Paul, Chair of the STS Program from 2003 to 2006, is a specialist in the history of twentieth-century science and technology. His research to date has focused upon Soviet science and technology. In recent years, he has sought to evaluate the extent to which the American, German, Brazilian, Norwegian, and East Europe experience differs from that of the Soviet Union. Paul is also working on a biography of a recent Nobel laureate in physics, Zhores Alferov. Paul runs marathons, and worries about the terrible human and ecological costs of snowmobiles, jet-skis and other ATVs. Top