John Krige () is a historian of science and technology and the Kranzberg Professor at the School of History, Technology and Society,
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Atlanta.
Biography
Krige is originally a
physical chemist by training, earning a PhD from the
University of Pretoria in the subject. After earning a PhD in
philosophy
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at the
University of Sussex, in the
United Kingdom in 1979, Krige's intellectual career has been in the history of science and technology, including notable efforts within the project to write the history of
CERN
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and the
European Space Agency
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in the 1980s and 1990s. His main focus is on the place of science and technology in the foreign policies of governments both intra-European and between the U.S. and Western Europe in the cold war.
In 2000, Krige became a professor at
Georgia Institute of Technology
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's School of History and Sociology.
As a Francis Bacon Award recipient, Krige became a visiting professor at Caltech's Division of Humanities and Social Science.
Bibliography
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Awards
* 2020 Francis Bacon Award.
References
External links
Georgia Institute of Technology websiteJohn Krige - Curriculum VitaeJohn Krige - Bibliography
Georgia Tech faculty
American historians of science
Historians of technology
Living people
Physical chemists
University of Pretoria alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Sussex
People associated with CERN
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