Kathryn Mary Olesko (born 1951)[1] is an American historian of science.
She is an associate professor at Georgetown University, where she is affiliated with the Science, Technology and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service, the Department of History, and the Department of German.
[4] Her edited volumes include Science in Germany: The Interaction of Institutional and Intellectual Issues (1990).
She chaired the AAAS Section on the History and Philosophy of Science for the 1996–1997 term.
[3] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016, after a nomination by the APS Forum on the History of Physics, "for foundational contributions to the history of physics pedagogy and prolific editorial work in service of the history of science".