1st Edition

Science and Society: The History of Modern Physical Sciences in the Twentieth Century

    1400 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

    Biography

    Peter Galison is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and a premier authority in the field. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung. His is author of numerous works, including, most recently, Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge, 1998) and The Architecture of Science (MIT, 1999). Michael Gordin and David Kaiser are both at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.