Lawrence Badash

Badash graduated in 1956 with a B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) student. After serving three years as a naval aviator, he became a graduate in the physics department of Yale University but soon switched to the history of science. He became Derek de Solla Price's first doctoral student. Badash received his Ph.D. in 1964 and his Ph.D. thesis was eventually published in 1979 as the monograph Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decay of a Science. He was a NATO Postdoctoral Science Fellow at the University of Cambridge.{{cite news|author=Neushul, Peter|url=https://www.independent.com/2010/09/07/lawrence-badash-1934-2010/|title=Lawrence Badash: 1934-2010 |date=7 September 2010 |newspaper=The Santa Barbara Independent}} In the history department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, he taught the history of the physical sciences. He joined the department in 1966 and retired as professor emeritus in 2002.

Badash was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1984–1985.{{cite web|title=Lawrence Badash|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lawrence-badash/}} He was elected in 1984 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS){{cite web|title=Historic Fellows|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic}} and in 1987 a Fellow of the American Physical Society.{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=B}} He served as president of the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU from 1982 to 1988 and from 1996 to 1999.

His doctoral students include Jacob Darwin Hamblin.

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1119/1.1971267|title=Radioactivity before the Curies |year=1965 |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |journal=American Journal of Physics |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=128–135 |bibcode=1965AmJPh..33..128B }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1126/science.173.4000.873|title=The Importance of Being Ernest Rutherford |year=1971 |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |journal=Science |volume=173 |issue=4000 |page=873 |bibcode=1971Sci...173..873B }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/350840|title=The Completeness of Nineteenth-Century Science |year=1972 |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |journal=Isis |volume=63 |pages=48–58 |s2cid=144042306 }}
• {{cite journal|jstor=987181|title=Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939 |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |last2=Hodes |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Tiddens |first3=Adolph |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |year=1986 |volume=130 |issue=2 |pages=196–231 }}
• {{cite journal|jstor=24987366|title=The Age-of-the-Earth Debate |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |journal=Scientific American |year=1989 |volume=261 |issue=2 |pages=90–97 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0889-90 |bibcode=1989SciAm.261b..90B }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.1603078|title=Marie Curie: In the Laboratory and on the Battlefield |year=2003 |last1=Badash |first1=Lawrence |journal=Physics Today |volume=56 |issue=7 |pages=37–43 |bibcode=2003PhT....56g..37B |doi-access=free }}

• {{cite book|title=Rutherford and Boltwood: letters on radioactivity|editor=Badash, L.|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1969}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0007087400011353|title=Review of Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity edited by Lawrence Badash |year=1971 |last1=Heimann |first1=P. M. |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=301–302 |s2cid=144805841 }}
• {{cite book|title=Radioactivity in America: growth and decay of a science|author=Badash, L.|location=Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1979}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.2914164|title=Review of Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decay of Science by L. Badash |year=1980 |author=Anderson, David L. |journal=Physics Today |volume=33 |issue=7 |pages=45–46 |bibcode=1980PhT....33g..45B }}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goHPBgAAQBAJ| title=Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943–1945 | isbn=9789400990227 | editor=Badash, Lawrence | editor2=Hirschfelder, Joseph O. | editor3=Broida, Herbert P. | date=6 December 2012 | publisher=Springer }} (pbk reprint of 1980 original){{cite journal|doi=10.1086/352901|title=Review of Reminiscences of los Alamos, 1943-1945 by Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida |year=1981 |last1=Heims |first1=Stephen J. |journal=Isis |volume=72 |issue=4 |page=688 }}
• {{cite book|title=Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin|author=Badash, L.|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1985}}
• {{cite book|title=Nuclear fission: reaction to the discovery in 1939|author=Badash, L.|author2=Hodes, Elizabeth|author3=Tiddens, Adolph|location=La Jolla, California|publisher=Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego|year=1985}}
• {{cite book|title=Scientists and the development of nuclear weapons: from fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963|author=Badash, L.|location=Atlantic Highlands, N.J.|publisher=Humanities Press|year=1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4HbAAAAMAAJ| isbn=9780391038738}}
• {{cite book|author=Badash, L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8M5vx-Lrk0C| isbn=9780262257992 | title=A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s | date=10 July 2009 | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=MIT Press }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/097152311201700213|title=Book Review: A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s |year=2010 |last1=Mohan |first1=Surinder |journal=South Asian Survey |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=358–360 |s2cid=155423803 }}

• {{cite web |url=https://repository.aip.org/node/13260 |title=Portrait of Badash |website=Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics (AIP)}}
• {{cite web|author=Badash, Lawrence|title=Albert Einstein the Peacenik, a KITP public lecture co-sponsored by the Ncuelar Age Peace Foundation|date=April 27, 2005|website=ucsb.edu|url=https://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/badash/}} (audio)

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