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“Beams and Emanations:
Radioisotopes in Atomic Age Medicine”
Angela N. H. Creager, Ph.D.,
Princeton University
Friday, March 15, 2013
Public lecture: 12:15pm
Refreshments served at noon
Location: Old Library Auditorium
Angela N. H. Creager is the
Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. Her
research focuses on the history of 20th-century biomedical science.
Professor Creager’s first book, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as
an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (2002), shows how a virus that attacks
tobacco plants came to play a central role in the development of virology and
molecular biology. Her second book, Life Atomic: A History
of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine, will be published by
University of Chicago Press in 2013. She is also the coeditor of three volumes,
most recently Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary
Narratives (2007). Professor Creager graduated from Rice University with a
double major in biochemistry and English (1985) and completed a Ph.D. in
biochemistry (1991) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she
developed an interest in the history of biology. Supported by postdoctoral
awards, she retrained as a historian of science at Harvard University and MIT,
and joined the Princeton History Department in 1994. She served as Director of
Graduate Studies for the Program in History of Science and is affiliated with
Princeton’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is currently serving
as Vice-President of the History of Science Society.
The lecture is free and open to
the public. If you have a disability and need an accommodation to attend or
participate in this event please contact Maija Anderson (503-418-2287) at least
five business days prior to the event.
