Lillian Hoddeson
Lillian Hartman Hoddeson 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. 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. 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. She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 2000–2001 and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
She was married to physicist Gordon Baym from 1981 to 1992.
Selected publications
- as editor with Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart, Ernest Braun: , Oxford University Press 1992
- with Michael Riordan: Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Norton 1997
- with Vicki Daitch: , National Academy of Science Press 2002
- with Adrienne Kolb, Catherine Westfall: , University of Chicago Press 2008
- as editor with Laurie Brown: , Cambridge University Press 1983
- as editor with Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Michael Riordan , Cambridge University Press 1997
- with Laurie Brown, Max Dresden: , Cambridge University Press 1989
- with Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine Westfall: , Cambridge University Press 1993
- as editor: , University of Illinois Press 2004
- with Michael Riordan, Adrienne W. Kolb: , University of Chicago Press 2015
Archival collections
Category:The Bronx High School of Science alumni
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
Category:1940 births
Category:Living people
Category:Writers from New York City
Category:American women historians
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Historians of physics
Category:Barnard College faculty
Category:Historians from New York
Category:Rutgers University faculty
Category:Scientists from New York City