curriculum vitae Name: Dong-Won KIM Date of Birth: June 14, 1960 Nationality: Korea, Republic of Gender: Male Address: (Work) Department of the History of Science Science Center 358 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel) 781-879-2037 (Home) 663 Lowell St. Unit 27 Lexington, MA 02420 USA Tel) 781-879-2037 E-mail address: dwkim3@yahoo.com. Education: * 1979. 3. - 1983. 2. Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Seoul National University (B.S.) * 1983. 2. - 1985. 4. Military Service * 1985. 9. - 1991. 6. Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (M.A. (1988), Ph.D. (1991)) (Doctoral Thesis: The Emergence of the Cavendish School: An Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1900 ) Academic Positions: * 1987. 12. - 1988. 5. Visiting Scholar (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) * 1988. 9. - 1989. 5. Teaching Assistant (Harvard University) * 1991. 9. - 1994. 2. Lecturer in History of Science (Seoul National University)
* 1992. 3. - 1994. 2. Lecturer in History of Science (KAIST) * 1994. 3. - 1998. 2. Assistant Professor of History of Science (KAIST) * 1998. 3. 2005. 1. Associate Professor of History of Science (KAIST) * 1998. 9. - 1999.8. Visiting Associate Professor (Department of the History of * 2001. 9. - 2001. 12. Visiting Associate Professor (Department of the History of * 2002. 9. - 2002. 12. Visiting Associate Professor (Department of the History of * 2003. 9. 2004. 8. Visiting Associate Professor (Department of the History of * 2004. 1. - 2004. 2. Visiting Research Fellow (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England) * 2005. 9. present Visiting Professor (Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University) * 2007. 9. 2014. 6. Visiting Research Fellow (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) * 2009. 8. 2012. 12. Dean of the College of Cultural Science (KAIST) * 2013. 1. - 2013. 12. Visiting Professor (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) * 2014. 1. 2014. 5. Ngee Ann Kongsi Distinguished Visiting Professor (Tembusu College, National University of Singapore) * 2014. 7. 2014. 12. Visiting Professor (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) * 2015. 1. 2015 5. Ngee Ann Kongsi Distinguished Visiting Professor (Tembusu College, National University of Singapore) * 2015. 7. 2015. 12, Visiting Professor (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) Professional Activities: * Member of History of Science Society (HSS), Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Korean History of Science Society. * 2003. 1. 2005. 12. Member of the Committee on International Scholars (SHOT). * 2003. 3. 2005. 2. Editor of the Journal of the Korean History of Science Society * 2007. 11 present President of the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia (www.dkimfoundation.org)
Research List of Publication: Papers and Articles Dong-Won Kim, The Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein (Book Review), PHYSIS, 29 (1992), 630-633. Dong-Won Kim, J.J. Thomson and the Emergence of the Cavendish School, 1885-1900, British Journal for the History of Science, 28 (1995), 191-226. Dong-Won Kim, The Emergence of Theoretical Physics in Japan: Japanese Physics Community between the Two World Wars, Annals of Science, 52 (1995), 383-402. Dong-Won Kim, Sin-itiro Tomonaga: Life of a Japanese Physicist (Book Review), ISIS, 87 (1996), 750-751. Dong-Won Kim, Two Different Influences on the Japanese Physics Community in the Early Twentieth Century, Historia Scientiarum, 7:2 (1997), 125-136. Kim Dong-Won and Stuart W. Leslie, Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes? KAIST and the Challenge of Late Industrialization, OSIRIS, 13 (1998), 154-185. Dong-Won Kim, The Conflict between the Image and Role of Physics in South Korea, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 33:1 (2002), 107-129. Dong-Won Kim, Challenges in Writing the Biography of a Japanese Physicist, American Institute of Physics Newsletter, 34:2 (2002. 11), 1-3. Dong-Won Kim, Australians and Canadians at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Early Twentieth Century, Hankuk Kawhak-sa Hakhoe-ji, 24:2 (2002), 102-120. Dong-Won Kim, Cambridge Scientific Minds (Book Review), Annals of Science, 62 (2005), 121-122. Dong-Won Kim, Two Chemists in Two Korea, Ambix, 52 (2005), 67-84. Dong-Won Kim, Yoshio Nishina and Two Cyclotrons, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36 (2006), 243-273. Dong-Won Kim, On Morris Low s Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond (Book Review), East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 (2007), 255-258. Dong-Won Kim, Challenges in Writing about Twentieth Century East Asian Physicists, in K. Gavroglu and J. Renn (eds.), Positioning the History of Science (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 39-42. Dong-Won Kim, The Longer the Stay, The Better the Result?: Nishina Yoshio s
Overseas Study in the 1920s, Historia Scientiarum, 18:2 (2008), 151-171. Dong-Won Kim, Imaginary Savior: The Image of the Nuclear Bomb in Korea, 1945-1960, Historia Scientiarum, 19:2 (2009), 105-118. A few other papers in Korean Books Dong-Won Kim, Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1919 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002). Dong-Won Kim, Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan (London: Taylor and Francis, 2007). Two books on the history of KAIST (in Korean in 1995, 2005) The 30 Year History of the Ministry of Science and Technology (in Korean 1997) Conference Papers Dong-Won Kim, The Emergence of the Cavendish School, History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting (Madison, November 1991). Dong-Won Kim, The Emergence of Theoretical Physics in Japan: The Japanese Physics Community between the Two World Wars, HSS Annual Meeting (New Orleans, October 1994). Dong-Won Kim, Other Seeds Fell on Good Soil and Brought Forth Grain : Frederick Terman s Dream and the Success of KAIST, International Conference on Science, Technology and Culture (Taejon, South Korea, June 1996). Dong-Won Kim, Two Different Styles of Physics in Japan: Japanese Physicists in Britain and Germany, 3 rd British-North American History of Science Meeting (Edinburgh, July 1996). Dong-Won Kim, Steeple of Excellence: The Bold Experiment of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting (Pasadena, October 1997). Dong-Won Kim, Y. Nishina and the Japanese Physics Community in the 1930s, HSS Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh, November 1999). Dong-Won Kim, Why Physics? The Conflicting Role and Image of Physics in South Korea, HSS Annual Meeting (Vancouver, November 2000).
