTH Aachen University, Germany. 09/2019–12/2019 Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science at the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil), laboratory LACIC (Laboratório Ciência como Cultura) – CAPES PRINT fellowship. Project: Quantum mechanics in the USSR: epistemological foundations. 02/2018–06/2019 Postdoc in Philosophy of Science at the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil), laboratory LACIC (Laboratório Ciência como Cultura) – CNPq PDJ fellowship. Project: Antireductionism, Marxism and modern physics. 04/2015–12/2017 Assistant to Pr. Jan Lacki at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). 09/2014–11/2014 Visiting Researcher at the University of British-Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). AWARD 2023 Laureate of the inaugural IUPAP Early-Career Prize for the History of Physics. PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS: § Harlander R., and Martinez J.-P [2024]. The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams. The European Physical Journal H 49, 4. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00067-6 § Martinez J.-P. [online early] Virtuality in Modern Physics in the 1920s and 1930s: Meaning(s) of an Emerging Notion, Perspectives on Science. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00610 § Harlander R., Martinez J.-P., Schiemann G. [2023]. The End of the Particle Era? The European Physical Journal H 48, 6. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-023-00053-4 § Martinez J-P. [2022], Trajectoires internationales de physiciens soviétiques : la diplomatie comme compromis avec leurs autorités [International trajectories of Soviet physicists: Diplomacy as a compromise with their authorities], Cahiers du Monde Russe 63/1, 81–102. https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.13099 § Martinez J.-P. [2020], “La signification fondamentale des méthodes d’approximation en physique théorique” : Vladimir Fock épistémologue [“The Fundamental Signification of Approximation Methods in Theoretical Physics:” Vladimir Fock Epistemologist], Philosophia Scientiae, 24/2, 171–190. https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.2354 § Martinez J.-P. [2019], Beyond ideology: epistemological foundations of Vladimir Fock's approach to quantum theory, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte/History of Science and Humanities, 42/4, 400– 423. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.201900008 § Martinez J.-P. [2019], Soviet science as cultural diplomacy during the 1968 Tbilisi Conference on general relativity, Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University – History, 64, pp. 120–135. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.107 § Martinez J.-P. [2017], Beyond computational difficulties: Survey of the two decades from the elaboration to the extensive application of the Hartree-Fock method, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 60, 123–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.03.001 2 § Martinez J.-P. [2017], The Hartree-Fock method: from self-consistency to correct symmetry, Annalen der Physik, 529/1-2, 1600328. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201600328 BOOK CHAPTERS: § Martinez J.-P. [2022], Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union, in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Quantum Interpretations, edited by O. Freire Jr., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 667– 686. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198844495.013.0027 § Martinez J.-P., Freire Jr. O. [2020], Ecos da Dialética da natureza em físicos do século XX [Echoes of the Dialectics of Nature in 20th Century Physicists], in Engels, 200 anos. Ensaios de teoria social e política, edited by T. Rodrigues, São Paulo: Editora Anita Garibaldi, 113–127. § Martinez J.-P. [2020], The Fock-Infeld Dispute: An Illustration of the Renaissance of General Relativity in the Soviet Union, in The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, edited by A. Blum, R. Lalli and Renn J., Einstein Studies, Boston: Birkhäuser, 113–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50754-1_4 § Martinez J.-P. [2019], The “Mach argument” and its use by Vladimir Fock to criticize Einstein in the Soviet Union, in Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence, edited by F. Stadler, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 22, Springer International Publishing, 259–270. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-043780_20 EDITED VOLUME: § Harlander R., Martinez J.-P., Steinle F., and Adrian Wüthrich (eds.) [forthcoming], Virtual Entities in Science [Special Issue], Perspectives on Science. Include: Harlander R., Martinez J.-P., Steinle F., and Adrian Wüthrich [forthcoming], Preface: Virtual Entities in Science, Perspectives on Science. ARTICLES IN OTHER JOURNALS: § Martinez J.-P. [2017], Vladimir Fock (1898-1974): itinerário externalista de um pensamento internalista. Antirreducionismo e realismo científico na física moderna [Vladimir Fock (1898-1974): Externalist Itinerary of an Internalist Thought. Antireductionism and Scientific Realism in Modern Physics], translated from French by Hartz T., Boletim Eletrônico da Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência, 14 (also published in French). § Martinez J.-P., Lacki J. [2015], Vladimir Fock and the defense of modern theories in Soviet Union, Communications de la Société Suisse de Physique, 46, 41–45. PRESENTATIONS INVITED TALKS: 14/12/2023 “Does quantum mechanics contradict materialism?” A history of the foundations of Soviet theoretical physics (in French), Seminar of the CEA DAM, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France. 28/11/2023 Exploring virtuality: Lessons from the history of modern physics, I²SoS Kolloquium, Bielefeld University, Germany. 