The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
Editor-in-chief: Hugh Richard Slotten
Author Information
Editor-in-chief: Hugh Richard Slotten, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago
Hugh Richard Slotten is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. During the 2010/2011 academic year, he was the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of three major books in the history of technology and science in the United States: Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2009); Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); and Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Contributors:
Hugh R. Slotten (University of Otago), editor-in-chief
Susan Lederer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), senior editor
Ron L. Numbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison), senior editor
Gregory A. Good (American Institute of Physics), associate editor
Karen Rader (Virginia Commonwealth University), associate editor
Charles Rosenberg (Harvard University), associate editor
Mark Solovey (University of Toronto), associate editor
Steven W. Usselman (Georgia Tech), associate editor
Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto), associate editor
