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| David C. Brock Senior Research Fellow Center for Contemporary History and Policy Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| Recorded: 2/22/07 | |
| David C. Brock is a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Contemporary History and Policy of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. As an historian of science and technology, he specializes in oral history, the history of instrumentation, and the history of semiconductor science, technology, and industry. Brock has studied the philosophy, sociology, and history of science at Brown University, the University of Edinburgh, and Princeton University (respectively and chronologically). His most recent publication is Understanding Moore’s Law: Four Decades of Innovation (Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Press, 2006), which he edited and to which he contributed.
With Christophe Lécuyer, Brock has co-authored two articles in 2006 on the broad subject of what he calls the “chemical history of electronics”: a paper for the journal History and Technology titled “The Materiality of Microelectronics”, and a brief biography of Gordon E. Moore for the journal Annals of the History of Computing. Since 2004, Brock has published nine short articles in Chemical Heritage Magazine on the chemical history of electronics. In the area of public history, Brock has curated two exhibits for the Chemical Heritage Foundation: an exhibit on the history of instrumentation titled “Revolutionary Tools: Instrumentation and the Transformation of the Chemical Sciences” and a major traveling exhibit on the history of women in chemistry titled “Her Lab in Your Life”. |
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