01/09/2023 Complexity in the History of Science, IUPAP Early Career Prize for the History of Physics Award Ceremony, Copenhagen, Denmark. 15/04/2023 Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union, Two days of history and epistemology of the foundations of Quantum Mechanics, University Paris Cité, France. 18/10/2019 Marxism and Quantum Mechanics: Plural Approaches (in Portuguese), Seminar of the Grupo de Teoria e História dos Conhecimentos, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 3 22/03/2019 The Approximation in the Calculation of the Wave Functions (in French), Session “Approximations : entre physique et calcul mécanique, le cas de Douglas R. Hartree (18971958),”seminar Approches historiques, philosophiques et anthropologiques des nombres, de la mesure et de la mesurabilité, Laboratory SPHERE, University Paris-Diderot, France. 15/03/2019 Statistical or purely probabilistic? Quantum Mechanics to the Test of Marxism (in French), Séminaire d'Histoire du Calcul des Probabilités et des Statistiques, EHESS, Paris, France. 05/10/2018 Making Science in an “Open World:” Considerations on the international Dynamics of Soviet Scientists through the Iconic Example of Vladimir Fock in General Relativity, Conference Governing Science, Governing by Science, Moscow, Russia. 01/08/2017 The Fock-Infeld Dispute on the Problem of Motion in General Relativity: From a Local to a Worldwide Scientific Debate, First Symposium on History of Physics of the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil. 09/06/2016 Quantum Dispute on the Baltic Sea: Fock versus Bohr, History Seminar, Niels Bohr Archives, Copenhagen, Denmark. ROUND-TABLE CONTRIBUTION: 17/01/2023 Negotiating Scientific Autonomy (in French), Study Day Sciences soviétiques. Nouvelles perspectives, nouveaux chantiers, Aubervilliers, France. OTHER TALKS (SELECTION): 18/10/2023 with Robert Harlander, The emergence of algebraic programs for the calculation of Feynman diagrams in high energy physics, 7th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, Warsaw, Poland. 03/09/2023 The strange concept that almost nobody seemed to be concerned about: virtual particles in the early post-war period, Fifth Biennial Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark. 19/04/2023 Feynman diagrams and meson theory: I love you... me neither (in French), Session “PostWorld War II physics: between ruptures and continuities,” XIVth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques, Bordeaux, France. 09/12/2022 with Karla Weingarten, What can history of physics teach us about current perceptions of the concept of virtual particles? International Conference on Large-Scale Experiments Reflecting on Theories and Practices, Karlsruhe, Germany. 18/11/2022 Effective or/and Possible? Historical Considerations on the Notion of Virtuality in Modern Physics, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA. 09/09/2022 The remodeling of theoretical physics across World War II seen through the emerging concept of virtual particle, The 10th Conference of the European Society of the History of Science (ESHS), Brussels, Belgium. 29/06/2022 At the crossroads of comic ray and nuclear physics: conceptual developments in particle physics in the 1930s and 1940s, History, Philosophy and Sociology of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Conference, Bonn, Germany. 30/07/2021 Virtual Particles: From Hideki Yukawa to Richard Feynman, 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic (online). 26/03/2021 Virtuality in nuclear physics (1930s-1940s): the many meanings of an emerging concept, Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop (online). 4 13/12/2019 The Soviet Union: Disunity Under the Banner of Marxism, Workshop Fundamentos e Interpretações da Mecânica Quântica. Aspectos Históricos e Conceituais, Salvador, Brazil. 03/09/2019 On the Roots of the Diversity of Marxist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (in Portuguese), I Encontro de História da Física, São Paulo, Brazil. 25/10/2018 Antireductionism, Marxism and Quantum Mechanics (in Portuguese), Thematic session “Filosofia da ciência,” XVIII Encontro Nacional do ANPOF, Vitória, Brazil. 09/10/2018 The 1968 Tbilisi Conference on General Relativity: when the ideal of an “open world” in science faced the reality of the Cold War, Conference Socialist Cultural Diplomacy of the XXth century: institutes, actors, discourses, Moscow, Russia. 25/08/2017 The 1955 Bern Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation: An Institutional Innovation, Joint Annual Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies, Geneva, Switzerland. 26/07/2017 Beyond Ideology: Mathematical and Epistemological Foundations of Vladimir Fock’s Approach to Quantum Theory – Considerations on a marginal quantum culture, Symposium “Quantum cultures,” 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 21/04/2017 Beyond Soviet Dogmatism: Scientific Coherence of the Interpretive Model of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity by Vladimir Fock (in French), Session “Beyond the Physical Problem: Differences and Similarities in the Approach of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity,” XIIth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques, Strasbourg, France. 18/06/2016 The ''Mach argument'' and its use by Vladimir Fock to criticize Einstein in Soviet Union, ERNST MACH CENTENARY CONFERENCE 2016 - Ernst Mach (1838-1916) – Life, Work, and Influence, Vienna, Austria. 17/07/2015 The Long Road of the Hartree-Fock Method, Fourth Conference on History of Quantum Physics, Saint-Sebastian, Spain. 30/04/2014 Reception of Quantum Physics and Relativity in the USSR: the Case of the Theorist Vladimir Fock (in French), Session “History of modern theoretical physics,” XIth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques, Lyon, France. 