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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

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Gerald Holton

Gerald Holton

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. As a student of Percy Williams Bridgman, he obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1948 and his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1941. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists. Along with co-author Gerhard Sonnert he has studied and published works on the gender gap in science studies and careers.

Gerald Holton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is founding editor of the quarterly journal Daedalus, and founder of Science, Society, & Human Values. He was also on the editorial committee of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Professor Holton has received the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics, and the Abraham Pais Prize of the American Physical Society.

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