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Karin Zachmann
Technical University of Munich
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Technical University of Munich
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Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Science
Technology
About Me
Karin Zachmann (Dr.) is Associate Professor for the history of technology at the MCTS and the School of Education at the TUM. After studying economics and history at the University of Leipzig, Prof. Zachmann did her doctorate at TU Dresden. She completed her habilitation and lecturer qualification at TU Darmstadt. She has worked at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, TU Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin as a visiting professor. She is known internationally for her scholarship on engineering professions and technical education; co-construction of technology and users; gender history; technologies of the Cold War; industrialization of food and biofacts of the atomic age. Her current research focuses on the question how knowledge gains or loses credibility. For studying this question, she analyses societal disputes on the safety of technology in divided Germany.
My Abstracts
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Semantics Of Biofacts: Introducing Atomic Agriculture In Africa
Speaking Engagement
1. Reshaping Nature: Atomic Agriculture In The Cold War Era
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25 Jul, 2019
Historians of science have widely investigated the impact of the atomic bomb on the development of post-WW2 life sciences, thoroughly documenting how ...
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Technology
Co-Authors
Francesco Cassata
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