Princeton History of Science

The Program in History of Science at Princeton University trains students to analyze science, medicine, and technology in historical and cultural context.

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We have merged our History of Science and History Department social media accounts. For information on the History of Science program, students, and faculty follow @PrincetonHist.

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Monday, April 24

Can a Simple Test in Bacteria Identify Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Humans?
By Angela N. H. Creager with comments by Austen Van Burns

https://t.co/TaagAHJa86

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April 17, 2023

Building a Socialist Pharmaceutical Industry: The Transnational Making of Antibiotics in Mao’s China
By Yang Li with comments by Alice Hong

🔗https://t.co/4pASgAskCd

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April 10, 3:00pm

Dichotic Listening, the Cocktail Party Problem, and the Filter Theory of Attention
By D. Graham Burnett with comments by Anin Luo

https://t.co/nDkZyorigB

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Congratulations to Kathryn Maxson Jones HOS '21! She is one of the 2023 winners of the Dissertation Prize from the Division of the History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

https://t.co/rXLfOxFKPj

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April 3, 3:00pm

Prospectus by Alice Hong; comments Jonathan Victor Baldoza

Book Proposal by Michael D. Gordin; comments Julian Chehirian

https://t.co/3hhEpC5pwo

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March 27, 3:00pm

Marketing a Socio-Legal Imaginary:
Technology, Freedom, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1962

By Haris Durrani with comments by Jack Klempay

🔗https://t.co/RGuFHhvHVi

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March 20, 3:00pm

“Reagan Science Policy Versus the Atari Democrats”: Bipartisan Convergence Around Industrial Policy and Technology Policy, 1983-1984

By Julia Marino with comments by Beth Fricker

https://t.co/xsOcbjxe3U

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Justine Holzman, HOS graduate student, featured in the Princeton University article "Princeton on ice: Documenting climate change at the ends of the Earth" about Anne McClintock's research on melting glaciers.

https://t.co/nowLSkp9Vu

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March 6, 2023

Smallpox Inoculation in Slavery and Freedom: Toward an Atlantic History of the Jamaican Smallpox Epidemic of 1768

By Elise Mitchell with comments by Anna Speyart

🔗https://t.co/xMc3Y3I0CB

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February 27, 2023

Matters of record: film, paper, and the “bureaucratic media” of radiation protection at nuclear test sites

By Jack Klempay with comments by Iason Stathatos

🔗https://t.co/06QymRlweD

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March 1 at 4:30pm
Jeremy Blatter joins us for his colloquium on"Re-Animating Experimental Psychology: Media Archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the 'Testing the Mind' Film Series"

🔗details & rsvp: https://t.co/NdsD57YBm2

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February 20, 2023

The Spectroscopic Imagination and the Occult in the writings of Camille Flammarion
By Jonas Staehelin with comments by Chandler Allen

🔗https://t.co/b7Q7Y9Ej4f

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Acceptance and Simplicity: Understanding Mathematical and Physical Responses to Einstein's Theories of Relativity

By Elisabeth Fricker with comments by Tiffany Nichols

🔗https://t.co/5lNp30kCTa

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TODAY: Angela Creager @PrincetonHOS will speak at our first spring ’23 HMEI Faculty Seminar!

12:30 in Guyot 10 w/ lunch at noon in the Guyot Atrium. Non-PUID holders, register 👉 https://t.co/M28ovW5Mhm

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February 6, 2023

Quiet Down: Physicists’ Attempts to Remove Preexisting Land Uses from Candidate Sites for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

By Tiffany Nichols with comments by Julia Marino

🔗https://t.co/fnBs8UqXQx

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Join us in person for the History of Science Annual Workshop!

Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences

🔗Register at https://t.co/ZXSHRDwfUt.

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TODAY at 4:30pm
Courtney Stephens (@Courtneycolt) joins us for a screen of the archival film TERRA FEMME with a live narration.

🔗details & rsvp: https://t.co/FVHdllR5iB

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Join us in person for the History of Science Annual Workshop!

Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences

🔗Register at https://t.co/ZXSHRDwfUt.

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December 5, 2022

A “Schleiermacherian” Politics of Science: A Sketch
By Enoch Kuo with comments by Beth Fricker

🔗https://t.co/yIm26Po8o6