OHST promotes research and intellectual exchange in the history of science and technology. In cooperation with other research units and teaching departments at Berkeley, especially the Department of History, which offers an MA/PhD in the history of science, the Office provides research facilities and administrative assistance to scholars and students, as well as organizing international exchanges, conferences, and a public colloquium series co-sponsored by the UC San Francisco graduate program in the History of Health Sciences. We publish Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences, a leading journal in the field, and other publications, including the Berkeley papers monograph series. We also welcome postdoctoral fellows and other visiting scholars from all over the world.

 

 

 

 

 

What's New?

Upcoming Events -
Open to the Public

Monday, May 5, 2008
Portraying the "Intimate Scientist" in 20th Century America: The Pushback in Popular Culture against Scientific Arrogance
Katherine Pandora
University of Oklahoma


HSPS becomes HSNS

With Volume 38 (2008), the OHST-produced journal Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (HSPS) will be re-launched as Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS). Read the UC Press Journals + Digital Publishing press release.

Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections
Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Vol. 21
   
Historical essays from Berkeley's 2004 conference mark the centenary of Oppenheimer's birth.