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Poland recovers from war/ constructing Republic of Poland
dates are arbitrarily assigned, years are approximately accurate -
BIRTH: Langdon Winner
California -
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Communism in Poland (Stalinism)
dates arbitrarily assigned, years approx. correct -
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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WWII ends in Europe
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BIRTH Ronald Kline
Oswego, Kansas (date not approximate, just year) -
BIRTH Bruno Latour
France -
NATO is formed
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Soviet Union drops atomic bomb in Kazakhstan
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BIRTH Steve Woolgar
(England) -
BIRTH Wiebe E. Bijker
Netherlands -
BIRTH Trevor Pinch
Northern Ireland (note violence in N. Ireland 60s-70s especially) -
Soviets launch Sputnik
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Fidel Castro becomes prime minister
(Cuba) -
BIRTH Nina Lerman
Possibly WA, source not reliable (date not exact) -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The US tried to spark the downfall of communism in Cuba by launching an attack on Cuba and hoping Cubans overthrow Castro, but instead it made him stronger and turn to the Soviet Union for acquisition of missiles and other forms of arms assistance. -
Cuba officially socialist state under Fidel Castro
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Construction of Berlin Wall
Purpose of wall was to separate East and West Berlin. Symbolically divided Europe. West Berlin had hopes of democracy and people from the East side escaped to the West part of Germany, so Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet leader) proposed separating the country. -
Castro calls himself a Marxist-Leninist
on TV -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 days of tension, people feared start of nuclear war. Kennedy tells Americans missiles are in Cuba and if necessary, USA would step in since it's a breach of security. -
China's atomic bomb
China prior to explosion worried US for hinting at "worldwide revolution against ... capitalism.. to extend its influence in Asia and ... new nations of Africa" -
BIRTH Gabrielle Hecht
(Puerto Rico), exact date unknown -
Langdon Winner receives BA political Science from UC Berkeley
(incorrect date, right year) -
Langdon Winner receives Masters (political science) UC Berkeley
(incorrect date, right year) -
Ronald Kline receives BS Electrical Engineering
Kansas State University (date not exact) -
Steve Woolgar receives BA (Engineering Tripos: Management)
Cambridge University (correct year, date not exact) -
Langdon Winner receives PhD (political science) UC Berkeley
(incorrect date, right year) -
Trevor Pinch receives his BS, A.R.C.S., Physics
Imperial College, London University (date not fully correct, year correct) -
Wiebe Bijker receives BSc in Philosophy
University of Amsterdam (year correct, date not exact) -
South Vietnam taken over by communism
Around same time Nixon leaves office and Ford enters office -
Bruno Latour receives PhD in Theology (former background philosophy)
University of Tours, France (date not exact) -
Soviets & Cuba bring communism to Angola
This happened right after Angola was to gain independence (date not exact) -
Trevor Pinch receives M.Sc., Liberal Studies of Science
University of Manchester, Dissertation: “Hidden Variables, Impossibility Proofs and Paradoxes: A Sociological Study of Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics” (date not exact, year correct) -
Wiebe Bijker receives engineer's degree (physical engineering)
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) -- date not exact, correct year -
Steve Woolgar receives MA
Cambridge University (date not exact) -
Steve Woolgar receives PhD (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge)
Cambridge University (date not exact) -
Ronald Kline receives MA (History of Science)
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)- date not exact -
Langdon Winner
‘Do Artefacts have Politics’ (date not accurate) -
Solidarity (Solidarnosc) forms
A Polish trade union anti-Communist party forms to advocate for union and workers and go against communist diction. This marked a huge point in Polish history, as labor unions resulted from this movement. Prior to creation of the unions, workers were jailed for striking. Solidarnosc movement marked workers' opposition. -
Langdon Winner
During winter of 1980, Langdon Winner publishes "Do Artefacts have Politics" [[[Langdon Winner (1980) ‘Do Artefacts have Politics,’ Daedalus109(1): 121-136]]] -
Trevor Pinch receives his Ph.D. in Sociology
University of Bath (England); Dissertation: “The Development of Solar-Neutrino Astronomy” (year correct, date not fully accurate) -
Ronald Kline receives PhD (History of Science)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (date not exact) -
Nina Lerman receives BA
Bryn Mawr College, can't find major but indicated minor in Mathematics, but the site hints computer science (date not exact) -
Trevor Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker publish co-authored book
‘The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,’ -
Trevor Pinch & Wiebe Bijker
In August of 1984, Pinch & Bijker publish "The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other." [[Trevor Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker (1984) ‘The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,’ Social Studies of Science14(3): 399–441]] -
Mikhail Gorbachev, new leader of Soviet Union
His goals are to reform Soviet and spearhead economic reconstruction (perestroika) and impose transparent rights, freedoms (glasnost). He cut Soviet military spending, improved ties with US and Europe, took Soviet troops out of some of the places they invaded, ceased helping Cuba financially, and much more. -
Gabrielle Hecht receives BA (Physics)
MIT (date not exact) -
Gabrielle Hecht receives MA (History and Sociology of Science)
University of Pennsylvania (date not exact) -
No more communism in Poland
Solidarity party wins election (landslide) -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Many saw this as a coming to an end of the Cold War -
Steve Woolgar
Publishes "Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials" -
Wiebe Bijker receives PhD (History and Sociology of Technology)
correct year, date not exact -
Reunifying Germany
Known as Unity Day, East & West Germany are formally brought together -
End of Soviet Union
Motion led by Boris Yeltsin -
Bruno Latour
Publishes ‘Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts' -
Gabrielle Hecht receives PhD (History and Sociology of Science)
University of Pennsylvania (date not exact) -
Nina Lerman receives PhD
(major / focus not indicated, but her page lists interests as being: 18th and 19th Century US, gender and race, History of Technology/Medicine/Science)
University of Pennsylvania (date not exact) -
Ronald R. Kline and Trevor Pinch
Publish "Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States" (date is approximate, correct month and year) -
Nina Lerman
Publishes 'Preparing for the Duties and Practical Business of Life' -
Gabrielle Hecht
Publishes 'The Power of Nuclear Things'
