Heims, Steve J(oshua)
HEIMS, Steve J(oshua)
HEIMS, Steve J(oshua). American (born Germany), b. 1926. Genres: Environmental sciences/Ecology, History, Intellectual history, Physics, Sciences, Biography. Career: Friends' Service Committee, volunteer worker in Mexico, 1951-52; National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, Mountain View, CA, research scientist, 1955-58; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, research fellow and assistant professor of physics, 1960-65; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, associate professor of physics, 1966-69; Boston University, MA, visiting professor of history and philosophy of science, 1970-71. Visiting member of faculty at University of New Hampshire, Brandeis University, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Lesley College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1975-84. Publications: John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death, 1980; (ed. and contrib.) Passages from Berlin, 1987; The Cybernetics Group, 1991 (as Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group 1946-1953, 1993). Address: 14 Babson St, Gloucester, MA 01930-3604, U.S.A.