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Peter Thompson

Assistant Professor

208B Old Horticulture

thom2399@msu.edu

Biography

Peter Thompson is a historian of modern science, technology, and the environment. His broad scholarly interests include 20th century military technoscience, technological approaches to environmental problems, and the history of the chemical industry. 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 betwe

Publications

Thompson, Peter. The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2023.