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CORVALLIS - Peter Galison, who holds an endowed chair in the history of science at Harvard University, will deliver a Horning Lecture at Oregon State University on Thursday, May 22, that looks at how print and film have portrayed the hydrogen bomb.

His lecture, "Filming & Writing History: The H-bomb Debate," begins at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Power Leadership Center at OSU's Memorial Union. It is free and open to the public.

Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard, where he has become a prominent figure in linking science with other disciplines. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1997-2002, and received the Max Planck Prize in 1999.

In his lecture, Galison will examine the scientific, political and moral implications and history of the development of the hydrogen bomb, and how print and film have illuminated certain aspects of that history while ignoring or obscuring others.

He also will look at how print and film depictions of historical events often differ.

Galison is co-author of a forthcoming book on the history of scientific objectivity. He also is the author of "How Experiments End," 1987; "Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics," 1997; and "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time," 2003. He also has co-edited a series of volumes about science and art, architecture, film and writing.

The lecture is part of the university's Horning Lecture Series, "Writing about Science and Scientists: Genres of Fact and Fiction." OSU's Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Endowment sponsors the series.