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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Robert H. Kargon, Ph.D.
Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History of Science

History of physics, science and social change, science in America.

Contact Information:
Telephone: 410-516-7504
E-mail: kargon@jhu.edu


Recent Publications:

"Environmental Planning for National Regeneration: Techno-Cities in New Deal
America and Nazi Germany" (with Arthur Molella) in Arthur Molella, ed., Inventing for the Environment (Cambridge MA, 2003).

"Knowledge for Use: Science, Higher Learning and America's New Industrial
Heartland,1880-1915" (with S.G.Knowles), Annals of Science 59 (2002):1-20.

"Model, Analogy and the Physical Imagination: the Case of the Vortex Atom," in Abdessalam Ben Maissa, ed., Imagination and Sciences (Rabat, Publications de la faculte de lettres, Rabat, 2000), pp. 15-35.

"The Obsolescent University? Reconfiguring Higher Education for Regional
Advantage," (with Stuart Leslie) in Karen R. Merrill (ed.) The Modern Worlds
of Business and Industry: Cultures, Technologies, Labor (Brepols Publishers,
1999).

"L'atome tourbillonaire ou la reve de Kelvin," in Les Cahiers de Science et
Vie (Aout, 1999), pp. 18-21.

"Culture, Technology and Constructed Memory in Disney's New Town:
Techno-nostalgia in Historical Perspective" (with Arthur Molella) in Miriam
Levin, ed. Cultures of Control (Amsterdam, Harwood, 2000).

"Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman's Model for Regional Advantage,"
in Business History Review, vol. 70 ( Fall, 1996): 435-472 (with Stuart Leslie )

The Rise of Robert Millikan: a Life in American Science (Ithaca, Cornell University Press,1982). Chinese translation with new introduction (Shanghai, 1998)

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