Dong-Won Kim, Australians and Canadians at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Early Twentieth Century, 4 th British-North American Joint Meeting of BSHS, CSHPS and HSS (St. Louis, August 2000). Dong-Won Kim, The Two Cyclotrons of Yoshio Nishina, International Congress of History of Science (Mexico City, July 2001). Dong-Won Kim and Geun Bae Kim, Two Chemists, Two Koreas: Science, Ideology and Economic Development in Twentieth Century Korea, International Congress of History of Science (Mexico City, July 2001). Dong-Won Kim, Which Way Next for High-Tech Korea? The Dilemma of Samsung Electronics, International Workshop: Places of Innovations, Sites of Discovery (Jerusalem, November 2001). Dong-Won Kim, The Challenges of Writing the Biography of a Japanese Physicist: Yoshio Nishina, Needham Research Institute Colloquium (Cambridge, February 2003). Dong-Won Kim, How Did a Wrong Ideology Destroy a Healthy Physics Community?: Physics in North Korea between 1953 and 1980, HSS Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA., November 2003). Dong-Won Kim, Two Chemists in Two Koreas: Science, Politics and National Division, East Asian Studies Colloquium (Columbia University, March 2005) Dong-Won Kim, Yoshio Nishina and Two Cyclotrons. Department of History of Science and Technology Colloquium (Johns Hopkins University, March 2006) Dong-Won Kim, The Role of Academia in the Nuclear Development of South and North Korea, 1953-1979, Nuclear Asia: A Symposium on Policy, Proliferation, and Weapons Research in the Cold War and Beyond (Bowling Green University, October 2007). Dong-Won Kim, Two Different Images of the Nuclear Bomb in Japan and Korea, 1945-1960, HSS Annual Meeting (Washington, DC, November 2007). Dong-Won Kim, The Longer the Stay, The Better the Result?: Yoshio Nishina s Overseas Study and the Japanese Physics Community in the Early Twentieth Century, Locating Japanese Science and Technology: Place and the Production of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University, January 2008). Dong-Won Kim, Fruitless Tree: Keijo Imperial University and the Development of Science and Engineering in Korea, 12th International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia (Baltimore, July 2008). Dong-Won Kim, Imaginary Savior: The Image of the Nuclear Bomb in Korea, 1945-1960, Beyond Difference: International Symposium on Nuke Histories in Japan and Korea (Tokyo, March 2009).
Dong-Won Kim, Two Different Images of the Nuclear Bomb in Japan and Korea, 1945-1960, East Asian Studies Colloquium at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, March 2009). Dong-Won Kim, The Legacy of Japanese Science in Korea, 1931-1961, UCLA Workshop on Dis/continuities: Nation-State Formation in Japan with Science, Technology, and Medicine during Imperialism, War, Occupation, and Peace, 1932-1962 (Los Angeles, May 2009). Dong-Won Kim, Ignored and Forgotten: Korean Nuclear Victims and Survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (Tokyo, August, 2010). Dong-Won Kim, Education for Bridging the Technology Gab: South Korean Academy and the Semiconductor Industry, The 4 th International Conference (Institute of Historical Research, Seoul National University): Bridging the Technology Gab (Seoul, November 2010). Dong-Won Kim, Star Wars vs. Seopyeonje: Science in Popular Culture in South Korea, Kim Ku Forum on Korea Current Affairs (Harvard University, February 28, 2013). Dong-Won Kim, Star Wars vs. Seopyeonje: The Images of Science and Technology in South Korea, Distinguished Lecture (Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, March 4, 2014). Dong-Won Kim, Science Fiction in South and North Korea, Popularizing Science in the East and West: International Symposium on the Popularization of Science (Tokyo, March 28, 2015). Present and Future Research Subjects Science, Technology and Society in Modern East Asia (textbook) History of Samsung Electronics (book project) Cosmic Ray Research in the 20 th Century (paper and book projects) Popular Image of Science and Technology in East Asia (paper and book projects)