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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.

Education and career

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

Books

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

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).

Personal life

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

References

^ Matthews, Jermey N. A. (March 2016), "Questions and answers with Adrienne Kolb", Physics Today (3), {AIP} Publishing: 9981, Bibcode:2016PhT..2016c9981M, doi:10.1063/pt.5.3034
^ Higgins, Valerie (June 23, 2015), Adrienne Kolb retires, Fermilab
"Adrienne W. Kolb (Fermilab)", Inspire, retrieved 2020-06-26
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
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, Bibcode:2016AmJPh..84..318W, 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)

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