Year of Election
Division
Nationality
Country/Region of working/living
City
Institute
CV
2024
Social Sciences and Humanities Division
Greek
Greece
Athens
University of Athens
Theodore Arabatzis holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA and a PhD in History of Science from Princeton University. He was awarded fellowships from Princeton, MIT, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His research has focused on the history of modern physical sciences and on historically informed philosophy of science. He has published numerous articles in these areas in academic journals and edited collections. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and co-editor of: Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited (Routledge, 2012); Relocating the History of Science (Springer, 2015); and Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts (IOP, 2023). He served as co-editor of the journal Metascience (2010-2014). In 2017 he was awarded the IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. In 2019 he was elected corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science. He has served the European Society for the History of Science as President-Elect (2018–2020), as President (2020-2022), and as Vice-President (2022-2024). More detailed information about his work can be found at http://scholar.uoa.gr/tarabatz/home.