Lillian Hoddeson
{{short description|American university teacher}}
Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City)birth data from the biographical entry in the book by Hoddeson et al. The Rise of the Standard Model; other biographical data from Hoddeson et al. Out of the Crystal Maze is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Education and career
Hoddeson received in 1957 a high school diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, in 1961 a bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College, and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University with a dissertation on solid-state physics. She was an assistant professor of physics from 1967 to 1970 at Barnard College and from 1971 to 1976 at Rutgers University. In 1974–1975 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and took Thomas Kuhn's "History of Quantum Mechanics" graduate course.[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2011/today11-10-24_Lillian%20HoddesonReadMore.html Fermilab Historian Lillian Hoddeson wins APS prize, 24 October 2011, Fermilab Today] From 1977 to 1992 she held various academic positions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, before becoming there an associate professor from 1993 to 2000 and a full professor from 2000 until her retirement. Since 1978 she has held the position of Fermilab's historian.
Hoddeson is the co-author or editor of several books and has published more than 50 articles in referred journals.[http://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/206585 Lillian Hoddeson named to History of Science Chair at Illinois, 6 August 2007, U. of Illinois News Bureau] Her publications include a biography of John Bardeen, history of the development of the transistor, history of Fermilab, technical history of the beginning of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and history of the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project. She co-authored three important books on the history of particle physics and a 2015 book on the Superconducting Super Collider.
In 2012 she received the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics from the American Physical Society.[http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Hoddeson&first_nm=Lillian&year=2012 2012 Abraham Pais Prize in History Recipient, American Physical Society website] She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 2000–2001[https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/208460 History professor wins Guggenheim Fellowship for work on UI physicist, 13 April 2000, U. of Illinois News Bureau] and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[http://cqd.eecs.northwestern.edu/people/awards/APS_Women_Fellows.pdf Women Fellows, APS Physics]
She was married to physicist Gordon Baym from 1981 to 1992.
Selected publications
- as editor with Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart, Ernest Braun: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Out_of_the_Crystal_Maze.html?id=WCpPPHhMdRcC Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the history of solid-state physics], Oxford University Press 1992{{cite journal|author=Wang, Zuoyue|title=Review of Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid-State Physics|journal=Am. J. Phys.|volume=61|issue=8|date=August 1993|page=766|url=http://www.cpp.edu/~zywang/bookreviews/hoddeson.pdf|doi=10.1119/1.17165}} (contribution by Hoddeson, Michael Eckert, Gordon Baym The development of quantum mechanical electron theory of metals 1926–1933 and contribution from Hoddeson, Helmut Schubert, Steve J. Heims, Baym Collective Phenomena)
- with Michael Riordan: Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Norton 1997 (history of the transistor and integrated circuit, and biographical information on many of those involved)
- with Vicki Daitch: [https://books.google.com/books/about/True_Genius.html?id=2QSfAwAAQBAJ True Genius: The life and science of John Bardeen], National Academy of Science Press 2002{{cite journal|author=Ambegaokar, Vinay|title=Review of True genius: the life and science of John Bardeen by L. Hoddeson and V. Daitch|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|volume=35|year=2004|pages=134–138|url=http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/Vinay/ambegaokar_review1.pdf|doi=10.1016/j.shpsb.2003.10.001}}
- with Adrienne Kolb, Catherine Westfall: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Fermilab.html?id=UXUbesKLjBoC Fermilab: physics, the frontier and the rise of megascience], University of Chicago Press 2008{{cite journal|author=Mody, Cyrus C. M.|title=Review of Fermilab by L. Hoddeson, A. W. Kolb, & C. Westfall|journal=Technology and Culture|date=January 2010|volume=51|issue=1|pages=279–280|doi=10.1353/tech.0.0390|s2cid=109856523|url=https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/cbeb0dba-c559-4aaf-a1e2-0285a2d54ec3 }}
- as editor with Laurie Brown: [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Birth_of_Particle_Physics.html?id=-8w8AAAAIAAJ The birth of particle physics], Cambridge University Press 1983{{cite journal|last1=Pickering|first1=A.|authorlink=Andrew Pickering|title=Review of Particle Physics in Its Early Decades: The Birth of Particle Physics|journal=Science|volume=226|issue=4670|year=1984|pages=38–39|issn=0036-8075|doi=10.1126/science.226.4670.38|pmid=17815412}}
- as editor with Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Michael Riordan [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Rise_of_the_Standard_Model.html?id=klLUs2XUmOkC The rise of the Standard Model: Particle physics in the 1960s and 1970s], Cambridge University Press 1997 (with an introduction by Brown, Riordan and Hoddeson on The rise of the standard model 1964–1979, pp. 3–35)
- with Laurie Brown, Max Dresden: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Pions_to_Quarks.html?id=EX2sgFJhFyQC Pions to quarks: Particle physics in the 1950s], Cambridge University Press 1989{{cite journal|author=Dilworth, C.|title=Review of Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s edited by L. M. Brown, M. Dresden & L. Hoddeson|journal=Science|date=27 July 1990|volume=249|issue=4967|pages=426–427|doi=10.1126/science.249.4967.426|pmid=17755946|bibcode=1990Sci...249..426B}}
- with Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine Westfall: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Assembly.html?id=KoTve97yYB8C Critical Assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years 1943–1945], Cambridge University Press 1993{{cite journal|author=Walker, Mark|title=Critical assembly: How (but not why) we got the bomb|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|date=April 1995|volume=26|issue=1|pages=117–120|doi=10.1016/1355-2198(95)00004-D|bibcode=1995SHPMP..26..117W}} (with contributions by Gordon Baym and others)
- as editor: [https://books.google.com/books?id=02eFrTPIo4gC No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes], University of Illinois Press 2004 (with a preface by Richard Herman)
- with Michael Riordan, Adrienne W. Kolb: [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLzCCgAAQBAJ Tunnel visions: the rise and fall of the superconducting super collider], University of Chicago Press 2015{{cite journal|author=Westfall, Catherine|title=Review of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider|journal=Technology and Culture|volume=57|issue=4|pages=1036–1037|doi=10.1353/tech.2016.0138|year=2016|s2cid=114859448}}
References
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfR2UQTnGtU Stanford Ovshinsky's Life Discussed by Lillian Hoddeson, 20 May 2015, YouTube]
= Archival collections =
- [https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1680D73IU0570.32021&limitbox_1=LO01+%3D+icos&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=rev-icos&ri=97&source=~%21horizon&index=.GW&term=LILLIAN+HODDESON+PAPERS%2C+1904-2001&x=9&y=13&aspect=power Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
- [https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1680D73IU0570.32021&limitbox_1=LO01+%3D+icos&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=rev-icos&ri=145&source=%7E%21horizon&index=.GW&term=LILLIAN+HODDESON+ADDITION+TO+PAPERS%2C+1913-2006&x=12&y=8&aspect=power Lillian Hoddeson addition to papers, 1913-2006, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
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