Rate Professor Peter Galison

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in History of Science and Physics, Harvard University, 1983.

Research Interests: History and philosophy of science, physics, and technology; visual studies.

Appointments: Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Black Hole Initiative.

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, 1997; Max Planck Research Award, 1999.

Publications:

• Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (University of Chicago Press, 1997).
• Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps (W.W. Norton, 2003).

Additional Contributions: Co-produced documentary films, including Secrecy (2008).