ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

While working on this project I have been fortunate to receive encourage-

ment and support from many people. This group includes Roger Backhouse,
Alex Csiszar, Christian Daye, David Engerman, Peter Galison, Christopher
Green, Pieter Huistra, Joel Isaac, Noortje Jacobs, David Kaiser, Alice Kehoe,
Donald McGraw, Neil McLaughin, Wade Pickren, Alexandra Rutherford,
Thomas Teo, Krist Vaesen, Jessica Wang, and Nadine Weidman. I am grateful
to those who provided me with valuable feedback on earlier versions of one
or more chapters: Janet Abbate, Robert Adcock, Michael Bernstein, How-
ard Brick, Jamie Cohen-­Cole, Matthew Farish, Philippe Fontaine, Daniel
Geary, Emily Gibson, Thomas Gieryn, Hunter Heyck, Sarah Igo, Andrew
Jewett, Michael Pettit, Jeff Pooley, Ted Porter, and Joy Rohde. My friend
Juan Ilerbaig and my colleague Marga Vicedo deserve special thanks for read-
ing, commenting on, and discussing the entire manuscript with me—­and
more than once. Juan assisted me by putting together the funding and orga-
nizational charts as well. Marga, who is also my dear wife, has helped me to
become a better scholar in many ways, which has also helped to make this a
much better study.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge my debt to those who facilitated access to
certain published and unpublished materials: Richard Atkinson, Ann Bush-
miller, Sonja Gardner-Clarke, Onaona Guay, Elise Lipkowitz, Marc Rothen-
berg, Leo Slater, and Brock Temanson. Thanks as well to those who helped
with permissions to use archival collections and documents: Janice Gold-
blum (National Academy of Sciences), Daniel Meyer (University of Chicago
Library Special Collections Research Center), Mary M. Clark (Columbia
Center for Oral History Research), Mary Ann Quinn (Rockefeller Archive
Center). Others deserve my gratitude for helping me to find and secure per-
mission to use images of individuals who I thought should be seen, not just
discussed: Emma Alpert, Geoffrey Alpert, Spencer Alpert, Roberta Balstad,
Christina Bartlett-­Whitcom, Steve Branch, Janice Davis, Angela Fritz, Michael

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Gaetani, Jennifer Hadley, Randall Hagadorn, Fred Harris, Elizabeth Hogan,

Lisa Marine, Eric Marshall, Julianne Mattera, Erica Mosner, Wendy Naus,
Sherry Ortner, Erica Raskin, Jamie Raskin, Annie Riecken, Gilson Riecken,
Susan Riecken, and Erica Weingartner.
My editor at MIT Press, Katie Helke, has been wonderful. Ever since I first
told her about this project, back at the 2017 annual meeting of the History
of Science Society, she has given me all of the encouragement, guidance, and
reassurance that I could have reasonably hoped for. Her assistant, Laura
Keeler, has provided superb support as well. At Westchester Publishing Ser-
vices, Helen Wheeler made sure that the production process went smoothly,
which included responding in a timely manner to my questions and concerns.
I am happy to recognize the institutions that have provided me with gain-
ful employment and research funding. Without their support, this study
would have been much harder to carry out properly: the Canadian Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council; and the University of Toronto,
especially the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Victoria
College, Victoria University, and the College of Arts and Sciences. And a few
of my Toronto colleagues have supplied much appreciated inspiration and
fellowship: Hakob Barseghyan, Anne-­Emanuelle Birn, David Cook, Angela
Estherhammer, Craig Fraser, Paul Gooch, Eric Jennings, Paul Kingston,
Nikolai Krementsov, Vanina Leschziner, Kanta Murali, Valentina Napoli-
tano, Will Robins, and Denis Walsh. I also had the good fortune of spending
a year in the congenial environment of the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey, which was great for getting a good chunk of writing
done on the first full draft.
Finally, for adding richness, fun, movies, and occasionally a bit of drama
to my life, a big hug to my two families in the U.S. and Spain, to all of my
good friends near and far, and to the amazing HAT.

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