Gregg Herken
Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of History at University of California, Merced, whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War.
Biography
In 1969, Herken received a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] In 1974, he received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University.[2]
Herken held teaching positions at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Oberlin College, Yale University, and California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University.[1][2] During 1988–2003 he was senior historian and curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..[1] He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95.[2]
Works
In 2003, Herken's book Brotherhood of the Bomb, for which he received a MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.[1]
- The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf, 1981)
- Counsels of War (Knopf, 1985)
- Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford, 1992)
- Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Holt, 2002)
- The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (Knopf, 2014)
References
- Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries", UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
- James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research", UC Merced, January 22, 2004