Zuoyue Wang

Zuoyue Wang

Professor, History, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

About Me

Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializing in science, technology, and politics in modern US, China, and transnational contexts. Born in China and originally trained in physics, he received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara and published In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (Rutgers University Press, 2008; Chinese translation by Peking University Press in 2011). He is currently studying the history of Chinese American scientists and engineers and US-China scientific relations, for which he received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2010-2014. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019. (Old home page 1999-2022 archived here)

王作跃(Zuoyue Wang)1986年从中国科学院赴美留学,现任加州州立理工大学普莫娜分校(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)历史系教授,主要研究美国、中国和跨国近现代科技史。发表中英文著作包括《在卫星的阴影下:美国总统科学顾问委员会与冷战中的美国》和《科技革命与美国现代化》。曾分享美国科学史学会2003年的普莱斯(Price-Webster)最佳论文奖。2010-2014年获得美国国家科学基金会(NSF)资助,研究留美华人科学家历史。2019年当选为美国科学促进会会士(AAAS Fellow)。