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34 results for "Peter L. Galison"

34 results for "Peter L. Galison"

Einstein's Clock's, Poincaré's Maps
Book
A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of...

Paul Gardner

Person

Paul Gardner is a Faculty Assistant for Professor Peter Galison. He manages Peter’s calendar, handles requests for letters of recommendation, and provides a wide variety of administrative and academic support.

Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
Book

Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together...

Scientific Visualization: From Galileo to DNA and Black Holes

Class
Visualization has been central to the development of science over the last 400 years, from Galileo through DNA to black holes. From diagrams and thought experiments through traces, photographs and film, the ability to picture, and reproduce, images of...

Screening of "Containment"

Events
" Containment" asks the big question 'How do you warn future generations to avoid repositories that will remain lethal for 10,000 years or more?’ Co-Directed by Profs. Peter Galison and Robb Moss.

Screening of "Containment"

Events
" Containment" asks the big question 'How do you warn future generations to avoid repositories that will remain lethal for 10,000 years or more?’ Co-Directed by Profs. Peter Galison and Robb Moss.

STS Program @ MIT Film Screening: Containment

Events
CONTAINMENT, a film co-directed by Peter Galison, Harvard University, and Robb Moss, Harvard University, is about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years.

"Containment" comes to the Brattle Theater

News
“Containment," the new documentary film from co-directors Robb Moss and Peter Galison, asks the big question "How do you warn future generations to avoid repositories that will remain lethal for 10,000 years or more?" The Brattle Theater screening...