Catherine Westfall
Biographic Data
| ID | 367272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Westfall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Westfall |
| SIGNATURE | WESTFALL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3893-2936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
First archaeometric distinction between turquoise sources in pre-hispanic contexts of the South-Central Andes: Mina Las Turquesas (Chile) and Cueva Inca Viejo (Argentina)
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb
Reviewed by: Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb Catherine Westfall (bio) Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider. By Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, and Adrienne W. Kolb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 480. $40. In early 1994 I asked an up-and-coming young physicist about her plans. The previous fall Cong…
Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science (review)
Reviewed by: Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science Catherine Westfall (bio) Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science. By Park Doing. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. viii+152. $28. In the last twenty years, the U.S. Department of Energy, which funds most accelerator-based science, has spent about $2 billion annually to operate and construct facilities, mostly accel…
Pipas prehistóricas de Chile. Discusión en torno a su distribución y contexto
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (review)
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974. By Peter J. Westwick. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x+403. $49.95
Trampas Y Amarras: Posible Hacer Arqueología en El Sistema De Evaluación De Impacto Ambiental
Se presenta una reflexión acerca de la participación de los arqueólogos en el Sistema de Evaluación de ImpactoAmbiental (SEIA), a partir de la promulgación de la Ley 19.300 sobre Bases Generales del Medio Ambiente. Se discuten las dificultades y potencialidades de este tipo de trabajos como una nueva estrategia de investigación en arqueología
Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960 (review)
For several decades scholars have examined the alliances that bind leading scientists with other American leaders. This book reveals the evolving sophistication of this line of inquiry
Rethinking Big Science: Modest, Mezzo, Grand Science and the Development of the Bevalac, 1971-1993
Historians of science have tended to focus exclusively on scale in investigations of largescale research, perhaps because it has been easy to assume that comprehending a phenomenon dubbed "Big Science" hinges on an understanding of bigness. A close look at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Bevalac, a medium-scale "mezzo science" project formed by uniting two preexisting machines--the modest SuperHILAC and the grand Bevatron--shows what can be gained…
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (review)
Lise Meitner was an amazing woman. Despite the dual disadvantages of being female and Jewish, the Austrian-born physicist established a first-class career starting in the 1910s and 1920s in Berlin, where such luminaries as Max Planck and Albert Einstein were developing a new quantum-based physics. Working both independently and with chemist Otto Hahn, through the 1930s Meitner was part of the worldwide effort to investigate radioactive substances…
Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (review)
Brookhaven National Laboratory was established by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947 as one of its first three national laboratories. In contrast to its sister laboratories at Oak Ridge and Argonne, Brookhaven's mission was to pursue basic rather than applied research. Indeed, during the next few decades this multipurpose laboratory developed research expertise in a wide range of fields, including chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and m…
Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96 . Jack M. Holl , Richard G. Hewlett , Ruth R. Harris
MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Technology in the National Interest . Eva C. Freeman
Thinking Small in Big Science: The Founding of Fermilab, 1960-1972
A travers l'histoire d'un laboratoire national americain de physique des particules, l'A. montre que le developpement des equipes de recherches, des appareillages et des instruments, de plus en plus imposants et perfectionnes, ont modifie de nombreuses pratiques scientifiques
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
Journal Article Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1943. By Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine Westfall, Gordon Baym, Richard Hewlett, Alison Kerr, Robert Penneman, Leslie Redman, and Robert Seidel. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvi, 509 pp. $39.95.) Get access Lawrence Badash Lawrence Badash University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search f…
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research ed. by Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly
966 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE book would be even more effective if it were to serve as a springboard for research on scientific practices that integrates benchwork with higher levels of organization, linking the cognitive and political realms of knowledge production. Lily E. Kay Dr. Kay is an associate professor of history of science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her boo…
Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research
History of Cern. Volume 2: Building and Running the Laboratory, 1954-1965 . Armin Hermann , John Krige , Ulrike Mersits , Dominique Pestre , Laura Weiss
Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade by Necah S. Furman
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 639 are introduced in chapter 5 and rarely mentioned again. Some of his generalizations could also be questioned. He concludes that the program’s political problems “underscored how marginal it was to the interests of some congressmen” (p. 141), but a more interesting puzzle is why it was more than marginal for more than a few members. There also is a debatable claim that, because of the lack of technical and s…
Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade
The Privilege of Being a Physicist . Victor F. Weisskopf
Rethinking Big Science: Modest, Mezzo, Grand Science and the Development of the Bevalac, 1971-1993
Historians of science have tended to focus exclusively on scale in investigations of largescale research, perhaps because it has been easy to assume that comprehending a phenomenon dubbed "Big Science" hinges on an understanding of bigness. A close look at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Bevalac, a medium-scale "mezzo science" project formed by uniting two preexisting machines--the modest SuperHILAC and the grand Bevatron--shows what can be gained…
