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Welcome To the Homepage of Zuoyue Wang (王作跃) |
Professor,
Department of History, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona,
Specialties:
History
of science and technology, modern science in the
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Course Links:
HST 202 US
History since 1865; (Reviews #1, 2, 3, 4)
HST 300 History Methods
HST 347 US History since
1945
HST 408 History of
American Science and Technology
HST 423 Modern Science
in World History (Sample Term Papers 1 and 2)
HST 461 and 462 Senior
Thesis (Portal on Senior Thesis)
HST 499 Weapons of
Mass Destruction
HST 501 Advanced History
Methods
HST 561 Readings in
Modern U.S. History
BUS/CLS 362, 452,
482 Cal Poly Pomona China Summer 2005
STS 179 US Science Policy
(HMC Fall 2008)
STS 179 Science and
Society in Modern China (HMC Spring 2009)
History of Modern American Science and Technology (GUCAS 2009)
Resources:
Citation Style and Tips on
Writing; Tips on Writing Essay Exams;
University Calendar
Links on Primary
Sources in US
History and History of Science and Technology
Sample Topics and Resources for HST 408, 423,
and 461
Sample Senior Theses
Grade Appeals Policy and
Procedures
Links to Other Useful Papers and Sites
Books:
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In
Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and
Cold War America. |
A book-in-progress on “Chinese American Scientists: A
Transnational History”
Articles
and Book Chapters:
"China and the
International Geophysical Year." In Globalizing
Polar Science: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the
International Polar and Geophysical Years, eds. Roger D. Launius, James R. Fleming, and David H. Devorkins.
“Physics in China in the Context of the Cold War, 1949-1976.” In a forthcoming collection of essays edited by Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker
on physics, funding, and institutions in the twentieth century.
“从全球变暖看美国科技环境政策”(American science, technology, and environmental
policy: the case of global warming)，《光明日报》，2009年7月13日11版。《光明日报》记者张蕾访谈。pdf
“‘中国现代化进程中的科学与技术’研讨会综述” (report on conference “Science and
Technology in the Making of Modern China”)《中国科技史杂志》30卷，第2期（2009年）：24-27。Co-authored by Zhang Li (张藜).
Copyright／版权《中国科技史杂志》
“‘学好数理化。。。’：1978年后大陆留美科学家研究”
(‘If You Learn Your Math, Physics, and Chemistry…’:
A Historical Study of Chinese Scientists in the
“What Can We Expect from the New [Obama]
Administration?”
“History of Science and American Science
Policy.”
Isis 99, no. 2 (June 2008):
365-373. Co-authored
by Naomi Oreskes. Copyright History of Science Society and the
Entries in Noretta Koertge (chief. ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (
“Chien
Shiung Wu” (Chinese American woman nuclear
physicist)
“Zhu Kezhen”
(Chinese meteorologist and science administrator)
“Zhao Zhongyao”
(Chinese nuclear physicist)
“Living in the
Shadow of Sputnik,” San Gabriel Valley Tribune (also printed
in Pasadena Star-News and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin), online
version on October 3 and print version on October 4, 2007.
Television interview on
Sputnik, broadcast on Time Warner Cable-CNN Headline News Local
Edition in
“Science and the State in Modern China.” Isis 98,
no. 3 (September 2007): 558-570. Copyright History of Science Society and the
“当代美国科教政策的变迁:
从卫星危机到9.11
,” 《科学时报》2007年9月4日, B4. [“Recent Evolution of American Science and
Education Policy: From the Sputnik Crisis to 9/11,” Science Times,
September 4, 2007, B4.] Copyright/版权《科学时报》
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“Restructuring.” In
Storia della Scienza (history
of science), v. 8, ed. Sandro
Petruccioli (gen. ed.), 553-560.
“学习科学史的心路历程,”《中国科技史杂志》, 2005年第26卷第2期176-179。[“Becoming a Historian of Science,” The
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 26, no. 2 (June
2005): 176-179.] Copyright/版权《中国科技史杂志》
“为什么美国没有设立科技部?”《科学文化评论》2005年 第2卷第5期, 36-49页。 [“Why Has the
"Saving
China through Science: The Science Society of China, Scientific Nationalism,
and Civil Society in Republican China."
