Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the history of science and of physics at Harvard University is a former John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and, in 1999, was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung.

His work explores the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of twentieth-century physics: experimentation, instrumentation, and theory. Among his many projects, Galison has launched several that examine the powerful cross-currents between physics and other fields, including his co-edited volumes on the relations between science, art and architecture, The Architecture of Science (1999) and Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), as well as Big Science (1992), The Disunity of Science (1996), Atmospheric Flight in the 20th Century (2000), and Scientific Authorship (2003).

Professor Galison delivered the following address via videoconference at the 2006 ASC conference.