Joan Warnow-Blewett Explained
Joan Warnow-Blewett |
Birth Name: | Joan Carol Nelson |
Birth Date: | 11 December 1931 |
Death Place: | Alamo, California U.S. |
Other Names: | Joan Nelson Joan Warnow Joan Blewett |
Occupation: | Archivist |
Years Active: | 1965–1997 |
Spouse: | |
Children: | Paul Warnow, Kimmen Sjolander, and Tandy Warnow |
Joan Carol Warnow-Blewett (née Nelson) (December 11, 1931 – May 30, 2006)[1] was an American archivist and staff member of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) for 32 years.[2]
Early life
Warnow-Blewett was born to parents David Nelson and Edith Nelson (née Sjölander), American immigrants who were born in Sweden.[3]
Career
In 1965, Warnow-Blewett was hired at American Institute of Physics (AIP) as Librarian of the Niels Bohr Library. In 1974, she was promoted to Associate Director for the Center for History of Physics.[4]
From 1986 to 1989, she was a council member of the Society of American Archivists.[5]
Contribution to scientific collaboration
Warnow-Blewett's work was a significant influence on the book, Structures of Scientific Collaboration by Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth and Ivan Chompalov.[6]
Starting in 1989, she assembled a multi-disciplinary team including social sciences, history and archives. This team collected data on 60 scientific collaborations over the span of a decade. They coded the interviews with the collaborative teams in order to create a massive database covering themes such as "invention and practice; and issues of specialization, decision-making, values, subcontracting, instrumentation, funding and, of course, credit allocation."[7]
Personal life
Warnow-Blewett was married three times. Her first marriage, which was until 1964, was to inventor Morton Warnow, with whom she had three children.[8] In 1983, she married physicist John Paul Blewett[9] and was married to Blewett until his death in 2000.[10] Her third marriage was to physics historian, Martin Klein. She had three children: Paul Warnow, Kimmen Sjolander, and Tandy Warnow.
Warnow-Blewett died in Alamo, California, on May 30, 2006.[11]
Selected publications
Between 1970 and 2001, Warnow-Blewett published 60 works in 105 publications. She continued to publish after her retirement from the AIP in August 1997.[12]
- Book: Warnow-Blewett. Joan. Genuth. Joel. Weart. Spencer R.. AIP Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Final Report Documenting Multi-Institutional Collaborations. 2001. Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. College Park, MD. 47204030. [13]
- Book: Warnow-Blewett. Joan. Teichmann. Jürgen. Guide to Sources for History of Solid State Physics, Report No. 6. 1992. Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. New York. 978-1-56-396068-0. 27761357.
- Book: Warnow-Blewett. Joan. Guidelines for Records Appraisal at Major Research Facilities: Selection of Permanent Records of DOE Laboratories. 1985. Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. New York. 13356678. Institutional Management and Policy, and Physics Research (AIP publication, R-324).
Notes and References
- Web site: Family. Tandy J. Warnow. 3 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160501103313/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~tandy/family.html. 1 May 2016. dead.
- Web site: History That Matters: Joan Warnow-Blewett. American Institute of Physics. 4 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20081202204155/http://www.aip.org/history/historymatters/warnow.htm. 2 December 2008.
- Web site: Sjölander. Kimmen. Joan Nelson Warnow Blewett (1931–2006) – PhyloFacts. Phylogenomics at Berkeley. 4 August 2016.
- Web site: Anderson. Joe. Joan Warnow-Blewett Retires. Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (STAMA) Mailing List. Australian Society of Archivists. 3 August 2016. 12 December 1997.
- Web site: History of SAA Leadership: Joan Warnow-Blewett 1986–89, American Institute of Physics. Society of American Archivists. 2 August 2016.
- Book: Shrum. Wesley. Genuth. Joel. Chompalov. Ivan. Structures of Scientific Collaboration. 2007. MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass.. 978-0-26-219559-1. ix, 13. 876555722.
- Hoddeson. Lillian. March 2008. Studying Big Science. American Scientist. 96. 2. 168. 10.1511/2008.70.168 .
- News: Morton Charles Warnow: Obituary. 4 August 2016. The New York Times. 8 March 2006.
- Web site: Joan Nelson mentioned in the record of John P Blewett and Joan Nelson. FamilySearch. 4 August 2016. 8 June 1983.
- News: Saxon. Wolfgang. John Paul Blewett, 89, Physicist And Designer of Accelerators. 4 August 2016. The New York Times. 19 April 2000.
- Web site: Joan N Blewett United States Social Security Death Index. FamilySearch. 4 August 2016. 30 May 2006.
- Web site: Warnow-Blewett, Joan 1931–. WorldCat Identities. OCLC. 4 August 2016.
- Web site: Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. American Institute of Physics. 4 August 2016.