Erik Conway is historian of science and technology living in Altadena, California. he completed a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998, with a dissertation on the development of aircraft landing aids. He is the historian of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a unit of Caltech.

His most recent books are "The Big Myth: How Business taught Americans to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market," with Naomi Oreskes, due from Bloomsbury and "A History of Near-Earth Objects Research," with Donald K. Yeomans and Meg Rosenburg, published in July 2022. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship with Naomi Oreskes, and served as the inaugural Fellow for the joint Caltech/Huntington Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology. He has one more book manuscript trapped in the publication chain: "Electrical Conquest," edited with W. Bernard Carlson.

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