BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:UW-Madison-Physics-Events BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 UID:UW-Physics-Event-9743 DTSTART:20270312T213000Z DTEND:20270313T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260627T135230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260626T181648Z LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall SUMMARY:In Referees We Trust? The Rise of Peer Review\, Physics Depart ment Colloquium\, Melinda Baldwin\, University of Maryland DESCRIPTION:Many modern observers consider peer review an essential me chanism that protects the trustworthiness and quality of both scientif ic journals and scientific grantmaking. But how did the practice of re fereeing originate\, and how did it become tied to scientific legitima cy in the eyes of both scientists and laymen? Peer review is now so em bedded in modern science that many observers have assumed external ref ereeing has been a consistent part of science since the Scientific Rev olution. However\, as this talk will show\, the practice of refereeing did not truly develop until the 19th century\, and for well over a hu ndred years refereeing was not seen as essential or even particularly important. It was not until the late 20th century that “peer review —a term that first came into use in the 1960s and 1970s—became s een as a prerequisite for scientific legitimacy. The image of refereei ng as an essential feature of science arose first in the Cold War Unit ed States in the wake of a series of political attacks on scientific f unding. To head off attempts to require Congressional review for indiv idual scientific grants\, scientists and their supporters argued that peer review was a crucial process that ensured the credibility of scie nce as a whole. This vision of peer review took hold with remarkable s peed\, and today\, peer review is seen as a cornerstone of science. URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9743 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR