Adrienne Kolb
{{short description|American historian of science}}
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Adrienne W. Kolb is an American historian of science who worked for many years as the archivist and historian at Fermilab.{{r|qa}}
Education and career
Kolb studied history at the University of New Orleans,{{r|retire}} graduating in 1972.{{r|inspire}} She came to Fermilab as an assistant to Lillian Hoddeson in 1983, and retired in 2015.{{r|qa|retire}}
Books
With Hoddeson and Catherine Westfall, Kolb is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).{{r|fermi}}
With Hoddeson and Michael Riordan, Kolb is the coauthor of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (University of Chicago Press, 2015).{{r|tunnel}}
Personal life
Kolb is married to Edward ("Rocky") Kolb, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.{{r|retire}}
References
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| last = Matthews | first = Jermey N. A.
| date = March 2016
| doi = 10.1063/pt.5.3034
| journal = Physics Today
| publisher = {AIP} Publishing
| title = Questions and answers with Adrienne Kolb| issue = 3
| page = 9981
| bibcode = 2016PhT..2016c9981M
}}
- {{citation|last=Scholberg|first=Kate|authorlink=Kate Scholberg|date=January–February 2009|issue=1|journal=American Scientist|jstor=27859280|pages=79–81|title=Particles on the prairie|volume=97|doi=10.1511/2009.76.79}}
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- {{citation|last=Roser|first=Robert|date=August 2009|doi=10.1088/2058-7058/22/08/35|issue=8|journal=Physics World|pages=36–37|title=From prairie to energy frontier|volume=22|bibcode=2009PhyW...22h..36R}}
- {{citation|last=Thorpe|first=Charles|date=November 2009|doi=10.1063/1.3265237|issue=11|journal=Physics Today|pages=51|title=none|volume=62}}
- {{citation|last=Mody|first=Cyrus M.|date=January 2010|issue=1|journal=Technology and Culture|jstor=40647030|pages=279–280|title=none|volume=51}}
- {{citation|last=Bussey|first=Peter J.|date=March 2010|doi=10.1080/00107510903109312|issue=2|journal=Contemporary Physics|pages=190|title=none|volume=51|s2cid=122819708}}
- {{citation|last=Jones-Imhotep|first=Edward|authorlink=Edward Jones-Imhotep|date=March 2010|doi=10.1086/653913|issue=1|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/653913|pages=259–260|title=none|volume=101}}
- {{citation|last=Hamblin|first=Jacob Darwin|date=Spring 2010|doi=10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259|issue=2|journal=Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences|jstor=10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259|pages=259–267|title=Science and technology for every man, woman, and child|volume=40}}
- {{citation|last=Pisano|first=Raffaele|date=November 2015|doi=10.1111/1600-0498.12107|issue=4|journal=Centaurus|pages=271–273|title=none|volume=57}}
- {{citation|last=Pronskikh|first=Vitaly|issue=2|journal=Endeavour|page=136|title=Dreams of a super collider|url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1336419|volume=40|year=2016|doi=10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.04.001}}
- {{citation|last=Westfall|first=Catherine|authorlink=Catherine Westfall|doi=10.1353/tech.2016.0138|issue=4|journal=Technology and Culture|pages=1036–1037|title=none|volume=57|year=2016|s2cid=114859448}}
- {{citation|last=Moskowitz|first=Clara|date=February 2016|journal=Scientific American|title=Review|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-tunnel-visions/}}
- {{citation|last=Dylla|first=H. Frederick|date=March 2016|doi=10.1063/pt.3.3109|issue=3|journal=Physics Today|pages=52|title=none|volume=69|doi-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Weart|first=Spencer|authorlink=Spencer R. Weart|date=April 2016|doi=10.1119/1.4941930|issue=4|journal=American Journal of Physics|pages=318–319|title=none|volume=84|bibcode=2016AmJPh..84..318W }}
- {{citation|last=Hallonsten|first=Olof|date=October 2016|doi=10.1093/scipol/scw041|issue=1|journal=Science and Public Policy|pages=149–150|title=none|volume=44}}
- {{citation|last=Benson|first=Keith R.|date=November 2016|doi=10.1093/jahist/jaw487|issue=3|journal=The Journal of American History|pages=853–854|title=none|volume=103}}
- {{citation|last=Fisher|first=Amy|date=March 2017|doi=10.1086/690929|issue=1|journal=Isis|pages=234–236|title=none|volume=108}}
- {{citation|last=Celnik|first=Leib|doi=10.7202/1048931ar|issue=1|journal=Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine|page=111|title=none|volume=40|year=2018|doi-access=free}}
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