Adrienne W. Kolb is an American

historian of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

who worked for many years as the archivist and historian at

Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle phys ...

Education and career

Kolb studied history at the

University of New Orleans The University of New Orleans (UNO) is a Public university, public research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. First opened in 1958 as Louisiana State University in New Orleans, it is the largest public university and one of t ...

, graduating in 1972. She came to Fermilab as an assistant to

Lillian Hoddeson Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City) is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Education and career Hoddeson received in 1957 a ...

in 1983, and retired in 2015.

Books

With Hoddeson and

Catherine Westfall Catherine Lee Westfall is an American historian of science known for her work documenting the history of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories. Education and career Westfall completed a Ph.D. at Michigan State University i ...

, Kolb is the coauthor of the book ''Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience'' (University of Chicago Press, 2008). With Hoddeson and Michael Riordan, Kolb is the coauthor of ''Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider'' (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Personal life

Kolb is married to Edward ("Rocky") Kolb, a professor of physics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

References

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