I didn’t know too many people in DC, and it was quite a big up-rooting from the seven years I had spent in Cambridge. I did not have many academic colleagues at AIP there were a few other historians, and it didn’t have the same kind of rich intellectual atmosphere as Harvard (which is not its fault it is a different sort of institution and organization). As time goes on I increasingly recognize how rare that sort of environment is in our world.īut AIP came with its challenges as well. I met a lot of great people there (many life-long friends), and got to experience the rare joy of learning about new things for their own sake for many years on end. in History) a few years before, it was still an overwhelmingly great experience. I had enjoyed graduate school quite a lot despite the many anxieties and difficulties associated with both the educational experience and the total collapse of the economy (and the academic job market, esp. So going to AIP, near Washington, DC, was a big change - and a welcome one. I had gotten my PhD the year before, and had spent another year at Harvard on a postdoc/lecturer gig. When I started this blog in 2011, I was a postdoc at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
These days I do not try to look older, it comes naturally.
This was when I was trying out having a light beard in order to both fit in better at the Kennedy School, and also to look a little older. Me, six months before I started the blog, at my Harvard History of Science Commencement ceremony, with my main Harvard advisors, Peter Galison and Sheila Jasanoff.
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