Cathryn Carson

Cathryn Leigh Carson is a historian of science, known for her biography of Werner Heisenberg. She holds the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Carson in 2018

Education and career

Carson earned a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy of science in 1990 from the University of Chicago. She moved to Harvard University for graduate study, and completed her doctorate there in 1995.^[1] Her dissertation was Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany.^[2]

She joined the Berkeley history department in 1996.^[3] Carson was editor-in-chief of the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences from 2008 to 2013.^[3]

Book

Carson is the author of a biography of Werner Heisenberg, Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 2010).^[4]

Recognition

In 2014, Carson was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[5] She was given the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science in 2016.^[3]

References

1. "Cathryn Carson", Current Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
2. WorldCat catalog entry for Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany, retrieved 2019-05-06.
3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of California, Berkeley Department of History, retrieved 2019-05-06
4. Reviews of Heisenberg in the Atomic Age:
   • Gordin, Michael D. (September–October 2010), "The Sorrows of Old Werner", American Scientist, 98 (5): 426–428, JSTOR 27859572
   • Eisfeld, Rainer (October 2010), Rezension (in German), H-Soz-Kult, ISBN 9780521821704
   • Hentschel, Klaus (December 2010), "Heisenberg Contextualized", Isis, 101 (4): 843–845, doi:10.1086/657517, S2CID 146938061
   • Deltete, Robert J. (January 2011), Annals of Science, 70 (3): 419–422, doi:10.1080/00033790.2010.518770, S2CID 145352016{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Seth, Suman (February 2011), "Heisenberg in the "Public Sphere"", Science, New Series, 331 (6020): 1012, Bibcode:2011Sci...331.1012S, doi:10.1126/science.1201550, JSTOR 41075739, S2CID 144790924
   • Schirrmacher, Arne (May 2011), Rezensionen/Reviews, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 19 (2): 211–212, doi:10.1007/s00048-011-0050-9, PMID 21544561{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Thorpe, Charles (October 2011), The American Historical Review, 116 (4): 1217–1218, doi:10.1086/ahr.116.4.1217a, JSTOR 23308039{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Stanley, Matthew (June 2011), The British Journal for the History of Science, 44 (2): 308–309, doi:10.1017/S0007087411000525, JSTOR 41241675{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Harrison, Aaron (November 9, 2012), "Review", Berkeley Science Review
   • Beyerchen, Alan (December 2014), Central European History, 47 (4): 882–884, doi:10.1017/S0008938914002118, JSTOR 43965104, S2CID 146827944{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Lalli, Roberto (November 2015), Centaurus, 57 (4): 260–261, doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12101{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Smith, Isaac (November 30, 2014), "4 campus faculty members elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows", The Daily Californian