Biography
Peter Thompson specializes in the history of modern science, technology, and the environment. His scholarly interests include the history of chemistry, technological approaches to environmental problems, and science under fascism. Increasingly, he is engaging with the emergent field of animal history. His first book, The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2023), narrates the German production and use of the gas mask between the world wars.
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