{"625483":{"#nid":"625483","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Krige Offered Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/krige\u0022\u003EJohn Krige\u003C\/a\u003E, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HSOC), was recently awarded California Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s (Caltech) prestigious Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOffered biennially in the amount of $20,000, the Francis Bacon Award is bestowed on an outstanding scholar whose work continues to have a substantial impact in the history of science, the history of technology, or historically-engaged philosophy of science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winner of the Bacon Award is invited to spend one term (10 weeks) as a visiting professor at Caltech to teach and lead a biennial conference that brings together the best younger and established scholars in the area of the Bacon Visiting Professor\u0026rsquo;s specific interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrige joins a prominent list of previous awardees, such as\u0026nbsp;J\u0026uuml;rgen Renn, director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Georgia Tech as a Kranzberg professor in 2000, Krige\u0026nbsp;directed a research group in the history of science and technology at the Cit\u0026eacute; des sceinces et de l\u0026rsquo;industrie in Paris, and was the project leader of a team that wrote the history of the European Space Agency. Krige\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on the intersection between\u0026nbsp;science, technology and foreign policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince being at Georgia Tech he has expanded his interest beyond the study of intergovernmental organizations in Western Europe to include an analysis of U.S. - European relations during the Cold War.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrige has written numerous books and monographs over his career, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAmerican Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe:\u0026nbsp;US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(Cambridge: MIT Press, July 2016). NASA invited him to write its history on the occasion of its 50th anniversary resulting in the book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENASA in the World. Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)\u003Cem\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eco-authored with two of his graduate students, Angelina Long Callahan and Ashok Maharaj.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrige also served a two-year term as president of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the largest organization for this field in the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHSOC\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/krige\u0022\u003EJohn Krige\u003C\/a\u003E, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HSOC), was recently awarded Caltech\u0026#39;s prestigious Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The prestigious award, offered by Caltech, is awarded biennially in the amount of $20,000 to an outstanding scholar whose work continues to have a substantial impact in the history of science and the history of technology."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2019-09-03 15:36:15","changed_gmt":"2019-09-03 16:30:11","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405791":{"id":"405791","type":"image","title":"Gerhard John Krige","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Gerhard John Krige","file":{"fid":"76105","name":"johnkrigeweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnkrigeweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnkrigeweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":72974,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/johnkrigeweb.jpg?itok=9LVfalrP"}}},"media_ids":["405791"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"587","name":"John Krige"},{"id":"147521","name":"HSOC"},{"id":"182087","name":"Francis Bacon Award"},{"id":"172801","name":"HSOC news"},{"id":"166851","name":"HSOC research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}