Contributors

Barton J. Bernstein is Professor of American History at Stanford University. He teaches and researches on American political and diplomatic history since 1939, with a special interest in the history of the nuclear age and the figure of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Kai Bird is the author of The chairman: John J. McCloy and the making of the American establishment (1992) and The color of truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, brothers in arms (1998). He is also co-editor with Lawrence Lifschultz of Hiroshima's shadow: Writings on the denial of history and the Smithsonian controversy (1998). A Contributing Editor of The nation, he is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Cathryn Carson is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked on the history of quantum field theory and on the public role of the scientist after the Second World War, focusing on Werner Heisenberg. Her current project is a history of the science behind nuclear waste management, while her teaching centers on the history of physics, science in Germany and the United States, and nuclear history.

David C. Cassidy is Professor of Natural Science at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. A former associate editor of the Albert Einstein Papers Project, he is the author of Uncertainty: The life and science of Werner Heisenberg and Einstein and our world. His biographical study J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century was published in 2005.

Robert P. Crease is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and author of a monthly column entitled "Critical Point" on the social dimensions of science for the magazine Physics world. He assisted in publication of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A life, by Abraham Pais with supplemental material by Robert P. Crease. His other books include The prism and the pendulum: The ten most beautiful experiments in science (1993); Making physics: A biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory (1999); Peace and war: Reminiscences of a life on the frontiers of science (1998, with Robert Serber); The play of nature: Experimentation as performance (1993); and The second creation: Makers of the revolution in twentieth century physics (1986, with Charles C. Mann).

Jon Else is a documentary filmmaker and Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his The day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb (1980), Cadillac desert: Water and the transformation of nature (1997), and Sing faster: The stagehands' Ring Cycle (2000). He was series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the prize: America's civil rights years (1987). He has served as cinematographer on hundreds of documentaries for PBS, The BBC, ABC, MTV and HBO, including the BBC/PBS History of rock and roll (1993), Who are the DeBolts (Academy Award 1976), the Paramount/MTV feature documentary Tupac: Resurrection (Sundance 2003), Alice Waters for American masters, and several independent feature films, as well as numerous commercials and music videos. He is currently directing Wonders are many: The making of Doctor Atomic, a documentary about the creation of John Adams and Peter Sellars's opera about Oppenheimer.

Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was the recipient of the Max Planck Research Award. His books include How experiments end (1987); Image and logic: A material culture of microphysics (1997), which won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society; and Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps (2003). With Pamela Hogan he co-produced the film Ultimate weapon: The H-bomb debate and is now, with Rob Moss, making a film, about science, security, and secrecy.

J.L. Heilbron is Professor of History and The Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Geometry civilized: History, culture, and technique (1998); The sun in the church: Cathedrals as solar observatories (1999); Rutherford and the explosion of atoms (2003); and, as editor in chief, The Oxford companion to the history of modern science (2003). His current research interests include relations between science and religion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, physics and its institutions in the twentieth century, and the use of history of science in the teaching of science.

Gregg Herken is Professor of History and a founding faculty member of the University of California, Merced. Between 1988 and 2003 he was a senior Historian and Curator of Military Space at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the author of four books: The winning weapon: The atomic bomb in the Cold War (1981), Counsels of war (1985), Cardinal choices: Presidential science advising from the atomic bomb to SDI (1992), and Brotherhood of the bomb: The tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (2002), which was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

James G. Hershberg is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He authored James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age, published in 1993, and numerous articles on cold war and nuclear history. He directed the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project and currently edits the CWIHP Book Series, co-published by the Stanford University and Wilson Center Presses.

David A. Hollinger is Department Chair and Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Cosmopolitanism and solidarity: Studies in group affiliation in the United States (Wisconsin, 2006) and Science, Jews, and secular culture (Princeton, 1996). He is also the editor of The humanities and dynamics of inclusion after World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2006). His recent articles have appeared in Church history, Harper's, Modern intellectual history, and The Cambridge history of science.

David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor in International History, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Since coming to Stanford in 1986, he has served as Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Arms Control (1991-97), as Associate Dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-98), and as Director of the Stanford Institute for International Studies (1998-2003). His research has focused on the impact of nuclear weapons on international relations, the history of the Cold War, and science and technology in the Soviet Union. His book Stalin and the bomb: The Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956 was published by Yale University Press in 1994 and has appeared in several languages, including Russian. His current research focuses on the history of nuclear weapons.

Karl Hufbauer, who retired from UC Irvine in 1999, has written on the formation of the German chemical community in the eighteenth century, the development of solar science since Galileo, and the emergence of what has come to be called nuclear astrophysics. He hopes to write a book about research on the stellar-energy problem during the first half of the twentieth century. He now resides in Seattle, where he is affiliated with the University of Washington's Department of History and is active as a stone sculptor.

David Kaiser is Associate Professor of the History of Science in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. His historical research focuses on changes in American physics during and after World War II, looking in particular at how the postwar generation of graduate students was trained. His book Drawing theories apart: The dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics was published in 2005 by the University of Chicago Press. He has also recently edited a book, Pedagogy and the practice of science: Historical and contemporary perspectives, which appeared in 2005 from MIT Press.

Daniel J. Kevles is the author most recently of The Baltimore case: A trial of politics, science, and character and a coauthor of Inventing America: A history of the United States (2nd edition forthcoming, 2006). His previous books include In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity and The physicists: The history of a scientific community in modern America. From 1964 to 2001, he taught at the California Institute of Technology, and since 2001 he has been the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where he chairs the program in History of Science and Medicine. In 2001 he received the History of Science Society's George Sarton Medal for career achievement.

Alexei Kojevnikov is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia, Athens. He has worked on the history of quantum physics, the relationship between science and ideology, and the history of Soviet science. He is the author of the book Stalin's great science: The times and adventures of Soviet physicists, published in 2004 by Imperial College Press in London.

W. Patrick McCray is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He researches and teaches the history of science and technology in the twentieth century and is, most recently, the author of Giant telescopes: Astronomical ambition and the promise of technology (Harvard University Press, 2004).

Richard Polenberg has taught at Cornell University since 1966 and is now Goldwin Smith Professor of American History and Stephen H. Weiss Preidential Fellow. He is the author of Fighting faiths: The Abrams case, the Supreme Court, and free speech (1987), which received the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and The world of Benjamin Cardozo (1997). He has recently published an edited version of the 1954 AEC hearing, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2002).

S.S. Schweber is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Dibner Institute. His publications include QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (1994) and In the shadow of the bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the moral responsibility of the scientist (2000). He is at work on a biography of Hans Bethe.

Martin J. Sherwin is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University, where he founded the university's Nuclear Age History and Humanity Center. The author of A world destroyed: Hiroshima and its legacies (1975, 1987, 2003), he is the recipient of the Bernath Prize, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as the American History Book Prize awarded by the National Historical Society. He has served as a historical advisor for several documentary films and is co-executive producer of a documentary on the life of Igor Kurchatev. He has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Charles Thorpe is Lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He was trained in sociology and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. His sociological biography Oppenheimer: The tragic intellect will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.

Stephanie Young is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests focus on federal science policy in the United States after the Second World War. She is particularly interested in scientists and the development of military strategy in the early Cold War.