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History of Science
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: HSSB 3254 Hours:
Phone: (805) 893-7896 Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: badash@history.ucsb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests- History of Science
- History of radioactivity and nuclear physics
- Scientists and nuclear weapons
- Science and society
- Science in America
Current Projects- Science in the Haunted Fifties
The Effect of McCarthyism on Science
Selected Publications- (ed.), Rutherford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity (Yale University Press, 1969)
- (ed.), Rutherford Correspondence Catalog (American Institute of Physics, 1974)
- Radioactivity in America: Growth and Decay of a Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
- (ed.), Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 (Reidel, 1980)
- Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin (Yale University Press, 1985)
- Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (Humanities Press, 1994)
- The age-of-the-earth debate, Scientific American, 261 (Aug. 1989), 90-96
- A story too good to kill: The “nuclear” explosion in San Francisco Bay, Knowledge (now called Science Communication), 14 (June 1993), 356-71
- The discovery of radioactivity, Physics Today, 49 (Feb. 1996), 21-26
- Science and McCarthyism, Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning, and Policy, 38 (2000), 53-80
- Nuclear winter: Scientists in the political arena, Physics in Perspective, 3 (2001), 76-105
- Marie Curie: In the laboratory and on the battlefield, Physics Today, 56 (July 2003), 37-43
- From security blanket to security risk: Scientists in the decade after Hiroshima, History and Technology, 19 (2003), 241-56
- Becquerel’s blunder, Social Research, 72 (Spring 2005), 31-62
- A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s (MIT Press, 2009)
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 105: The Atomic Age
- History 105P: Proseminar in Atomic Age Problems
- History 106A: The Origins of Western Science, Antiquity to 1500
- History 106B: The Scientific Revolution, 1500 to 1800
- History 106C: History of Modern Science
- History 106D: U.S. Science Policy
- History 277AB: Topics in the History of Science
- History 278AB: Research Seminar on Topics in the History of Science
Honors and Professional Activities- Council member, History of Science Society (1975-1978)
- Director, Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1983 and 1986)
- Chair, Division of History of Physics, American Physical Society (1988-1989)
- Member-at-Large, Section L, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1988-1992)
- Executive Committee, Forum on Physics and Society, American Physical Society (1991-1993)
- Centennial Speaker, American Physical Society (1999)
- Advisory Editor, Isis, journal of the History of Science Society (2003-2005)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization Postdoctoral Science Fellowship, at Cambridge University (1965-1966)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow (1984)
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1984-1985)
- American Physical Society, Elected Fellow (1987)
- Who's Who in America
Career- Yale University
Department of History of Science and Medicine, Instructor (1964-1965), Research Associate (1965-1966)
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of History, Assistant Professor to Professor of History of Science (1966-2002)
- Cambridge University
Visiting Scholar (1965-1966 and 1969-1970)
- InterUniversity Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Instructor (1986, 1987, and 1996)
- University of Sussex, United Kingdom
US/European Summer School on Global Security and Arms Control, Fellow (1987)
- State Institute of International Affairs, Moscow, USSR
Summer Seminar on East-West Security Problems, Fellow (1989)
- Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan
Visiting Professor of International Studies and UC Education Abroad Director (1993)
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