Word: galison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relationship [between history and science]is not evident," says Peter Galison, professor ofthe history of science. "That integrative processis what is so difficult to do well. We're tryingto do something that's really fairly unusual--notto just have it become a major and minor...
...Peter L. Galison '77, a historian of 20th century physics, was tenured in 1991 by the History of Science Department. But he wouldn't accept the Harvard offer until officials secured a position for his site--who is now a professor of fine arts at Boston University...
...Galison and Schauer are success stories for Harvard. But the University also loses some battles for top names. The Schama case is just one example...
That service is a fundamental part of what Rosenkrantz has achieved at Harvard, says Peter L. Galison '77, professor of the history of science...
...sometimes base discoveries on a single observation, more often they must rely on multiple events to build a case. Thus a second intriguing event, recorded by the Collider Detector in December, has come under especially intense scrutiny. The discovery of the top will no doubt emerge gradually, believes Peter Galison, a science historian at Harvard. "The expanding circle of belief," he says, "must start inside the experimental collaboration and then widen to include the whole physics community." How long this process will take, no one can gauge, for it depends not only on scientific ingenuity but also on the whims...