Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Roger Hahn
Professor, Department of History
University of California, Berkeley


Email: rhahn@berkeley.edu

Roger Hahn is engaged in making a critical edition of Laplace's unpublished manuscripts dealing with his criticism of established religion (Christianity) given the contradictory information contained in the New Testament regarding miracles. The problem his rejection of revealed religion poses for him is by what mechanism the mind acts on the body, more generally how the spiritual and material realms are connected. A second research interest is the development of mathematical theories of elasticity and plasticity in the 19th century. Professor Hahn has a third concern with the attempts of secular rational thinkers like Henri La Fontaine and George Sarton to link science with pacifism, particularly at the time of World War I.

During the Summer of 2000, Professor Hahn organized a week-long International Summer School for History of Science on the Berkeley campus on the subject of "Science and High Technology in the 20th century." Over 50 individuals, mostly advanced graduate students from Europe and North America, attended and heard lectures from a panel of experts and visited sights in Silicon Valley and the biotech industry. The School is part of an on-going series of summer programs organized by the Office for History of Science and Technology in Berkeley, and the Universities of Bologna, Paris, and Uppsala.

Website: http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Hahn

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