Jimena Canales

Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American physicist and engineer, and award-winning historian of science and author.

Career

Jimena Canales is the author of the award-winning The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10445.html and A Tenth of a Second: A History: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo6922088.html^[1] as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, and The New Yorker, among others).

After finishing her studies in engineering physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 1995, she obtained a master's degree in History of Science at the Harvard University and later a PhD in History Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor.^[2] In 2012 she was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie and in the summer she worked as a visiting professor at the Summer School for Media Studies at Princeton University in the German department.^[3] In 2013 she was awarded the title "Thomas M.Siebel Chair in the History of Science" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[4]

Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.^[5]

Books

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• A Tenth of a Second: A History: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo6922088.html^[1]
• The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10445.html

Awards

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• Best Science Books for 2015^[9]
• Independent’s Top Reads of 2015^[10]
• Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2015^[11]
• Charles A. Ryskamp Award from the American Council of Learned Societies^[12]
• University of Chicago Press Bevington Prize (2008)^[13]
• Prize for Young Scholars (2005), awarded by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science ^[14]

References

External links

• Personal Website