31/03/2014 “Does Quantum Mechanics contradict Materialism?” Vladimir Fock and the Soviet reception of quantum theory, “Global Science, Global Technology, Global Impact,” Second Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences, College Park, USA. 22/07/2013 Lev Landau: a “Purely Practical” Theoretical Physicist, Symposium “Headwinds through the Iron Curtain: fundamental and applied sciences in Communist Eastern Europe,” 24th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Manchester, Great Britain. TEACHING 10/2023 – 03/2024 Technical University of Berlin: Cultures of Modern Physics (bachelor and master, 30h) 01/2020 – 07/2020 Collège Jean-Marie Lonné d’Hagetmau : physical sciences (middle school, 90%). 02/05/2019 Federal University of Bahia: Guest lecturer (Postgraduate Program in Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science) for the course “Theories and Methods in History and Philosophy of Science” of the Prof. Olival Freire Jr. Theme presented: Reductionism and Emergentism (in Portuguese). 5 09/2011 – 06/2014 University Paris Diderot – Paris 7: Office Tools and Internet (in French, bachelor, 48h/semester for 5 semesters). STUDENT SUPERVISION 2021-2022 Karla Weingarten’s bachelor thesis, The Reality of Virtual Particles and the Question of Energy Conservation, RWTH Aachen University (defended on January 13, 2022). RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED 09/2023 Grant-in-aid of the Center for History of Physics – American Institute of Physics. Participation in the Fifth Biennial Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark. 09/2019 Fellowship of the CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – Brazil). Institutional Internationalization Program (PRINT), Post-Doctorate with Experience Abroad. 02/2017 Fellowship of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – Brazil). Junior Post-doctorate in Philosophy of science. 07/2017 Scholarship of the French National Committee of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Participation in the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 09/2014 Fellowship of the Institute of Doctoral Studies of the University Paris 7 – Paris Diderot. International mobility of Ph.D. students – Cultural areas. Financing short-term research stay (12 weeks) in Vancouver, Canada. 03/2014 Grant-in-aid of the Center for History of Physics – American Institute of Physics. Participation in the Second Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences, College Park, USA. 07/2013 Scholarship of the French National Committee of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Participation in the 24th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK. 04/2013 Short-term fellowship of the Center for Russian-French Studies in Moscow. Research in various Russian Archives. ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC RESPONSABILITIES WORKING GROUPS: 05/2016–2020 Participant of the project The Renaissance of General Relativity in the Post-World War II Period led by Blum A., Lalli R., and Renn J. at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/project/renaissance-general-relativity ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS: 19/04/2023 Co-organizer with Justin Gabriel: Session “Post-World War II physics: between ruptures and continuities” (in French), XIVth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques, Bordeaux, France. 10/12/2022 Co-organizer with Robert Harlander, Friedrich Steinle and Adrian Wüthrich: Symposium “Histories of Large Experiments and Their Methodological Challenges,” International Conference on Large-Scale Experiments - Reflecting on Theories and Practices, Karlsruhe, Germany. 6 13-20/03/2022 Co-organizer with Daria Jadreškić, Niels Martens and Helene Sorgner: Working Group “Material Culture of Large Physics Experiments,” Spring School The History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Large Physics Experiments, Wuppertal, Germany. 5, 12, 19 and 26/03/2021 Co-organizer with Robert Harlander, Friedrich Steinle and Adrian Wüthrich: Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop, online event. 17-20/10/2018 Co-organizer with Jenifer Barton, Joanna Behrman, Gabriel Henderson, and Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha: 4th Early Career Conference on History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, San Sebastian, Spain. 21/04/2017 Co-organizer with Virgile Besson: Session “Beyond the Physical Problem: Differences and Similarities in the Approach of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity” (in French), XIIth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques, Strasbourg, France. MEMBER OF JURY: 19/12/2018 Master’s qualification examination (qualificação de mestrado) of Jakelyne Lima Dos Reis: A history of special relativity and cubism: circulation of ideas in the XIXth and XXth century transition (in Portuguese). Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. SCHOLARLY REVIEWS: 07/2023 09/2020 07/2020 08/2019 Guest reviewer for Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences. Guest reviewer for Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Guest reviewer for Philosophia Scientiae. Guest reviewer for Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. LANGUAGE SKILLS AND OTHERS § § § § § § § French: native language English: fluent (speaking, reading, writing) Portuguese: fluent (reading, speaking, writing) Spanish: fluent (reading), basic (speaking, writing) Russian: intermediate (reading), basic (speaking, writing) German: beginner (speaking, reading, writing) Notions of Latin and ancient Greek § International experience in archival research (Russia, USA, England, Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland). 7