Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial studies and reflections, ed. Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger (Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005).

"Heisenberg als Wissenschaftsorganisator," in Werner Heisenberg 1901-1976: Beiträge, Berichte, Briefe — Festschrift zu seinem 100. Geburtstag, ed. Christian Kleint, Helmut Rechenberg, and Gerald Wiemers (Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 2005), 214-222.

"Reflections on Copenhagen," in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen in debate: Historical essays and documents on the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, ed. Matthias Dörries (Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005), 7-17. In German, "Reflexionen zu 'Kopenhagen,'" in Michael Frayn, Kopenhagen: Mit zehn wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Kommentaren, ed. Matthias Dörries, 3rd, rev. ed. (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003), 172-188.

"Managing the research university: Clark Kerr and the University of California" (Mary Soo and Cathryn Carson), Minerva 42 (2004): 215-236.

"Objectivity and the scientist: Heisenberg rethinks," Science in context 16 (2003): 243-269.

"Bildung als Konsumgut: Physik in der westdeutschen Nachkriegskultur," in Physik im Nachkriegsdeutschland, ed. Dieter Hoffmann (Frankfurt: Harri Deutsch, 2003), 73-85.

"Nuclear energy development in postwar West Germany: Struggles over cooperation in the Federal Republic's first reactor station," History and technology 18 (2002): 233-270.

"Heisenberg and the framework of science policy," Fortschritte der Physik 50 (2002): 432-436.

"Science advising and science policy in postwar West Germany: The example of the Deutscher Forschungsrat" (Cathryn Carson and Michael Gubser), Minerva 40 (2002): 147-179.

"Old programs, new politics? Nuclear reactor studies after 1945 in the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik," in Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung, ed. Doris Kaufmann (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2000), 726-749.

"The origins of the quantum theory," Beam line (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) 30:2 (2000): 6-19.

"New models for science in politics: Heisenberg in West Germany," Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences 30:1 (1999): 115-171.

"The peculiar notion of exchange forces — I: Origins in quantum mechanics, 1926-1928," Studies in history and philosophy of modern physics 27 (1996): 23-45; and "II: From nuclear forces to QED, 1929-1950," Studies in history and philosophy of modern physics 27 (1996): 99-131.

"Who wants a postmodern physics?", Science in context 8 (1995): 635-655.

"Computer simulation studies of the growth of strained layers by molecular-beam epitaxy" (D.A. Faux, G. Gaynor, C.L. Carson, C.K. Hall, and J. Bernholc), Physical review B42 (1990): 2914-2922.

"Efficient techniques for computer simulations of heteroepitaxial growth" (C.L. Carson, J. Bernholc, D. Faux, and C.K. Hall), Applied physics letters 56 (1990): 1971-1973.

"Modern and antimodern science: The Heidegger-Heisenberg exchange," Conference on "The cultural alchemy of the exact sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis," University of Britsh Columbia, Vancouver, March 2007.

"Categorizing waste: Defining risk between practice and politics," Workshop on "Histoire des risques nucléaires: Savoirs, régulation et politique," Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole des Mines, Paris, March 2006.

"Science and instrumental reason in the Federal Republic of Germany: Heidegger, Habermas, Heisenberg," STS Colloquium, MIT, April 2004.

"Going nuclear: Science, politics, and risk in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s," BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, February 2004.

"Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, and the German uranium project: What we know (and don't know) about the 1941 Copenhagen encounter," Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley, February 2002. Shortened version published as "Der unsichtbare Dritte," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 February 2002, p. 51.

"Placing Frayn's play in the historical tradition," Conference on "Copenhagen and beyond: Drama meets history of science," Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, September 2001.

"Physik und Soziologie: Ein Vergleich," conference on "Wissenschaften und Wissenschaftspolitik: Interaktionen, Kontinuitäten und Bruchzonen vom späten Kaiserreich bis zur frühen Bundesrepublik/DDR," Berlin, 20 May 2000.

"Werner Heisenberg and the legacies of the Third Reich: Science and politics in postwar West Germany," lunch seminar, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, April 2000.

"Physics and philosophy in culture: Heisenberg in West Germany," The Bar-Hillel Colloquium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 1998.

"Rethinking inward bound," Colloquium in honor of Silvan S. Schweber, Harvard University, March 1998.