Peter Galison PETER GALISON is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and the author of How Experiments End; Image and Logic; and the newly published Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. Two collections of interpretive essays have been published about Image and Logic, which also won the Pfizer Prize for Best Book in the History of Science. For his work on these books he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997, and a Max Planck Prize by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung in 1999.
LINKS: "EINSTEIN AND POINCARÉ: A Talk with Peter Galison" Beyond Edge: Peter Galison"s Home Page
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