Peter Galison

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. Galison received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., in both physics and history of science, at Harvard University. His publications include *How Experiments End* (1987), *Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics* (1997), and *Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps* (2003). His most recent book, co-authored with Lorraine Daston, is titled *Objectivity* (2007). Before moving to Harvard, Galison taught for several years at Stanford University, where he was professor of history, philosophy, and physics. He is considered a member of the Stanford School of philosophy of science, a group that also includes Ian Hacking, John Dupré, and Nancy Cartwright. Galison wrote a film for the History Channel on the development of the hydrogen bomb, and has done work on the intersection of science with other disciplines, in particular art (along with Caroline A. Jones, his wife) and architecture. He is on the editorial board of *Critical Inquiry* and was a MacArthur Fellow in 1997. For his "outstanding contributions to the history of physics", Galison received the American Physical Society's Abraham Pais Prize in 2018.