Cathryn Carson

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Cathryn Leigh Carson is an American 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]

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References

  1. "Cathryn Carson", Current Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
  4. Reviews of Heisenberg in the Atomic Age:
  5. Smith, Isaac (November 30, 2014), "4 campus faculty members elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows", The Daily Californian