Peter Galison

Peter Galison

Nacimiento : 1955-05-17, New York, USA

Historia

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Peter Louis Galison (born 1955) is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997) and Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time. His most recent book (2007), co-authored with Lorraine Daston, is titled Objectivity. In Image and Logic, Galison explored the fundamental rift rising in the physical sciences: whether singular, visual accounts of scientific phenomenon would be accepted as the dominant language of proof, or whether statistically significant, frequently repeated results would dominate the field. This division, Galison claims, can be seen in the conflicts amongst high-energy physicists investigating new particles, some of whom offer up statistically significant and frequently replicated analysis of the new particle passing through electric fields, others of whom offer up a single picture of a particle behaving—in a single instance—in a way that cannot be explained by the characteristics of existing known particles. His work with Lorraine Daston developed the concept of "mechanical objectivity" which is often used in scholarly literature, and he has done pioneering work on applying the anthropological notion of "trading zones" to scientific practice. He has developed a film for the History Channel on the development of the hydrogen bomb, and has done work on the intersection of science with other disciplines, in particular art (along with his wife, Caroline A. Jones) and architecture. He is on the editorial board of Critical Inquiry and was a MacArthur Fellow in 1996. Galison has been involved in the production of two documentary films. The first, The Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma, was about the political and scientific decisions behind the creation of the first hydrogen bomb in the United States, and premiered on the History Channel in 2000. The second, and most recent, Secrecy, Galison directed with Harvard filmmaker Robb Moss, is about the costs and benefits of government secrecy, and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Before moving to Harvard, Galison taught for several years at Stanford University where he was professor of History, Philosophy, and Physics. He is considered part of the "Stanford School" of philosophy of science along with Ian Hacking, John Dupré, and Nancy Cartwright (philosopher). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Galison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Peter Galison

Películas

Agujeros negros al límite del Conocimiento
Producer
Los agujeros negros están en el límite de lo que podemos saber. Para explorar esa ventaja de conocimiento, el Event Horizon Telescope vincula observatorios de todo el mundo para simular un instrumento del tamaño de la Tierra. Con esta herramienta, el equipo persigue la primera imagen de un agujero negro, lo que resulta en una imagen vista por miles de millones de personas en abril de 2019.Mientras tanto, Hawking y su equipo atacan la paradoja de los agujeros negros en el corazón de la física teórica: ¿siguen funcionando las leyes predictivas, incluso en estas distorsiones masivas del espacio y el tiempo? Tejerlos juntos es una tercera línea, filosófica y exploratoria utilizando la animación expresiva. "Edge" trata sobre la práctica de la ciencia al más alto nivel, una película donde la observación, la teoría y la filosofía se combinan para captar estos objetos más misteriosos. Peter Galison
Agujeros negros al límite del Conocimiento
Director
Los agujeros negros están en el límite de lo que podemos saber. Para explorar esa ventaja de conocimiento, el Event Horizon Telescope vincula observatorios de todo el mundo para simular un instrumento del tamaño de la Tierra. Con esta herramienta, el equipo persigue la primera imagen de un agujero negro, lo que resulta en una imagen vista por miles de millones de personas en abril de 2019.Mientras tanto, Hawking y su equipo atacan la paradoja de los agujeros negros en el corazón de la física teórica: ¿siguen funcionando las leyes predictivas, incluso en estas distorsiones masivas del espacio y el tiempo? Tejerlos juntos es una tercera línea, filosófica y exploratoria utilizando la animación expresiva. "Edge" trata sobre la práctica de la ciencia al más alto nivel, una película donde la observación, la teoría y la filosofía se combinan para captar estos objetos más misteriosos. Peter Galison
Black Hole Apocalypse
Himself
Astrophysicists show how black holes might hold answers to how the universe evolved, leading to life on Earth and, ultimately, the human race.
Containment
Director
Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
Containment
Producer
Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
Secrecy
Director
Esta película trata sobre el vasto e invisible mundo del secreto gubernamental. Al centrarse en los secretos clasificados, la capacidad del gobierno para poner información fuera de la vista si dañaría la seguridad nacional, Secrecy explora las tensiones entre nuestra seguridad como nación y nuestra capacidad de funcionar como democracia.
Shattering Stars
Director
A little-told chapter in the story of black holes begins in 1930 Madras, India with19-year-old Indian physics prodigy Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Chandra).