Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences

Schedule
May 10
6:30-8:30pm Welcome Reception
May 11
9:00am Welcome 9:10 Session 1 Chair: Michael Gordin, Princeton University Genco Guralp Johns Hopkins University Understanding The Hubble Wars, 1974-1993 Peter Susalla University of Wisconsin-Madison H.P. Robertson, Allan Sandage, and the Pedagogical History of Modern Cosmology L. Ruth Rand University of Pennsylvania Expanding the Exosphere: The Environmental Politics of Astronomy, 1958-1964 10:40 Coffee Break 11:00 Session 2 Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University Layne Karafantis Johns Hopkins University "Transformed science fiction into reality": the innovation of NASA's Mission Control Operations Room Joseph Martin University of Minnesota/Colby College How Physics Became "What Physicists Do": Defining a Discipline by Convention in the 1940s Clarissa Ai Ling Lee Duke University Semi-classical Speculative Turns in the Construction of the Standard Model of Particle Physics 12:30pm Lunch on one's own 2:00 Session 3 Chair: Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University Victoria Lee Princeton University Pure Culture: Traditional Industry and Agricultural Chemistry in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Daniel Liu University of Wisconsin-Madison Picturing Physical Chemistry in Biology: Molecules Before Molecular Biology, 1920-1950 Ann Robinson University of Massachusetts Amherst & PACHS "A Mind of Brilliant But Eccentric Characteristics": The Chemical Classification and Pedagogy of Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs 3:30 Coffee Break 3:50 Session 4 Chair: Richard Staley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Aimee Slaughter University of Minnesota American Radium Therapy, 1900-1910 Jeffrey Womack University of Houston Ethics of Uncertainty: Medicine, the Roentgen Ray, and the Erythema Dose Open Discussion 5:30-7:30 Social Hour
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