Adrienne Kolb

American historian of science

Adrienne W. Kolb is an American historian of science who worked for many years as the archivist and historian at Fermilab.[1]

Education and career

Kolb studied history at the University of New Orleans,[2] graduating in 1972.[3] She came to Fermilab as an assistant to Lillian Hoddeson in 1983, and retired in 2015.[1][2]

Books

With Hoddeson and Catherine Westfall, Kolb is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).[4]

With Hoddeson and Michael Riordan, Kolb is the coauthor of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (University of Chicago Press, 2015).[5]

Personal life

Kolb is married to Edward ("Rocky") Kolb, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Matthews, Jermey N. A. (March 2016), "Questions and answers with Adrienne Kolb", Physics Today, {AIP} Publishing, doi:10.1063/pt.5.3034
  2. ^ a b c Higgins, Valerie (June 23, 2015), Adrienne Kolb retires, Fermilab
  3. ^ "Adrienne W. Kolb (Fermilab)", Inspire, retrieved 2020-06-26
  4. ^ Reviews of Fermilab:
    • Scholberg, Kate (January–February 2009), "Particles on the prairie", American Scientist, 97 (1): 79–81, doi:10.1511/2009.76.79, JSTOR 27859280
    • Seidel, Robert W. (March 2009), "Giant ring on the prairie", Science, 323 (5920): 1430–1431, doi:10.1126/science.1170899, S2CID 152529939
    • Domokos, Gabor (July 2009), American Journal of Physics, 77 (7): 671–672, Bibcode:2009AmJPh..77..671D, doi:10.1119/1.3098334{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Roser, Robert (August 2009), "From prairie to energy frontier", Physics World, 22 (8): 36–37, Bibcode:2009PhyW...22h..36R, doi:10.1088/2058-7058/22/08/35
    • Thorpe, Charles (November 2009), Physics Today, 62 (11): 51, doi:10.1063/1.3265237{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mody, Cyrus M. (January 2010), Technology and Culture, 51 (1): 279–280, JSTOR 40647030{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bussey, Peter J. (March 2010), Contemporary Physics, 51 (2): 190, doi:10.1080/00107510903109312, S2CID 122819708{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jones‐Imhotep, Edward (March 2010), Isis, 101 (1): 259–260, doi:10.1086/653913, JSTOR 10.1086/653913{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (Spring 2010), "Science and technology for every man, woman, and child", Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 40 (2): 259–267, doi:10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259, JSTOR 10.1525/hsns.2010.40.2.259
  5. ^ Reviews of Tunnel Visions:
    • Pisano, Raffaele (November 2015), Centaurus, 57 (4): 271–273, doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12107{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Pronskikh, Vitaly (2016), "Dreams of a super collider", Endeavour, 40 (2): 136, doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.04.001
    • Westfall, Catherine (2016), Technology and Culture, 57 (4): 1036–1037, doi:10.1353/tech.2016.0138, S2CID 114859448{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Moskowitz, Clara (February 2016), "Review", Scientific American
    • Dylla, H. Frederick (March 2016), Physics Today, 69 (3): 52, doi:10.1063/pt.3.3109{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Weart, Spencer (April 2016), American Journal of Physics, 84 (4): 318–319, doi:10.1119/1.4941930{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hallonsten, Olof (October 2016), Science and Public Policy, 44 (1): 149–150, doi:10.1093/scipol/scw041{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Benson, Keith R. (November 2016), The Journal of American History, 103 (3): 853–854, doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw487{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Fisher, Amy (March 2017), Isis, 108 (1): 234–236, doi:10.1086/690929{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Celnik, Leib (2018), Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 40 (1): 111, doi:10.7202/1048931ar{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)