Carin Berkowitz

Carin Berkowitz is broadly interested in the intersections of science and medicine in the late Enlightenment and early 19th century and in the place of pedagogy in the medical and life sciences. She was director of the Institute’s Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry until 2018.

Berkowitz received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University.

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Pumped Up

More than 350 years ago the very first air pump changed how science was done.