PHYSICISTS IN THE POSTWAR POLITICAL ARENA:
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
A Conference at the University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, 22 January, through Saturday, 24 January, 1998
The Lipman Room, 8 th Floor, Barrows Hall
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY
Informal Reception, 3:00 p.m.
Welcome, 3:30 p.m.
PANEL 1: Science as a Model for Politics, 3:45 - 6:15 p.m.
Finn Aaserud (Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen): "The Scientist and the Statesmen: Niels Bohr's Crusade for an 'Open World'"
Richard Beyler (Portland State): "Physics and 'De-Ideologization' in Post-1945 West Germany"
David Holloway (Stanford): "Physics and Civil Society in the Soviet Union and China"
Xu Liangying (Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Chinese Physicsts' Sense of Social Responsibility" (paper delivered in absentia by Zuoyue Wang)
David Hollinger (UC Berkeley): commentator
Dinner, 7:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY
Coffee, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
PANEL 2: Insiders and Outsiders, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Gennady Gorelik (Boston University): "Andrei Sakharov: From Russian Theoretical Physics to International Practical Humanics"
Lyman Miller (Johns Hopkins): "Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu: Divergent Responses to Physics and Politics in the Post-Mao Period"
Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State): "A Physicist in the Corridors of Power: P.M.S. Blackett's Opposition to British Nuclear Strategy following the War"
Sam Schweber (Brandeis): "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist: Bethe and Oppenheimer"
Martin Sherwin (Tufts): commentator
Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
PANEL 3: Making Institutions, 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Barton Bernstein (Stanford): "Lawrence, Teller, and the Quest for the Second Lab"
Igor Drovenikov (Russian Acacemy of Sciences): "Flerov's Choice"
Dominique Pestre (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales): "From Colonial to Cold War Politics and Science: A History of Military / Scientist Relations in France, 1938-1962"
J.M. Sanchez-Ron (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): "Spanish Physicists in Post-WWII Public Life: Physics at the National Institute for Aeronautical Technology
James Bartholomew (Ohio State): commentator
Break, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
PANEL 4: Actors and Strategies, 3:30-6:00 p.m.
Cathryn Carson (UC Berkeley): "Trying on Roles: Heisenberg in West Germany"
Fan Dainian (Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Nuclear Physicist Wang Kan-chang in the People's Republic of China"
Alexei Kojevnikov (American Institute of Physics): "Soviet Scientists and Politicians: Dialogues about Power in Authoritarian Political Culture"
Gregg Zachary (Wall Street Journal): title TBA [Vannevar Bush]
Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics): commentator
Dinner, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in the Lipman Room)
Informal Session: Film and History, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY
Coffee 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
PANEL 5: Closing Down and Opening Up, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Lawrence Badash (UC Santa Barbara): "Science in the McCarthy Period"
Dieter Hoffmann (MPI f¸r Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin): "The Divided Anniversary: The 1958 Max Planck Centennial in Berlin and the Cold War in Science"
Ethan Pollock (UC Berkeley): "The Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and Soviet Physics"
Jim Williams (UC Berkeley): title TBA (China)
Jessica Wang (UCLA): commentator
LUNCH 11:30-12:30 p.m.
PANEL 6: National and International Networks, 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Morris Low (Australian National University): "Japanese Physicists and the Reorganization of Science in Postwar Japan: The Physicist as Public Man and Policy-maker"
Paul Josephson (University of New Hampshire): "An End to Scientific Autarky: Khrushchev, Soviety Physicists, Geneva, and Beyond"
Zuoyue Wang (UC Santa Barbara): "US-China Scientific Exchange, 1971-1989"
Peter Westwick (UC Berkeley): "National Labs and National Goals"
Gene Rochlin (UC Berkeley): commentator
Break, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
FINAL ROUNDTABLE AND DISCUSSION 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Paul Forman (Smithsonian Institution)
Lyman Miller (Johns Hopkins)
Wolfgang Panofsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Ethan Pollock (UC Berkeley)
Etel Solingen (UC Irvine)
Dinner, 7:00 p.m.
