Karl Hall received his BSc in Physics in 1989 from Stanford and a BA in History from the same University, at the same year. He was awarded his PhD in History of Science in 1999. Karl Hall joined the History Department of Central European University in 2003, where he teaches courses on Central and East European intellectual history as an Associate Professor. Hall has held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT) and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin). His research interests include industrial laboratories, intellectual property, and tacit knowledge, post-1945 transformations of East European scientific institutions, Western scientists as anthropologists and critics of the Soviet experiment and national cultural historiographies of science before 1945. He has published more than fifteen articles in the last 16 years.
Karl Hall received his BSc in Physics in 1989 from Stanford and a BA in History from the same University, at the same year. He was awarded his PhD in History of Science in 1999. Karl Hall joined the History Department of Central European University in 2003, where he teaches courses on Central and East European intellectual history as an Associate Professor. Hall has held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT) and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin). His research interests include industrial laboratories, intellectual property, and tacit knowledge, post-1945 transformations of East European scientific institutions, Western scientists as anthropologists and critics of the Soviet experiment and national cultural historiographies of science before 1945. He has published more than fifteen articles in the last 16 years.