I joined the History Department of Central European University in 2003, where I teach courses on Central and East European intellectual history. Trained at Harvard University as a historian of science, I have written primarily about Soviet physics. My research interests include industrial laboratories, intellectual property, and tacit knowledge; post-1945 transformations of East European scientific institutions; Western scientists as anthropologists and critics of the Soviet experiment; the history of the race concept in imperial Russia; national cultural historiographies of science in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Russia (as well as Austria and Germany) before 1945. I have held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT) and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin).

Location

Budapest

Disciplines

• History
• History of Science and Medicine

Affiliation

Central European University

Website

http://people.ceu.edu/karl_hall