{{short description|American historian}} thumb|upright|Carson in 2018 '''Cathryn Leigh Carson''' is an American historian of science, known for her biography of Werner Heisenberg. She holds the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
==Education and career== Carson earned a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy of science in 1990 from the University of Chicago. She moved to Harvard University for graduate study, and completed her doctorate there in 1995.{{r|profile}} Her dissertation was ''Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany''.{{r|diss}}
She joined the Berkeley history department in 1996.{{r|cv}} Carson was editor-in-chief of the journal ''Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences'' from 2008 to 2013.{{r|cv}}
==Book== Carson is the author of a biography of Werner Heisenberg, ''Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010).{{r|haa}}
==Recognition== In 2014, Carson was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{r|aaas}} She was given the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science in 2016.{{r|cv}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=aaas>{{citation|url=https://www.dailycal.org/2014/11/30/4-campus-faculty-elected-american-association-advancement-science-fellowship/|newspaper=The Daily Californian|title=4 campus faculty members elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows|date=November 30, 2014|first=Isaac|last=Smith}}</ref>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/general/carson_cv.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|publisher=University of California, Berkeley Department of History|accessdate=2019-05-06}}</ref>
<ref name=diss>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50256113 WorldCat catalog entry] for ''Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany'', retrieved 2019-05-06.</ref>
<ref name=haa>Reviews of ''Heisenberg in the Atomic Age'': *{{citation | last = Gordin | first = Michael D. | date = September–October 2010 | issue = 5 | journal = American Scientist | jstor = 27859572 | pages = 426–428 | title = The Sorrows of Old Werner | volume = 98}} *{{citation | last = Eisfeld | first = Rainer | date = October 2010 | language = German | publisher = H-Soz-Kult | title = Rezension | isbn = 9780521821704 | url = https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-14769 }} *{{citation | last = Hentschel | first = Klaus | date = December 2010 | doi = 10.1086/657517 | issue = 4 | journal = Isis | pages = 843–845 | title = Heisenberg Contextualized | volume = 101| s2cid = 146938061 }} *{{citation | last = Deltete | first = Robert J. | date = January 2011 | doi = 10.1080/00033790.2010.518770 | issue = 3 | journal = Annals of Science | pages = 419–422 | title = none | volume = 70| s2cid = 145352016 }} *{{citation | last = Seth | first = Suman | date = February 2011 | issue = 6020 | journal = Science | jstor = 41075739 | page = 1012 | series = New Series | title = Heisenberg in the "Public Sphere" | volume = 331| doi = 10.1126/science.1201550 | bibcode = 2011Sci...331.1012S | s2cid = 144790924 }} *{{citation | last = Schirrmacher | first = Arne | date = May 2011 | department = Rezensionen/Reviews | doi = 10.1007/s00048-011-0050-9 | pmid = 21544561 | issue = 2 | journal = NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin | pages = 211–212 | title = none | volume = 19| doi-access = free }} *{{citation | last = Thorpe | first = Charles | date = October 2011 | issue = 4 | journal = The American Historical Review | jstor = 23308039 | pages = 1217–1218 | title = none | volume = 116| doi = 10.1086/ahr.116.4.1217a }} *{{citation | last = Stanley | first = Matthew | date = June 2011 | issue = 2 | journal = The British Journal for the History of Science | jstor = 41241675 | pages = 308–309 | title = none | volume = 44| doi = 10.1017/S0007087411000525 }} *{{citation | last = Harrison | first = Aaron | date = November 9, 2012 | journal = Berkeley Science Review | title = Review | url = https://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/heisenberg-in-the-atomic-age-science-and-the-public-sphere/ | access-date = May 7, 2019 | archive-date = January 26, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210126213443/https://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/heisenberg-in-the-atomic-age-science-and-the-public-sphere/ | url-status = dead }} *{{citation | last = Beyerchen | first = Alan | date = December 2014 | issue = 4 | journal = Central European History | jstor = 43965104 | pages = 882–884 | title = none | volume = 47| doi = 10.1017/S0008938914002118 | s2cid = 146827944 }} *{{citation | last = Lalli | first = Roberto | date = November 2015 | doi = 10.1111/1600-0498.12101 | issue = 4 | journal = Centaurus | pages = 260–261 | title = none | volume = 57}}</ref>
<ref name=profile>{{citation|url=https://history.berkeley.edu/cathryn-carson|title=Cathryn Carson|work=Current Faculty|publisher=University of California, Berkeley Department of History|accessdate=2019-05-06}}</ref>
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