Prof.
Peter
Galison
(
United States
/
United States
)
Harvard University
Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, where he directs the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI). He is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in the fields of physics and history/philosophy of science. He has worked extensively on the history of science, technology, and national security, and his work has been widely recognized for its contributions to the field. He is the recipient of awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize, the Pfizer Prize and the Abraham Pais Prize. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the capture of the first image of the supermassive black hole, M87*. His books include How Experiments End; Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics; Einstein's Clocks, Poincar's Maps; and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. His latest feature film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know.