DANIELE MACUGLIA

Assistant Professor of History of Science

website: www.danielemacuglia.com

Education

Ph.D., History of Science, The University of Chicago, 2016

Research

History of computational science, computational methods in statistical mechanics

Courses

History of physics

Science, technology and society

Historical methods (especially quantitative methods)

Selected Publications

“SHAKE and the Exact Constraint Satisfaction of the Dynamics of Semi-Rigid Molecules in Cartesian Coordinates, 1973-1977,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2023, vol. 77, article number 5.

“The Emergence of Protein Dynamics Simulations: How Computational Statistical Mechanics Met Biochemistry,” with Benoît Roux and Giovanni Ciccotti. European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 2022, Vol. 47, article number 13.

“The Universe: A Book Written in the Mathematical—and the Programming–—Language,” Il Nuovo Cimento C, 2021, Vol. 44, No. 1, article number 25.

“The Breakthrough of a Quantum Chemist by Classical Dynamics: Martin Karplus and the Birth of Computer Simulations of Chemical Reactions,” with Benoît Roux and Giovanni Ciccotti. European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, 2021, Vol. 46, article number 12.