Néstor Herran

Néstor Herran is associate professor (maître de conférences) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. His main area of interest is the history of physical sciences in the 20th century, with particular interest on the history of radioactivity and nuclear technology. His current research deals with the history of environmental monitoring of radioactivity.

Publications

• Simone Turchetti, Néstor Herran & Soraya Boudia (forthcoming). "Have we ever been transnational? Towards a history of science across and beyond borders". British Journal for the History of Science.

• Néstor Herran (2009). "Isotope networks : training, sales and publications, 1946-1965", Dynamis 29: 285-306.

• Néstor Herran & Xavier Roqué (2009). "Tracers of modern technoscience" , Dynamis 29: 123-130.

• Néstor Herran (2008). Aguas, semillas y radiaciones. El Laboratorio de Radiactividad de la Universidad de Madrid, 1904-1929. Madrid: CSIC.

• Néstor Herran & Josep Simon, eds. (2008). Beyond Borders: Fresh Perspectives in History of Science. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Introduction]

• Néstor Herran (2006). “Spreading Nucleonics: the Isotope School at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 1951-1967”, British Journal of the History of Science 39(4): 569–586.

• Néstor Herran (2005). “Building Interdisciplinarity: An Instrumental Framework for the History of Radiocarbon Dating”. In: A. Mülberger & B. Gómez-Zúñiga, Recent Contributions to the History of the Human Sciences. Munich: Profil, p. 148-165.

• Néstor Herran & Xavier Roqué (2003). “Radioisótopos en España: perspectivas historiográficas y proyectos en curso”. In Maria Jesús Santesmases; Ana Romero, eds. La física y las ciencias de la vida en el siglo XX: radioactividad y biología. Madrid: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, p. 41-52.