Gerald Holton

358 Jefferson Physical Laboratory
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-4474; Fax: 617/495-0416; E-mail: holton@physics.harvard.edu

Essentials of Curriculum Vitae

Born 1922 in Berlin, of Austrian parents. Brought up in Vienna, to end of 1938.

Education:
School of Technology, City of Oxford (now Oxford Brookes University), Certificate of Electrical Engineering, 1940. Wesleyan University: B.A., 1941; M.A., 1942. Harvard University: M.A., 1946; Ph.D. (physics), 1948.

Positions:
Harvard University, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science. (Concurrently) Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976-1994, as founding faculty member of Program on Science, Technology and Society. Wesleyan University, Instructor, 1941-42. Brown University, Instructor, 1942-43. Harvard University: Laboratory on Electronic Acoustics, OSRD, and Staff, Officers Radar Course, 1943-45; various faculty ranks, 1947-, tenured from 1952; Chairman, Com. on the Degree in Chemistry and Physics; Member, Faculty Council, Advisory Board of Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, etc. Visiting Professor at various times at Leningrad University; University of Rome; CNRS-Paris; Imperial College London; NYU; lecturer in China for Chinese Academy of Social Science. Project Physics, Codirector, 1964-.

Professional Memberships; Elected Fellowships and other Honors:
American Physical Society. American Philosophical Society. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Editor of the Academy, 1957-63, Founding Editor of the quarterly journal, Daedalus. Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences: Vice President, 1981-88. Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. German Academy of Science and Engineering. History of Science Society, President, 1983, l984. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Board of Directors, 1970s. American Association of Physics Teachers, Distinguished Service Citation, 1962. American Institute of Physics, founding chairman of Committee for the Center for History of Physics. New York Academy of Sciences, Honorary Life Member. U. S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1975-80. U. S. National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1981-83. National Associate, The National Academies. U.S. National Committee on Science in UNESCO, 1977-80. U.S. National Commission on History and Philosophy of Science, 1982-88, Chair, 1988. National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Interdisciplinary Research, 2003. National Research Council, Committee on Conduct of Science, 1989-91; Committee on Public Understanding of Science (OPUS), 1997-2001. National Science Foundation, Advisory Committee on Ethical and Values Impact of Science and Technology (EVIST), 1973-78, Advisory Committee on Directorate for Science and Engineering Education, 1985-93, Chair, 1986-88. Massachusetts Board of Education, Advisory Committee on Science and Mathematics, 1997-2000. Member, Board of Trustees: Boston Museum of Science, 1965-67, Member of the Corporation, 1978-81. Science Service, 1972-78. Wesleyan University, 1975-89. National Humanities Center, 1989-93.Council of Scholars, Library of Congress, 1979-1995. Kuratorium of the German-American Academic Council, 1997-2000. Robert A. Millikan Medal, 1967. Herbert Spencer Lecturer, Oxford University, 1979. Oersted Medal, 1980. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980-81. Jefferson Lecturer, 1981. John P. McGovern Medal of Sigma Xi, 1985. Andrew Gemant Award, American Institute of Physics, 1989. Sarton Medal, History of Science Society, 1989. J. D. Bernal Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1989. Joseph Priestley Award, 1994. Rothschild Lecturer (Harvard University), 1997. Joseph H. Hazen Prize of the History of Science Society, 1998. Abraham Pais Prize, American Physical Society, 2008. Republic of Austria, Order of Merit (Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, I. Klasse), 2008.

Selected Book Publications:
Scientific Imagination (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein (Harvard Univ. Press, 1973; rev. ed., 1988).
Co-author, The Project Physics Course (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970-2000).
The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986; rev. ed., Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
Co-editor, Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Princeton Univ. Press, 1982; Dover, 1997).
Science and Anti-Science (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993). Einstein, History, and Other Passions (Addison-Wesley, 1996; Harvard University Press, 2000).
Physics, The Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (with S. G. Brush, Rutgers University Press, 2001).
Understanding Physics (with D. Cassidy and J. Rutherford, Springer-Verlag New York, 2002).
Victory and Vexation in Science:  Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others (Harvard Univ. Press, 2005).
Co-editor, Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art and Modern Culture (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008).

With Gerhard Sonnert:
What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society (MIT Press, 2002)
Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995)
Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995)

Selected Membership on Editorial Boards:
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Princeton University Press. American Council of Learned Societies, Committee on Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Science, Technology, & Human Values. Daedalus.The Scientist. Nuncius (Rome). Prometeo (Milan). Minerva (London).