Altadena Revealed Lecture Series - The Physics of Place: Altadena’s Scientific Legacy

Speaker: David Zierler

Friday, August 28th @ Eaton Fire Collaboratory (540 W Woodbury)
Doors open at 7:00 PM, Lecture from 7:30–8:30 PM

Science is big in Altadena, and long has been.  Richard Feynman, Caltech, JPL--to name the obvious.  But how did Altadena become such a home to physics and physicists, and what is that intellectual legacy today? Historian David Zierler will walk us through how the forces of nature have grown to comprise a critical force of Altadena's sense of place. 

David Zierler is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Director of the Caltech Heritage Project. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and foreign affairs and is the author of The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment.

Prior to his arrival at Caltech, David directed the Oral History program at the American Institute of Physics, and was previously in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State.