Cathryn Carson
Cathryn Leigh Carson is a historian of science, known for her biography of Werner Heisenberg. She holds the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Education and career
Carson earned a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy of science in 1990 from the University of Chicago. She moved to Harvard University for graduate study, and completed her doctorate there in 1995.[1] Her dissertation was Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany.[2]
She joined the Berkeley history department in 1996.[3] Carson was editor-in-chief of the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences from 2008 to 2013.[3]
Book
Carson is the author of a biography of Werner Heisenberg, Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 2010).[4]
Recognition
In 2014, Carson was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5] She was given the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science in 2016.[3]
References
- "Cathryn Carson", Current Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
- WorldCat catalog entry for Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany, retrieved 2019-05-06.
- Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
- Reviews of Heisenberg in the Atomic Age:
- Gordin, Michael D. (September–October 2010), "The Sorrows of Old Werner", American Scientist, 98 (5): 426–428, JSTOR 27859572
- Eisfeld, Rainer (October 2010), Rezension (in German), H-Soz-Kult
- Hentschel, Klaus (December 2010), "Heisenberg Contextualized", Isis, 101 (4): 843–845, doi:10.1086/657517, S2CID 146938061
- Deltete, Robert J. (January 2011), Annals of Science, 70 (3): 419–422, doi:10.1080/00033790.2010.518770, S2CID 145352016CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Seth, Suman (February 2011), "Heisenberg in the "Public Sphere"", Science, New Series, 331 (6020): 1012, Bibcode:2011Sci...331.1012S, doi:10.1126/science.1201550, JSTOR 41075739, S2CID 144790924
- Schirrmacher, Arne (May 2011), Rezensionen/Reviews, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 19 (2): 211–212, doi:10.1007/s00048-011-0050-9, PMID 21544561CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Thorpe, Charles (October 2011), The American Historical Review, 116 (4): 1217–1218, doi:10.1086/ahr.116.4.1217a, JSTOR 23308039CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Stanley, Matthew (June 2011), The British Journal for the History of Science, 44 (2): 308–309, doi:10.1017/S0007087411000525, JSTOR 41241675CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Harrison, Aaron (November 9, 2012), "Review", Berkeley Science Review
- Beyerchen, Alan (December 2014), Central European History, 47 (4): 882–884, doi:10.1017/S0008938914002118, JSTOR 43965104CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Lalli, Roberto (November 2015), Centaurus, 57 (4): 260–261, doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12101CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Smith, Isaac (November 30, 2014), "4 campus faculty members elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows", The Daily Californian