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
A Conference at the University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, 22 January, through Saturday, 24 January, 1998
The Lipman Room, 8 th Floor, Barrows Hall
THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY
Informal Reception, 3:00 p.m.
Welcome, 3:30 p.m.
PANEL 1: Science as a Model for Politics, 3:45 - 6:15 p.m.
Finn Aaserud (Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen): "The Scientist and the Statesmen: Niels Bohr's Crusade for an 'Open World'"
Richard Beyler (Portland State): "Physics and 'De-Ideologization' in Post-1945 West Germany"
David Holloway (Stanford): "Physics and Civil Society in the Soviet Union and China"
Xu Liangying (Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Chinese Physicsts' Sense of Social Responsibility" (paper delivered in absentia by Zuoyue Wang)
David Hollinger (UC Berkeley): commentator
Dinner, 7:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY
Coffee, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
PANEL 2: Insiders and Outsiders, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Gennady Gorelik (Boston University): "Andrei Sakharov: From Russian Theoretical Physics to International Practical Humanics"
Lyman Miller (Johns Hopkins): "Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu: Divergent Responses to Physics and Politics in the Post-Mao Period"
Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State): "A Physicist in the Corridors of Power: P.M.S. Blackett's Opposition to British Nuclear Strategy following the War"
Sam Schweber (Brandeis): "The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist: Bethe and Oppenheimer"
Martin Sherwin (Tufts): commentator
Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
PANEL 3: Making Institutions, 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Barton Bernstein (Stanford): "Lawrence, Teller, and the Quest for the Second Lab"
Igor Drovenikov (Russian Acacemy of Sciences): "Flerov's Choice"
Dominique Pestre (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales): "From Colonial to Cold War Politics and Science: A History of Military / Scientist Relations in France, 1938-1962"
J.M. Sanchez-Ron (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): "Spanish Physicists in Post-WWII Public Life: Physics at the National Institute for Aeronautical Technology
James Bartholomew (Ohio State): commentator
Break, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
PANEL 4: Actors and Strategies, 3:30-6:00 p.m.
Cathryn Carson (UC Berkeley): "Trying on Roles: Heisenberg in West Germany"
Fan Dainian (Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Nuclear Physicist Wang Kan-chang in the People's Republic of China"
Alexei Kojevnikov (American Institute of Physics): "Soviet Scientists and Politicians: Dialogues about Power in Authoritarian Political Culture"
Gregg Zachary (Wall Street Journal): title TBA [Vannevar Bush]
Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics): commentator
Dinner, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in the Lipman Room)
Informal Session: Film and History, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY
Coffee 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
PANEL 5: Closing Down and Opening Up, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Lawrence Badash (UC Santa Barbara): "Science in the McCarthy Period"
Dieter Hoffmann (MPI f¸r Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin): "The Divided Anniversary: The 1958 Max Planck Centennial in Berlin and the Cold War in Science"
Ethan Pollock (UC Berkeley): "The Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and Soviet Physics"
Jim Williams (UC Berkeley): title TBA (China)
Jessica Wang (UCLA): commentator
LUNCH 11:30-12:30 p.m.
PANEL 6: National and International Networks, 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Morris Low (Australian National University): "Japanese Physicists and the Reorganization of Science in Postwar Japan: The Physicist as Public Man and Policy-maker"
Paul Josephson (University of New Hampshire): "An End to Scientific Autarky: Khrushchev, Soviety Physicists, Geneva, and Beyond"
Zuoyue Wang (UC Santa Barbara): "US-China Scientific Exchange, 1971-1989"
Peter Westwick (UC Berkeley): "National Labs and National Goals"
Gene Rochlin (UC Berkeley): commentator
Break, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
FINAL ROUNDTABLE AND DISCUSSION 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Paul Forman (Smithsonian Institution)
Lyman Miller (Johns Hopkins)
Wolfgang Panofsky (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Ethan Pollock (UC Berkeley)
Etel Solingen (UC Irvine)
Dinner, 7:00 p.m.
