John Krige

John Krige (born September 26, 1941 ) is a South African historian of science.

Krige studied physical chemistry at the University of Pretoria (bachelor's degree in 1960, master's degree in 1962, doctorate in 1965) and philosophy and history of science at the University of Sussex with a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1979. He wrote the history of ESA as Head of a research group at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris. Since 2000 he has been "Kranzberg Professor" at the Georgia Institute of Technology .

Known as the author or co-author of the history of the European Space Agency (ESA) and CERN , he deals with the reconstruction of science and technology in Europe after World War II and the role of science and technology as instruments of US foreign policy in the cold war. Most recently, he has been working on knowledge regulation and national security in the post-war USA.

He was visiting professor at Caltech and, in 2004/05, Charles E. Lindberg Professor of Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC

In 2009 the ESA History Project , led by him and Arturo Russo , received the Koyré Medal . In 2005 he received the Henry W. Dickinson Medal from the Newcomen Society.

He was the editor of History and Technology magazine .

Fonts

• Science, Revolution and Discontinuity , Brighton, Harvester Press 1980, Reprint Aldershot 1994
• as editor: Choosing Big Technologies , Harwood 1993
• with L. Guzzetti: History of European Scientific and Technological Collaboration , EU Commission 1997
• with Armin Hermann , U. Mersits, D. Pestre: History of CERN , Volume 1,2, North Holland 1987, 1990
• The history of CERN , Volume 3, The years of consolidation 1966-1980 , North Holland 1996
• with Arturo Russo, L. Sebesta: A history of the European Space Agency , 2 volumes, Nordwijk: ESA SP1235, 2000
• with I. Löwy: Images of Disease. Science, Public Policy and Health in Postwar Europe , Brussels, EU Commission 2001
• American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe , MIT Press 2006
• Editor with Kai-Henrik Barth: Global Power: Knowledge, Science and Technology in: International Affairs , Osiris, Volume 21, University of Chicago Press, 2006
• Euratom and American Foreign Policy in the Late 1950s , in: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences , Volume 38, 2008, pp. 5-44
• Carrying American Ideas to the Unconverted: MIT's Failed Attempt to Export Operations Research to NATO , in: Grégoire Mallard, Catherine Paradeise, Ashveen Peerbaye (eds.): Global Science and National Sovereignty , New York 2008, pp. 120–142
• with Angelina Long Callahan, Ashok Maharaj: NASA in the World. Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space , Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
• Editor with Naomi Oreskes: Science and Technology in the Global Cold War , MIT Press, 2014
• Editor with Jessica Wang: Nation, Knowledge and Imagined Futures: Science, Technology and Nation-Building, Post-1945 , in: History and Technology , Volume 31, 2015, pp. 171–340
• Sharing Knowledge Shaping Europe. US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation , Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016
• as editor: How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology , University of Chicago Press 2019

Web links

• Homepage Gatech
• CV (pdf), web archive
• Old homepage at Georgia Institute of Technology , web archive