Alex Wellerstein | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Education |
UC Berkeley (
B.A.) Harvard University ( PhD) |
Thesis | Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939-2008 (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Galison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | History of nuclear weapons |
Institutions |
Stevens Institute of Technology American Institute of Physics |
Alex Wellerstein (born 5 September 1981) is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. He is the creator of NUKEMAP. [1] [2] [3]
Wellerstein grew up in Stockton, California. He received a Bachelors of Arts in history from University of California, Berkeley in 2002, and a doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University in 2010. He was once a graduate fellow for the United States Department of Energy, a lecturer at Harvard University, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an associate historian at the American Institute of Physics. Since 2014, he has been a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. [1] [4]
In 2021, his book Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States was published by the University of Chicago Press. [5]
Alex Wellerstein | |
---|---|
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Education |
UC Berkeley (
B.A.) Harvard University ( PhD) |
Thesis | Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939-2008 (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Galison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | History of nuclear weapons |
Institutions |
Stevens Institute of Technology American Institute of Physics |
Alex Wellerstein (born 5 September 1981) is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. He is the creator of NUKEMAP. [1] [2] [3]
Wellerstein grew up in Stockton, California. He received a Bachelors of Arts in history from University of California, Berkeley in 2002, and a doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University in 2010. He was once a graduate fellow for the United States Department of Energy, a lecturer at Harvard University, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an associate historian at the American Institute of Physics. Since 2014, he has been a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. [1] [4]
In 2021, his book Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States was published by the University of Chicago Press. [5]