Grants per year
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Research Interests
Transnational history of science and technology in the context of social and political change. One central theme in his work is the history of measurement—both of nature and of human beings—and the many ways that quantitative values reflect social values. The other central theme in his work is the potency of material artifacts.
Education/Academic qualification
History of Science, PhD, Harvard University
… → 1991
Honors Physics, AB, Harvard University
… → 1981
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Grants
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Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Emergence and Consequences of Global Mathematics in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
9/1/18 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Technological Wonder: The Theatrical Fashioning of Scientific Knowledge, 1838-1905
7/1/13 → 3/31/15
Project: Research project
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The Forensic Self: Personal Identification from the Renaissance to the Genome
9/1/08 → 8/31/09
Project: Research project
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Science, INC: On Mediating Stephen Hawking
Alder, K. L., Jan 10 2015, In: Los Angeles Review of Books.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Review of The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector by Geoffrey C. Bunn
Alder, K. L., Mar 2013, In: Isis. 104, 1, p. 170-171 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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The history of science as oxymoron: From scientific exceptionalism to episcience
Alder, K., Mar 1 2013, In: ISIS. 104, 1, p. 88-101 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Scientific Conventions: International Assemblies and Technical Standards from the Republic of Letters to Global Science
Alder, K. L., 2012, Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present. Biagioli, M. & Riskin, J. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 19-39 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
Alder, K. L., 2010, 2 ed. Princeton: University of Chicago Press. 494 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book