I am the first to admit that my career has not followed a conventional path. But in talking to my colleagues, I am not sure that there is a conventional path to an academic career. This retrospective is both a look at how the profession has changed over the forty years since I began graduate school in the late 1970s, and a reflection on my own trajectory within that profession. Historiographical references reflect my own views and are not meant to be comprehensive. I first discovered the history of science as an undergraduate history major at Connecticut College in the early 1970s. The course of physics for non-majors I took with David Fenton was based on Harvard Project Physics, which had been developed in the 1960s by two professors of science education, F. James Rutherford and Fletcher G. Watson, and the historian of science Gerald Holton. We actually wrote term papers for the class; mine was on the theory that Stonehenge was an astronomical observatory.

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BJHS回顾展

我是第一个承认我的职业生涯没有走传统道路的人。但是在与我的同事交谈时，我不确定是否有通往学术生涯的传统途径。此次回顾展既是对自 1970 年代后期我开始攻读研究生以来的四十年间该行业的变化的回顾，也是对我自己在该行业中的发展轨迹的反思。历史参考资料反映了我自己的观点，并不意味着全面。1970 年代初，我在康涅狄格学院的本科历史专业中第一次发现了科学史。我和大卫芬顿一起修的非专业物理学课程基于哈佛物理项目，该项目由两位科学教育教授 F.詹姆斯卢瑟福和弗莱彻 G.沃森以及科学史学家杰拉德在 1960 年代开发霍尔顿。我们实际上为班级写了学期论文；我的理论是巨石阵是一个天文台。