Dear MUSEUM-L,

Registration for the XXVII Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission 
at the Museum of Science, University of Lisbon is now available.
Please see the conference website at http://chcul.fc.ul.pt/sic2008/

Our guest speakers include John L. Heilbron and Thomas P. Hughes. Both have 
very long CVs, but please see below a summary of their work.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon (and Coimbra and Porto).

Please note the deadlines and do not hesitate to contact me directly if you
need more information.

Best wishes,
Marta Lourenço
OC SIC2008

J.L. Heilbron, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Science at the
University of California at Berkeley, was educated at the University of
California at Berkeley where he received the A.B. and M.A. degrees in
physics in 1955 and 1958 and a Ph.D. degree in history in 1964 under Thomas
S. Kuhn. He also served as Vice Chancellor of the University from 1990 to
1994. He has held visiting appointments as Andrew Dickson White Professor at
Large at Cornell University (1985-1991), the California Institute of
Technology (1995), Yale University (2002-2004), and the University of
Göttingen (2005).
Since 1996 he has been a Member of the Modern History Faculty of the
University of Oxford and Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Museum of
History of Science. He is also an honorary fellow of Worcester College,
Oxford.

Thomas P. Hughes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society; U.S.
National Academy of Engineering; the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Society for the History of Technology awarded him the Leonardo da Vinci
Medal; the Society for the Social Studies of Science gave him the John
Desmond Bernal Award. The Johns Hopkins University named him a member of the
Society of Fellows. The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm awarded
him an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering in 2000 and Northwestern University
conferred a Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2001.
He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin and a
visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich;
Stanford University; Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt; New School for Social
Research; and the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. Among his fellowships are
the Guggenheim and Fulbright. He has been chairman of the Dept. of the
History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; of the NASA
History Advisory Committee; of the U.S. National Committee for the History
and Philosophy of Science; and president of the Society for the History of
Technology.

SIC website:
http://www.sic.iuhps.org/

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Marta C Lourenço, PhD
Museum of Science
University of Lisbon
Rua da Escola Politécnica 56
1250-102 Lisbon
Portugal
Tel. +351 213921881/964037535
Fax +351 213909326

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