Cathryn Carson

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.

Carson earned a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy of science in 1990 from the University of Chicago.

[1] Her dissertation was Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germany.

[3] Carson was editor-in-chief of the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences from 2008 to 2013.