Katherine Brading
Katherine Astrid Brading is a philosopher of science and historian of science whose works have concerned theoretical physics, symmetry, and Émilie du Châtelet. Educated in England, she works in the US as a professor of philosophy at Duke University.
Education
Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992. She completed her doctorate at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 2001, with the dissertation Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem.In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University. Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.