Physics and History, Data and Time

As academic disciplines, physics and history took their present form in the half-century centered on 1900, shaping themselves as empirically grounded disciplines of temporal dynamics -- namely, structured, force-driven processes of fast or slow change. This talk in honor of Peter L. Galison reflects on the forms of thought and life that go with being a historian of physics in the contemporary university, and the places that temporal identity may take one in an age of data science.