First archaeometric distinction between turquoise sources in pre-hispanic contexts of the South-Central Andes: Mina Las Turquesas (Chile) and Cueva Inca Viejo (Argentina)
Thinking Small in Big Science: The Founding of Fermilab, 1960-1972
A travers l'histoire d'un laboratoire national americain de physique des particules, l'A. montre que le developpement des equipes de recherches, des appareillages et des instruments, de plus en plus imposants et perfectionnes, ont modifie de nombreuses pratiques scientifiques
History of Cern. Volume 2: Building and Running the Laboratory, 1954-1965 . Armin Hermann , John Krige , Ulrike Mersits , Dominique Pestre , Laura Weiss
The Privilege of Being a Physicist . Victor F. Weisskopf
Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade by Necah S. Furman
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 639 are introduced in chapter 5 and rarely mentioned again. Some of his generalizations could also be questioned. He concludes that the program’s political problems “underscored how marginal it was to the interests of some congressmen” (p. 141), but a more interesting puzzle is why it was more than marginal for more than a few members. There also is a debatable claim that, because of the lack of technical and s…
Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade
History of Cern. Volume 2: Building and Running the Laboratory, 1954-1965 . Armin Hermann , John Krige , Ulrike Mersits , Dominique Pestre , Laura Weiss
Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research ed. by Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly
966 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE book would be even more effective if it were to serve as a springboard for research on scientific practices that integrates benchwork with higher levels of organization, linking the cognitive and political realms of knowledge production. Lily E. Kay Dr. Kay is an associate professor of history of science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her boo…
Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
Journal Article Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1943. By Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine Westfall, Gordon Baym, Richard Hewlett, Alison Kerr, Robert Penneman, Leslie Redman, and Robert Seidel. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvi, 509 pp. $39.95.) Get access Lawrence Badash Lawrence Badash University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search f…
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
Thinking Small in Big Science: The Founding of Fermilab, 1960-1972
A travers l'histoire d'un laboratoire national americain de physique des particules, l'A. montre que le developpement des equipes de recherches, des appareillages et des instruments, de plus en plus imposants et perfectionnes, ont modifie de nombreuses pratiques scientifiques
MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Technology in the National Interest . Eva C. Freeman
Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96 . Jack M. Holl , Richard G. Hewlett , Ruth R. Harris
Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (review)
Brookhaven National Laboratory was established by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947 as one of its first three national laboratories. In contrast to its sister laboratories at Oak Ridge and Argonne, Brookhaven's mission was to pursue basic rather than applied research. Indeed, during the next few decades this multipurpose laboratory developed research expertise in a wide range of fields, including chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and m…
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (review)
Lise Meitner was an amazing woman. Despite the dual disadvantages of being female and Jewish, the Austrian-born physicist established a first-class career starting in the 1910s and 1920s in Berlin, where such luminaries as Max Planck and Albert Einstein were developing a new quantum-based physics. Working both independently and with chemist Otto Hahn, through the 1930s Meitner was part of the worldwide effort to investigate radioactive substances…
Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960 (review)
For several decades scholars have examined the alliances that bind leading scientists with other American leaders. This book reveals the evolving sophistication of this line of inquiry
Rethinking Big Science: Modest, Mezzo, Grand Science and the Development of the Bevalac, 1971-1993
Historians of science have tended to focus exclusively on scale in investigations of largescale research, perhaps because it has been easy to assume that comprehending a phenomenon dubbed "Big Science" hinges on an understanding of bigness. A close look at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Bevalac, a medium-scale "mezzo science" project formed by uniting two preexisting machines--the modest SuperHILAC and the grand Bevatron--shows what can be gained…
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (review)
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974. By Peter J. Westwick. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x+403. $49.95
Trampas Y Amarras: Posible Hacer Arqueología en El Sistema De Evaluación De Impacto Ambiental
Se presenta una reflexión acerca de la participación de los arqueólogos en el Sistema de Evaluación de ImpactoAmbiental (SEIA), a partir de la promulgación de la Ley 19.300 sobre Bases Generales del Medio Ambiente. Se discuten las dificultades y potencialidades de este tipo de trabajos como una nueva estrategia de investigación en arqueología
Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science (review)
Reviewed by: Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science Catherine Westfall (bio) Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science. By Park Doing. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. viii+152. $28. In the last twenty years, the U.S. Department of Energy, which funds most accelerator-based science, has spent about $2 billion annually to operate and construct facilities, mostly accel…
Pipas prehistóricas de Chile. Discusión en torno a su distribución y contexto
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb
Reviewed by: Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb Catherine Westfall (bio) Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider. By Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, and Adrienne W. Kolb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 480. $40. In early 1994 I asked an up-and-coming young physicist about her plans. The previous fall Cong…
First archaeometric distinction between turquoise sources in pre-hispanic contexts of the South-Central Andes: Mina Las Turquesas (Chile) and Cueva Inca Viejo (Argentina)
Computer Science (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Library science (9 works) · Research, Science, and Academia (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Physics (7 works) · Engineering physics (6 works) · History (6 works)