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557:, Galison explored the fundamental rift rising in the physical sciences: whether singular, visual accounts of scientific phenomena would be accepted as the dominant language of proof, or whether statistically significant, frequently repeated results would dominate the field. This division, Galison claims, can be seen in the conflicts amongst high-energy physicists investigating new particles, some of whom offer up statistically significant and frequently replicated analysis of the new particle passing through electric fields, others of whom offer up a single picture of a particle behaving—in a single instance—in a way that cannot be explained by the characteristics of existing known particles. This image/logic distinction has been applied to explore the development of other disciplines, for example, archaeology. 272: 186: 66: 25: 626:, and has been shown at film festivals around the world including in Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia. This documentary investigates governments' attempts to contain a hundred million gallons of deadly radioactive sludge for 10,000 years: how can people warn future generations across this immense time span during which languages, cultures and the environment will continually transform? 94: 1350: 1300: 1290: 1355: 1345: 1295: 1145: 565: 1049: 1380: 1234: 98: 1320: 1225: 1375: 1205: 1365: 1370: 1360: 1335: 1315: 542: 458:
Galison received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., in both physics and history of science, at Harvard University. His publications include
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in 1997. For his "outstanding contributions to the history of physics", Galison received the American Physical Society's
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which is often used in scholarly literature, and he has done pioneering work on applying the anthropological notion of
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Galison has been involved in the production of several documentary films. The first,
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Einstein for the 21st century: his legacy in science, art, and modern culture
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Galison at the 2007 History of Science Society meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Before moving to Harvard, Galison taught for several years at
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The disunity of science: boundaries, contexts, and power
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The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science
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Galison appointed University Professor Harvard Gazette
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Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps: empires of time
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of philosophy of science, a group that also includes
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Schmidt, Sophie C.; Marwick, Ben (28 January 2020).
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Image and logic: a material culture of microphysics
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(1998). 588:in the United States, and premiered on the 415:"Einstein's Clocks, PoincarĂ©'s Maps" (2003) 53:Learn how and when to remove these messages 941: 270: 97:about living persons that is unsourced or 1129: 789:Galison, Peter; Daston, Lorraine (2007). 248:Learn how and when to remove this message 230:Learn how and when to remove this message 168:Learn how and when to remove this message 1381:Fellows of the American Physical Society 701:Galison, Peter; Stump, David J. (1996). 1261:2015 Video Interview with Peter Galison 1072: 898:American Academy of Arts & Sciences 846:The Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma 765: 723: 654: 582:The Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma 1278: 1171:"Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know" 1198:Galison's history of science homepage 1015: 874:Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know 678:Galison, Peter; Hevly, Bruce (1992). 548: 967:Services, University of Chicago IT. 966: 631:Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know 624:Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 575: 179: 59: 18: 1321:American philosophers of technology 774:. New York, New York: W.W. Norton. 13: 1376:20th-century American male writers 531:. He is on the editorial board of 14: 1392: 1366:American male non-fiction writers 1191: 751:. 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