Adrienne Kolb

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Adrienne W. Kolb is an American historian of science who worked for many years as the archivist and historian at Fermilab.[1]

Education and career[]

Kolb studied history at the University of New Orleans,[2] graduating in 1972.[3] She came to Fermilab as an assistant to Lillian Hoddeson in 1983, and retired in 2015.[1][2]

Books[]

With Hoddeson and Catherine Westfall, Kolb is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).[4]

With Hoddeson and Michael Riordan, Kolb is the coauthor of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (University of Chicago Press, 2015).[5]

Personal life[]

Kolb is married to Edward ("Rocky") Kolb, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Matthews, Jermey N. A. (March 2016), "Questions and answers with Adrienne Kolb", Physics Today, {AIP} Publishing, doi:10.1063/pt.5.3034
  2. ^ a b c Higgins, Valerie (June 23, 2015), Adrienne Kolb retires, Fermilab
  3. ^ "Adrienne W. Kolb (Fermilab)", Inspire, retrieved 2020-06-26
  4. ^ Reviews of Fermilab:
  5. ^ Reviews of Tunnel Visions:
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