CS&E Profile: Arthur Norberg

Ph.D. 1974, History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.S. 1962, Physics, University of Vermont

B.S. 1959, Physics, Providence College

Research

My research interests, all in the history of science and technology, include technological developments in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as information processing, electronics, and aviation and aerospace; innovation; the role of government in R&D; history of science since 1790; the relations among science, technology, and industry; and the context for scientific and technological development in the industrialized world.

Within these research areas I have addressed a number of issues related to sources for historical study: theme-related archival development (history of electronics, history of the nuclear sciences, history of information technology), the nature of resources for historical studies (archives and manuscripts, business records, oral history), and historical research on topics in science and technology (physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and computing) and on the way their results are used in society.