Catherine Lee Westfall is an American historian of science known for her work documenting the history of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories.
Westfall completed a Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1988; her doctoral dissertation was The First Truly National Laboratory: The Birth of Fermilab.
[1] As well as working within the laboratories to document their history, Westfall taught at the Lyman Briggs College of Michigan State University beginning in 2008.
[2] With Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne Kolb, Westfall is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
[3] With Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, and Roger A. Meade, she is the coauthor of Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).