Stuart W. Leslie has taught the history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins University since 1981. He is best known for his work on Cold War science in the US and in the developing world, including MIT's support of new technical universities in Iran and India, Stanford University's support of technical universities in South Korea, and secret US military bases in Greenland, Eritrea, and Australia. His studies of laboratory design include articles on I. M. Pei’s National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute, Eero Saarinen's laboratories of General Motors and Bell Laboratories, Edward Durell Stone’s universities and nuclear facilities in Pakistan and India, and Cold War suburbs and aerospace modernism in Southern California.  He has written extensively on healthcare design in the developed and developing world, notably Eberhard Zeidler's McMaster University Health Sciences Centre in Hamilton, Ontario and Bertrand Goldberg's SUNY Stony Brook Health Sciences Center on Long Island, NY, studies of rural healthcare in India and Bangladesh, British colonial hospitals in East and West Africa, and the Aga Khan hospitals in Pakistan and Kenya.  In 2024 he received the Leonardo da Vinci medal, "the highest recognition from the Society of the History of Technology."