Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is a historian of science, technology, and environment whose work focuses on chemical protection technologies in 20th-century Germany. He was a 2021–2022 Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science History Institute.
More from Peter Thompson
Distillations Magazine
Like Monstrosities from Another World
The gas mask’s grip on our collective consciousness.
Exhibitions
Biting Words
In the mid-20th century tensions between humans and mosquitoes reached fever pitch.