Peter Galison Gives First Luncheon of the Year

The Berkman Center kicked off this year's Luncheon Series yesterday with a stimulating presentation from world renowned physicist and professor at Harvard's Department of the History of Science, Peter Galison.

Peter is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, as well as a MacArthur Fellow, and used this opportunity to address his work around the de-localized production of scientific knowledge - on the ways in which "trading zones" form at the boundary between different scientific languages and practices.  Peter summarized the kind of work he has done on contemporary, massive, spatially dispersed collaborations in physics experiments, and more recent work on the early telegraph networks that so shaped the early formulation of relativity theory.

If you are wondering how that connects to our work here at the Berkman Center, David Weinberger gives a great summary of the luncheon, especially the Q & A, on his blog and Ethan Zuckerman, provides a great play-by-play and bridge to Berkman work in his own blogpost.

If you missed the luncheon, or attended - at the Center or virtually - and want to see it again, the podcast will be available on MediaBerkman shortly. Stay tuned for a special One Web Day Luncheon next week!