Katherine Brading
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| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Occupations | Philosopher of science, historian of science |
| Known for | Work on symmetry in physics, Noether’s theorem, Émilie du Châtelet |
| Title | Professor of Philosophy |
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| Thesis | Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem (2001) |
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Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970)[1] is a philosopher of science and historian of science whose works have concerned theoretical physics, symmetry, and Émilie du Châtelet. Educated in England, she works in the US as a professor of philosophy at Duke University.
Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992.[2] She completed her doctorate (D.Phil.) at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 2001, with the dissertation Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem.[1]
In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University.[3] Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.[4]