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the
History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 17 (2002): 291-322. (A thematic issue on Science and
Civil Society edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas Broman). Copyright History of Science Society and
“Science,
Technology, and Foreign Policy.” In Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies
of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Eds. Alexander DeConde, et al., v. 3, 443-459.
“Chinese
American Scientists and U.S.-China Scientific Relations: From Richard Nixon to Wen Ho Lee.”** In The Expanding Roles of Chinese
Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific
Interactions, eds. Peter
H. Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin,
207-334.
"'Ideologically Correct'
Science: French Revolution, Soviet Union, National Socialism, WWII Japan, McCarthyism,
and People’s Republic of China."** In Science and Ideology: A
Comparative History, ed. Mark Walker, 35-65.
Entries for "Scientific
advice to the president" (pp.
451-453), "United States House
of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology" (132-133),
"United States
Office of Naval Research" (411-412), in Marc Rothenberg (ed.), The
History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland
Publishing, 2001). Copyright Garland Publishing.
"Between the Devil and
the Deep Sea: C. K. Tseng, Mariculture, and the
Politics of Science in Modern China."
"US-China Scientific
Exchange: A Case Study of State-Sponsored Scientific Internationalism during
the Cold War and beyond."
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30, pt. 1 (1999): 249-277.
Entries on three physicists in American
National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): "James Brown Fisk,"
v. 8, 769-770; "William
Houston," v. 11, 283-284; "Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer," v. 14, 769-770.
"Responding
to Silent Spring: Scientists, Popular Science Communication, and
Environmental Policy in the Kennedy Years." Science Communication: An
Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal 19, no. 4 (December 1997):
141-163. (2.5 mg pdf file.) Copyright Sage Publications.
"The Politics of Big
Science in the Cold War: PSAC [President's Science Advisory Committee] and the
Funding of SLAC [Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological
Sciences 25, pt. 2 (1995): 329-356.
"The First World
War, Academic Science, and the 'Two Cultures': Educational Reforms at the
University of Cambridge."
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning, and Policy 33, no. 2 (Summer
1995): 107-127. Copyright
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
“量子力学的两个研究纲领,”《自然辩证法通讯》1991年第13卷第4期 [“The Two Research Programs of Quantum
Mechanics,” Journal of Dialectics of Nature 13, no. 4 (1991):
41-49]. On the conflict between Albert
Einstein-Erwin Schrödinger's approach and that of Niels
Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Copyright版权中国科学院自然辩证法通讯杂志社．
"James Chadwick"
(20th century British nuclear physicist), in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Great Lives from History: British and
Commonwealth Series (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987), 560-564. Co-authored by L. Badash. Copyright Salem Press.
Chinese Publications (中文文章和报道)
Conference
Presentations and Invited Talks
Activities Related to 50th
Anniversary of Sputnik (1957-2007)
Education:
PhD,
in History,
MS, in History of Physics,
Chinese
BS,
in Physics,
Experiences:
Visiting Professor,
Cal Poly Pomona History Department, Assistant
Professor, 1999-2004; Associate Professor, 2004-2008; Professor, 2008-
UC Berkeley History
Department, Visiting Lecturer, 1999
UC Santa Barbara History Department,
Visiting Lecturer, 1994-98
Professional
Services:
Chinese Journal for the History of
Science and Technology Editorial Board Member, 2005-
Historical
Studies in the Natural Sciences Associate Editor, 2007-
History
of Science Society Margaret W. Rossiter History of
Women in Science Prize Committee, 2008-2010.
Professional
Honors:
2003
Price/Webster Prize, History of Science Society. Co-recipient with Peter Neushul.
Visiting
Fellow, Institute for the History of Natural Science,
Hixon-Riggs Visiting
Professor in Science, Technology, and Society, Harvey Mudd
College, 2008-2009
Adjunct
Professorship,
Cal
Poly
Member,
Faculty Learning Community on “What Is a
Member,
Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women in STEM Disciplines,
2007-
Member,
WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) Educational Effectiveness
Subcommittee, 2006-2008
President,
Asian Pacific Faculty, Staff, and Student Association (APFSSA), 2007-2008