Jimena Canales

Jimena Canales
Jimena Canales
Born	Jimena Canales; Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Writer
Notable works	A Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time

Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American physicist and engineer, and award-winning historian of science and author.

Career

After finishing her studies in engineering physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 1995, she obtained a master's degree in History of Science at the Harvard University and later a PhD in History Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor.^[1] In 2012 she was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie and in the summer she worked as a visiting professor at the Summer School for Media Studies at Princeton University in the German department.^[2] In 2013 she was awarded the title "Thomas M.Siebel Chair in the History of Science" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[3] She is author of two books (The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10445.html and A Tenth of a Second: A History: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo6922088.html^[4]) as well as several newspaper and magazine articles about the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology. Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour and the artist Olafur Eliasson.^[5]

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10445.html
A Tenth of a Second: A History: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo6922088.html^[4]

Best Science Books for 2015^[9]
Independent’s Top Reads of 2015^[10]
Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2015^[11]
Charles A. Ryskamp Award from the American Council of Learned Societies^[12]
University of Chicago Press Bevington Prize (2008)^[13]
Prize for Young Scholars (2005), awarded by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, History of Science ^[14]

Jimena Canales
Born	Jimena Canales Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Writer
Notable works	A Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time