Jimena Canales

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Jimena Canales
BornJimena Canales
(1973-10-20) 20 October 1973 (age 50)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationWriter
Notable worksA Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time
Website
www.jimenacanales.org

Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American historian of science and author with a background in physics and engineering.

Career

Jimena Canales is the author of Simply Einstein (2021),[1] Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (2020),[2] The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time (2015)[3] and A Tenth of a Second: A History (2009)[4] as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker,[5] The Atlantic,[6] NPR,[7] among others). Canales obtained a B.S. in engineering physics at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science, which she held until 2017.[10]

Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.[11]

Her presentations on art and science has been featured at the

Centre Georges Pompidou,[12] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[13] the 11th Shanghai Biennale[14] and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA).[15]

Awards and reviews

Source:[16][17]

  • Premio Cosmos, per la divulgazione scientifica for L'Ombra del diavolo[18]
  • The New Yorker reviews[19]
  • The Washington Post reviews[20]
  • The Guardian's Top 10 Books About Time[21]
  • Books of the Year 2016[22]
  • 25 Top Ibero-american Intellectuals[23]
  • Best Science Books for 2015[24]
  • Independent's Top Reads of 2015[25]
  • Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2015[26]
  • Charles A. Ryskamp Award from the American Council of Learned Societies[27]
  • University of Chicago Press Bevington Prize (2008)[28]
  • Prize for Young Scholars (2005), awarded by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science[29]

Books and selected articles

books

  • (2009) A Tenth of a Second: A History, University of Chicago Press,
    ISBN 9780226093185
  • (2016) The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time, Princeton University Press
    ISBN 9780691173177
  • (2020) Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, Princeton University Press,
    ISBN 978-0691175324
  • (2021) Simply Einstein, Simply Charly publ.
    ISBN 9781943657452

articles

References

  1. ISBN 978-1943657452
    .
  2. ISBN 9780691175324
    .
  3. ISBN 9780691173177
    .
  4. ^ A Tenth of a Second. University of Chicago Press – via press.uchicago.edu.
  5. ^ Canales, Jimena. "Albert Einstein's Sci-Fi Stories". The New Yorker.
  6. ^ Canales, Jimena (April 18, 2017). "The Secret PR Push That Shaped the Atomic Bomb's Origin Story". The Atlantic.
  7. ^ NPR 2018/01/09, 2018/01/15, 2018/03/13
  8. ^ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/5/12/history-of-science-reinvents-tutorials-the/. http://www.thecrimson.com/column/bargain-hunting-fall-2010/article/2010/9/5/class-science-title-professors/. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/11/2/music-sound-timbre-sheldon/
  9. ^ http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/en/fellows/former-fellows/jimena-canales/ Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. http://german.princeton.edu/ssms/academic-staff-2/academic-staff-2012/jimena-canales/ Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Siebel Chair in the History of Science at Illinois Named - Yahoo Finance". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2017-01-15.. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141030006706/en/Siebel-Chair-History-Science-Illinois-Named#.VQ4gSMaRk7A. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). http://www.trustees.uillinois.edu/trustees/agenda/November-14-2013/003-nov-Appointments.pdf
  11. ^ http://www.e-flux.com/journal/some-experiments-in-art-and-politics/. "Festival of Future Nows | Institut für Raumexperimente". Archived from the original on 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  12. ^ "Some Experiments in Art and Politics - Journal #23 March 2011 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  13. ^ "The Photographic Event · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org.
  14. ^ "Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  15. ^ "The Artist's Voice: Trevor Paglen and Jimena Canales | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org.
  16. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. ^ "Lectures and Awards". jimenacanales.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  18. ^ "Cosmos 2022, gran finale al Teatro Cilea. La giuria incorona Jimena Canales e il Maestro Nicola Piovani incanta il pubblico". 2 October 2022.
  19. ^ Cep, Casey (January 8, 2021). "Science's Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  20. ^ Keiser, Jess (December 24, 2020). "The shadowy spirits that helped advance science". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  21. ^ Burdick, Alan (January 10, 2018). "Top 10 books about time". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  22. ^ "Books of the year". The Tablet.
  23. ^ "25 intelectuales que redefinen el pensamiento iberoamericano - Esglobal - Política, economía e ideas sobre el mundo en español". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  24. ^ Popova, Maria (December 9, 2015). "The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time".
  25. ^ "Irish writers pick their top reads of 2015". independent. 27 December 2015.
  26. ^ "The Best Science Books of 2015".
  27. ^ "ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - Results". www.acls.org. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  28. ^ "Books Supported by the Bevington Fund". uchicago.edu. 5 May 2015. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  29. ^ "Newsletter" (PDF). www.icohtec.org. 2012. Retrieved 2020-04-28.

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