Le origini politico-istituzionali del Gruppo Nazionale di Storia della Fisica

This preliminary investigation aims at outlining the main politicalinstitutional reasons that led to the establishment of a unitary National Group for the History of Physics in Italy. I will show how the process of institutionalization of the history of physics in Italy has been animated by a double tension: on the one hand, the political-epistemological debate on the neutrality and non-neutrality of science and, on the other hand, the epistemological- institutional dispute between historians of science with a humanistic background and historians of physics with a scientific education