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Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
Assistant Professor
16 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-5354
jhambli@clemson.edu
http://people.clemson.edu/~jhambli/

Professor Hamblin specializes in the history of science, technology, and environment. He is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris, and he taught at California State University, Long Beach, for four years before coming to Clemson in 2006. His books and articles
have centered on the international dimensions of science and technology during the Cold War. He is the author of Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science (2005) and Poison in the Well: Radioactive
Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (2008), as well as a reference encyclopedia entitled Science in the Early Twentieth Century (2005).  He currently is writing a book on postwar science and the rise of environmental warfare


Selected Publications

 

Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science (2005)

Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia (2005)

“Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace,” Technology and Culture 47 (2006), 734–756.

“‘A Dispassionate and Objective Effort:’ Negotiating the First Study on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation,” Journal of the History of Biology 40 (2007), 147-177.

“Hallowed Lords of the Sea: Scientific Authority and Radioactive Waste in the United States , Britain , and France,” in John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth, eds., Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs, Osiris 21 (2006), 209–228.

“The Navy’s ‘Sophisticated’ Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945–1956,” Isis 93:1 (2002), 1–27.

“Visions of International Scientific Cooperation: the Case of Oceanic Science, 1920–1955,” Minerva 38:4 (2000), 393–423.

“Science in Isolation: American Marine Geophysics Research, 1950–1968,” Physics in Perspective 2:3 (2000), 293–312.

 



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