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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
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)
Introduction to the History of Modern Science and
Technology in the West 近现代西方科技史导读（IHNS 2010）
科技革命与美国现代化 Science, Technology,
and Modernization in US History (IHNS 2011)
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
Sample Master’s 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. |
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In Sputnik’s Shadow Chinese edition: Peking
University Press, 2011. 王作跃，《在卫星的阴影下：美国总统科学顾问委员会与冷战中的美国》，北京大学出版社，2011。简介、目录、英文版书评节选 (pdf版) |
A book-in-progress
on “Chinese American Scientists: A Transnational History”
Miscellaneous Publications in English
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
Relevant
Publications and Reports by Others
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Engineering
a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in
“Mourning the Passing of
Professor Fang Lizhi” (悼念方励之老师1936-2012), April 7, 2012 (附许良英先生悼念方励之先生文 （PDF版）)
“China,
Sputnik, and American Science,” APS
[American Physical Society] News 20, no. 10 (November 2011): 4, 7. PDF version. Chinese translation: “中国、苏联卫星和美国科学—从谢家麟的经历看中美科技关系的演化”，《现代物理知识》，2012年，第24卷第一期。
“Lawrence
Badash,” Physics Today
64, no. 4 (April 2011): 70-71. Co-authored by Peter Neushul.
[“History Professor’s NSF Grant Focuses on Cold War
Scientists,” February 14, 2011, Cal Poly Pomona Polycentric.]
“‘肩住黑暗的闸门’: 我所知道的许良英老师”
(祝许良英老师九十寿辰),２０１０年８月。[“‘Taking on the
Dark Gate’: In Celebration of Professor Xu Liangying’s 90th
Birthday,” August 2010]
“Transnational Science during the Cold War: The Case of
Chinese/American Scientists.” Focus section on “New Perspectives on Science and the
Cold War.”
“悼念赵中立老师”（在赵中立先生追思会上的书面发言），载柯遵科，“桃李不言，下自成蹊：赵中立先生追思会纪录”[pdf 版]，《科学文化评论》，第７卷，２０１０年第三期。［“In Memory of
Professor Zhao Zhongli,” Science
and Culture Review 7, no. 3 (2010).］
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“美国近现代科技环境政策史研究：从总统科学顾问委员会到奥巴马”,《科学文化评论》，2010年2月，第7卷第1期, 107-114页。 [“Historical Studies
in American Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy: From the
President’s Science Advisory Committee to Obama.” Science and Culture Review 7, no. 1
(February 2010): 107-114.]
“Physics in China in the Context
of the Cold War, 1949-1976.” In Physics and
Politics, eds. Helmuth
Trischler and Mark Walker, 251-276.
“首次国际地球物理年与一个中国的原则”,《科学文化评论》，2009年12月，第6卷第6期, 69-81页。与张九辰合著。 [“The First International Geophysical Year and
the One-China Principle.” Science and
Culture Review 6, no. 6 (December 2009): 69-81. Co-authored by Jiuchen Zhang.]
“从全球变暖看美国科技环境政策”,《光明日报》，2009年7月13日11版 (《光明日报》记者张蕾访谈。pdf版). [“American Science, Technology,
and Environmental Policy: The Case of Global Warming.” An interview with Zhang Lei, Guangming Daily, July 13, 2009, p. 11.]
“‘中国现代化进程中的科学与技术’研讨会综述” ,《中国科技史杂志》30卷，第2期（2009年）：24-27。张藜合著.
[“A Report on the Conference on ‘Science and Technology in
the Making of Modern
“‘学好数理化。。。’：1978年后大陆留美科学家研究”
，载《北美华侨华人新视角--华侨华人研究上海论坛文集》，139-148页，国务院侨务办公室政研司编，北京，中国华侨出版社，2008年出版。[“‘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.]
“China Goes to the Poles: Science, Nationalism, and
Internationalism in Chinese Polar Exploration.” In Extremes: Oceanography’s
Adventures at the Poles, eds. Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski, 269-302.
“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.]
“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.” (pdf version) 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.” (draft form) 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.
"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.
Media Appearances
“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
Interviewed for David Olson,
“How Sputnik Changed the Inland Area,” The Press-Enterprise (
Featured in Dwayne Day,
“Blue Skies on the West Coast: A History of the Aerospace
Industry in Southern California,” Space Review, August 20, 2007.
Education:
PhD, in History,
MS, in History of Physics, Chinese
BS, in Physics,
Experiences:
Visiting Professor, Institute for
the History of Natural Sciences,
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
UC
Santa Barbara Special Collections/California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives,
Manuscript Processor, 1993-1998
Professional Services:
Member, Coordinating
Committee of the Forum for the History of Science in
《中国科技史杂志》编委 (Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology editorial
board member), 2005-
Historical Studies in the
Natural Sciences Associate Editor, 2007-
Member of Zhu Kezhen Award Committee, International Society
for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM), 2007
Member, Stanford Linear
中国国家自然科学基金会、中国科学院《科技政策译丛》学术指导委员会委员 (member, Academic Advisory
Committee on a Book Series of Translations in Science and Technology Policy
Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese
Academy of Sciences), 2008-
History of
Science Society Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women
in Science Prize Committee, 2008-2010 (chair for 2010).
Vice President of the
Pacific Circle, a scientific commission of the Division of the History of
Science and Technology of the International Union for the History and
Philosophy of Science, 2009-.
《自然科学史研究》编委 ([Chinese] Studies in the History of Natural Sciences
editorial board member), 2009-
《自然辩证法通讯》编委 ([Chinese] Journal of Dialectics of Nature
editorial board member), 2010-
《科学文化评论》编委 (Science and Culture Review editorial board member), 2011-
Member-elect,
History of Science Society Council, 2012-2014
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,
Member,
Faculty Learning Community on “What Is a
Member, Provost’s
Advisory Committee on the Status of Women in STEM Disciplines, 2007-2008
Member, WASC (Western
Association of Schools and Colleges) Educational Effectiveness Subcommittee,
2006-2008
President, Asian Pacific
Faculty, Staff, and Student Association (APFSSA), 2007-2008