2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Friday, 3 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Friday, 3 November
The Values of Interdisciplinarity
(Oxford Room)
Jeremiah␣ L. James, Harvard University, Disparate Bonds: Ends and Means
in Early Quantum Chemistry
Silvan␣ S. Schweber, Brandeis University, Interdisciplinarity, Theory, the
Computer and the Physical Sciences
*Jamie␣ N. Cohen-Cole, Princeton University, The Cognitive Revolution and
the Culture of Interdisciplinarity
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University, Accelerating Discovery: Bioinformatics
and Interdisciplinarity
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Cathryn␣ L. Carson, University of California,
Berkeley
Cultures of 20th-Century Astronomy
(Prince of Wales)
Matthew Stanley, Harvard University, Science and the Spiritual Quest:
Religion, Epistemology, and Eddington’s Stellar Models
Keith␣ R. Lafortune, University of Notre Dame, Pickering’s Harem and the
New Sociology of Astronomy, 1877-1919
Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Identity and Ideology in
Meghnad Saha’s Physics
David␣ P.␣ D. Munns, Johns Hopkins University, Becoming Astronomy: Why
Cosmic Noise became Radio Astronomy
JoAnn Palmeri, Independent Scholar, Sagan and Shapley: The Astronomer
as Prophet of Science in the Twentieth Century
CHAIR: Pamela␣ E. Mack, Clemson University
Friday 3 November
12:30 p.m.—1:30 p.m.
Regency Centre
Forum for the History of Science in America
Distinguished Lecture
Estella Leopold, University of Washington
“Ecologists and the Land Ethic”
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