Alex Wellerstein | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Education | UC Berkeley (B.A.) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939-2008 (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Galison |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | History of nuclear weapons,History of science and technology |
| Institutions | Stevens Institute of Technology American Institute of Physics |
Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. He is the creator of NUKEMAP. [1] [2] [3]
Wellerstein grew up in Stockton,California. He received a Bachelors of Arts in history from University of California,Berkeley in 2002 and a doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University in 2010. He was once a graduate fellow for the United States Department of Energy,a lecturer at Harvard University,a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School,and an associate historian at the American Institute of Physics. Since 2014,he has been a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. [1] [4]
In 2021,his book Restricted Data:The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States was published by the University of Chicago Press. [5]
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