Lawrence Badash

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

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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