Catherine Lee Westfall is an American historian of science known for her work documenting the history of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories.
Education and career
editWestfall completed a Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1988; her doctoral dissertation was The First Truly National Laboratory: The Birth of Fermilab.[1]
As well as working within the laboratories to document their history, Westfall taught at the Lyman Briggs College of Michigan State University beginning in 2008.[2]
Books
editWith Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne Kolb, Westfall is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).[3]
With Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, and Roger A. Meade, she is the coauthor of Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).[4]
Recognition
editIn 2009, Westfall was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on the History of Physics, "for her pioneering historical research on five American national laboratories, and for her organizational work in the history of physics, especially in the productive ongoing series of Laboratory History Conferences".[5]
References
edit- ^ InspireHEP record for The First Truly National Laboratory: The Birth of Fermilab, accessed 2020-06-26
- ^ Finding aid to the Catherine Westfall papers, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, retrieved 2020-06-26
- ^ Reviews of Fermilab:
- Scholberg, Kate (January–February 2009), "Particles on the prairie", American Scientist, 97 (1): 79–81, doi:10.1511/2009.76.79, JSTOR 27859280
- Seidel, Robert W. (March 2009), "Giant ring on the prairie", Science, 323 (5920): 1430–1431, doi:10.1126/science.1170899, S2CID 152529939
- Domokos, Gabor (July 2009), American Journal of Physics, 77 (7): 671–672, Bibcode:2009AmJPh..77..671D, doi:10.1119/1.3098334
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Roser, Robert (August 2009), "From prairie to energy frontier", Physics World, 22 (8): 36–37, Bibcode:2009PhyW...22h..36R, doi:10.1088/2058-7058/22/08/35
- Thorpe, Charles (November 2009), Physics Today, 62 (11): 51, doi:10.1063/1.3265237
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mody, Cyrus M. (January 2010), Technology and Culture, 51 (1): 279–280, JSTOR 40647030
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bussey, Peter J. (March 2010), Contemporary Physics, 51 (2): 190, doi:10.1080/00107510903109312, S2CID 122819708
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Jones-Imhotep, Edward (March 2010), Isis, 101 (1): 259–260, doi:10.1086/653913, JSTOR 10.1086/653913
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (Spring 2010), "Science and technology for every man, woman, and child", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 40 (2): 259–267, doi:10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259, JSTOR 10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259
- ^ Reviews of Critical Assembly:
- Peruzzi, Giulio (1994), Nuncius, 9 (2): 888–892, doi:10.1163/182539184x01332
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sutton, Christine (January 1994), Endeavour, 18 (1): 46–47, doi:10.1016/0160-9327(94)90136-8
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Peierls, Rudolf (February 1994), "Atomic science", Science, New Series, 263 (5150): 1162–1163, doi:10.1126/science.263.5150.1162, JSTOR 2883435, PMID 17831633
- Graham-Smith, F. (June 1994), The Observatory, 114 (1120): 126, Bibcode:1994Obs...114..126G
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Melzer, Richard (Fall 1994), Western Historical Quarterly, 25 (3): 411, doi:10.2307/971143, JSTOR 971143
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smith, Robert W. (1995), "Review", Canadian Review of American Studies, 25 (2): 134–135
- Hacker, Barton C. (February 1995), The American Historical Review, 100 (1): 256–257, doi:10.2307/2168161, JSTOR 2168161
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Badash, Lawrence (March 1995), The Journal of American History, 81 (4): 1813, doi:10.2307/2081828, JSTOR 2081828
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Goldberg, Stanley (September 1995), Isis, 86 (3): 520–522, doi:10.1086/357308, JSTOR 235091
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Seely, Bruce E. (October 1995), Technology and Culture, 36 (4): 1053–1055, doi:10.2307/3106943, JSTOR 3106943
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- Peruzzi, Giulio (1994), Nuncius, 9 (2): 888–892, doi:10.1163/182539184x01332
- ^ APS Fellows Nominated by FHP: 2009, APS Forum on the History of Physics, retrieved 2020-06-26