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University Professor Peter L. Galison cited his former student’s intellectual capabilities for science and the humanities...
...brings just the right combination of aptitude and innovation for the field,” Galison said...
...There was a time in the past when art and science weren’t divided,” said Peter L. Galison, a professor of History of Science. “If you asked Da Vinci if his studies of turbulence were science or art he would have said, ‘You’re nuts!’ It made no sense to make that division then...
...Harvard’s a very traditional university. There are many things I like about those traditions,” History of Science professor Peter L. Galison said. “But the curriculum is not a place where it’s a good or appropriate thing to simply invoke tradition...
...purpose of a documentary—and, some would hold, of art in general—is to make plain the unclear. “Secrecy,” the new documentary from History of Science professor Peter L. Galison ’77 and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Robb Moss, inverts this idea. It explores the U.S. government’s systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert...