Angela N. H. Creager
Angela N. H. Creager | |
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Born | 1963 |
Alma mater | Rice University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Occupation(s) | Historian of science, Princeton University |
Angela N. H. Creager (born 1963) is a biochemist, historian of science, and the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she is also the director of the Shelby Collum Davis Center for Historical Studies.[1][2] Prior to the Siebel chair's creation in 2015, she was the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History.[3] She served as president of the History of Science Society (HSS) from 2014 to 2015.[4][5] She focuses on the history of biomedical research in the 20th century.[1] In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[6]
Early life and education
Professor Creager completed a double major in biochemistry and English at Rice University in 1985. She earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. She went on to do postdoctoral work at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she focused on the history of science.[1]
Career
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“Insights With Angela Creager”, Princeton University | |
”The Legacy of the Manhattan Project by Angela Creager and Arthur Molella”, Atomic Heritage |
Creager joined the history department at Princeton University in 1994. She served as director of graduate studies for the Program in History of Science from 2000 to 2010. She is also involved in the program for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton.[1][3]
She became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.[3][7] Creager was president of the History of Science Society (HSS) from 2014 to 2015.[4]
Works
Creager is the author of The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2002), on snuff mosaic virus[8][9][10] As the field of molecular biology developed, Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) became a paradigmatic experimental model for the study of viruses and the development of new scientific techniques. Creager's historical analysis explores TMV as a model system within the social and political cultures of mid-twentieth century biomedical research. It has been described as "a first-rate book by ... a scientist who has fluently assimilated the historian's tools".[9]
Creager has also written Atomic Life: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2013) on the use of radioisotopes in science and medicine.
Creager has edited Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2002), with Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger,[13][14] The Animal / Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives (University of Rochester Press, 2002) with William Chester Jordan,[15][16] and Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Duke University Press, 2007), with Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise.[17]
As of 2015[update] Creager is researching the development of techniques for detecting environmental
Awards
- 2009, Price/Webster prize for the article: Angela N. H. Creager & Gregory Morgan, “After the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin’s Research on Tobacco Mosaic Virus,” Isis, 2008, 99: 239–72.[18][19]
- 1998, President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Angela N. H. Creager". Princeton University. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Gift Establishes the Thomas M. Siebel History of Science Professorship". Princeton University. February 25, 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ a b c "Angela N. H. Creager Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Princeton University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Presidential Address, Angela Creager". History of Science Society. 9 Nov 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Browne, Janet. "January 2016 – From the President: Janet Browne". History of Science Society. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020".
- ^ a b Hotchkiss, Michael (February 27, 2014). "Beyond the bomb: Atomic research changed medicine, biology". News at Princeton. Princeton University.
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- ^ S2CID 143590578. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
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- ^ a b Hunt, Bruce J. (2015). "Life and Death: Angela Creager's latest book examines how the nuclear-bomb project gave new tools to scientists studying life". Distillations. 1 (1): 42–43. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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- doi:10.1017/S0007087409002477. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-02-21. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Price/Webster Prize". History of Science Society. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Morgan honored with History of Science Society prize". Eureka Alert!. January 27, 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2016.