Bakgrunn
1971 B.S. New York University
1978 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
1989-97 Prof, History & Science Studies, UC-San Diego
1991-93 Director, Science Studies, UC-San Diego
1994 Segerstedt Chair History of Higher Education, Uppsala
1997-00 Researcher, Forum for University History, Univ. Oslo
2000-09 Prof, History of Science, Humanities, Univ.Oslo
2004 Fellow, Inst. of Advanced Studies, Univ of Bologna
2009 Tetelman Fellow, J. Edwards College, Yale University
2010-19 Professor, IAKH, UiO
2011-13 Associate Research Scholar, Johns Hopkins Univ
2011-13 Prof II, Institute for historie, Univ Tromsø
2015 Fellow, M. Planck Inst f Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
2016 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
2019- Professor emeritus, IAKH, UiO
Professional member: Dramatists Guild of America og Dramatikerforbundet
Faglige kompetanseområder
- Vitenskaps- og kunnskapshistorie
- universitetshistorie
- polarhistorie
- kulturhistorie
- formidling gjennom drama
- historisk kunnskapssosiologi
Priser
- L. J.Battan Author's Prize (for Appropriating the Weather), American Meteorological Society (1993)
- J. Neumann Memorial Prize (for Appropriating the Weather), Royal Meteorological Society (1995)
- One of the 10 most outstanding books of the year (for The Politics of Excellence) China Reading Weekly (2005)
- Lise Meitner Prize for contributions to the advancement of physics (for The Politics of Excellence & “Remembering Miss Meitner”) Gothenburg & Chalmers Technical Universities (2006)
- Tetelman Fellow, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, for communicating insight into natural science (2009)
- Public Outreach Prize [Formidlingspris], University of Oslo (2015)
- Appropriating the Weather named one of eight classics of 20th-century European history of science by History of Science Society (2018)
Pågående og planlagte forsknings- og formidlingsprosjekter ved IAKH
- "Banned in Berlin" - a research-based theater play about politics, racism, science, and friendship in Weimar Republic through the relationship between Albert Einstein and Max Planck (workshop planned in London)
- "Recordando a Lise Meitner: Drama de un acto sobre la ciencia y la traicióna" Spanish production (CRIT Companyia de Teatre) of "Remembering Miss Meitner" part of "Proyecto Meitner" project. 2021: Theatre Rialto (Valencia), Theatre Talia (Valencia), Palacio de Festivales (Santander), & several regional theatres in Valencia. Outreach activities in connection with themes of women in science and discrimination in science. Collaboration with physicists at Instituto de Física Corpuscular with support from La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología and Institut Valencià de Cultura.
- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Immigrant, Refugee, Scientist. NFR Proforsk. Research-based dramatization. A graphic novel and book are also being planned.
- "Lise Meitner: A Moral Researcher's Struggles" Research-based screenplay for an animated film about science, gender, and values." Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
- “Splitting Atoms/Disturbing History: Science, gender, and values at the dawn of the nuclear era” Includes text of “Remembering Miss Meitner”. Book contract with Johns Hopkins University Press.
- "Chicago Whiz" A theater play with music about Laurens Hammond and his electric organ, based on original research and existing scholarship. While focusing primarily on Hammond's dramatic life, the play examines the electric organ's significance for mid-20th-century American culture and music, especially in relation to race and social class.