Peter Galison
Peter Galison | |
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Galison in 2007 | |
| Born | May 17, 1955 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and philosopher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy, history |
| Sub-discipline | History of science, philosophy of science |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Alex Wellerstein |
| Notable works | Image and Logic (1997) "Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps" (2003) |
Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955) is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University.