Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections
Cathryn Carson (contributing author, editor) is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked on the history of quantum field theory and on the public role of the scientist after the Second World War, focusing on Werner Heisenberg. Her current project is a history of the science behind nuclear waste management, while her teaching centers on the history of physics, science in Germany and the United States, and nuclear history. David A. Hollinger (contributing author, editor) is Department Chair and Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books includeCosmopolitanism and solidarity: Studies in group affiliation in the United States(Wisconsin, 2006) andScience, Jews, and secular culture(Princeton, 1996). He is also the editor ofThe humanities and dynamics of inclusion after World War II(Johns Hopkins, 2006). His recent articles have appeared inChurch history,Harper’s,Modern intellectual history, andThe Cambridge history of science.