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<div><font size="4"><b>Jessica Wang</b></font></div>
<div><i>University of British Columbia, History</i></div>
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<div><strong><font size="4">Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self in the Nuclear Age: Merle Tuve's Cold War</font></strong></div>
<div>Monday, February 27th</div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> <span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In recent years, few scholars of cold war American science have had much to say about the ideal of pure science, other than to reject the concept as a fiction that belied the material conditions of military patronage, cold war objectives, and their power to direct scientific inquiry in the post-World War II decades. A focus on political and institutional circumstances, however, misses the broader scope of mid-twentieth century science as a form of identity and an object of intense public concern. Pure science may not have reflected material realities, but it nonetheless profoundly shaped scientific personae, perceptions of selfhood, and the experiential dimensions of scientific life. This talk will examine the physicist Merle A. Tuve’s postwar career, his emotionally charged dedication to an ideal of pure science, and his fraught relations with the institutions of cold war science as a way to address larger questions about emotion, scientific selfhood, and the cultural status of science in the nuclear age.</span></div>
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<div><b>Biography</b>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;line-height:16px">Jessica Wang’s main interests lie in
U.S. political and intellectual history, political theory, the history of
science and technology, and the history of U.S. foreign relations. More
recently, she has been delving into the history of medicine and public health,
as well as social and urban history. Her book, <i>American Science in the Age
of Anxiety</i> (1999), examined the effects of cold war anti communism on
the American scientific community. Her more recent publications include
essays on science and political theory, social science and New Deal political
economy, and internationalism and U.S. foreign relations. Wang is currently pursuing
two major book-length projects. The first, tentatively titled "State of
Knowledge: Reform Social Science and New Deal Public Policy," examines the
interplay between an early twentieth century qualitative tradition in American
social science and public policy under the New Deal of the 1930s. The second
project is a social history of rabies in New York City, with the working title,
"Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies and Urban Life in New York City,
1840-2000."</span></div>
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