Gregg Herken
Gregg Herken is an American
museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, Santa Cruz & Merced, whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War.[1]
Biography
In 1969, Herken received a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] In 1974, he received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University.[3]
Herken held teaching positions at
Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University.[2][3] During 1988–2003 he was a senior historian and curator of military space, as well as chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[2] He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95.[3]
Since 2005, Herken has been a Senior Fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.
Works
In 2003, Herken's book Brotherhood of the Bomb, for which he received a
MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.[2]
- —— (12 February 1981). The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950 (1st ed.).
- —— (12 March 1985). Counsels of War (1st ed.).
- —— (9 April 1992). Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (1st ed.). .
- —— (9 September 2002). Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (1st ed.). .
- —— (28 October 2014). The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (1st ed.).
References
- ^ "GREGG HERKEN". University of California, Merced. n.d. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries", UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
- ^ a b c James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research", UC Merced, January 22, 2004
- JSTOR 1902038.
- ^ Yardley, Jonathan (November 7, 2014). "Book Review: The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Gregg Herken". The Washington Post.
External links
- Smithsonian Air and Space Wall of Honor page
- Brotherhood of the Bomb review by Washington Post
- Brotherhood of the Bomb review by the New York Times
- Brotherhood of the Bomb review by Physics Today
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