Peter Westwick
- Adjunct Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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Expertise
- history of modern science and technology
- history of modern physics and physical science
- science and national security
- science and technology in the Cold War
- history of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction
- history of the Space Age, the space race, and planetary and solar system exploration
- history of aviation industry and Southern California aerospace
- history of surfing
Languages
- French
Additional Information
- Author: Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Yale University Press, 2006), winner of Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award of American Astronautical Society; The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (Harvard University Press, 2003), winner of Book Prize of Forum for History of Science in America
- Editor, Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (University of California Press, 2012)
- Currently working on a history of Strategic Defense Initiative and a history of surfing