I. Bernhard Cohen was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus at Harvard at the time of his death, June 20, 2003. He was 89 years old. Cohen was one of the pioneering generation who established the study of the history of...
Erwin N. Hiebert, professor of the History of Science, was born on May 27, 1919 in Waldheim, Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up as the son of a Mennonite minister, Cornelius N. Hiebert, and Tina Harms, in a Mennonite community in Winnipeg. Although he...
John Murdoch was a historian of ancient Greek and medieval Latin science and philosophy. In alternate years he gave a lecture course on one or the other of these periods in pre-modern science. Each year he directed a seminar on both of these ancient and...
Everett Mendelsohn was on the faculty of the Department of the History of Science since 1960. He worked extensively on the history of the life sciences as well as on aspects of the social and sociological history of science and the relations of science...
Abdelhamid Ibrahim ("Bashi") Sabra, Professor Emeritus of the History of Arabic Science at Harvard University, passed away on December 18 in Lexington, Massachusetts after a long illness. Born in 1924 to a family of modest means in the Egyptian city of...
Silvan(Sam) Schweber was born in Strasbourg, France in 1928. He came to the United States in July 1942. He attended the City College of NY and graduated as a chemistry and physics major in 1947. He thereafter obtained a MS in Physics from the...
Barbara Rosenkrantz started her teaching career at Harvard as a lecturer in the History of Science Department in 1971. Professor Rosenkrantz was chair of the History of Science Department at Harvard from 1984-1989, and continued to teach at Harvard until...
Late MIT Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus (STS) Loren Graham received his B.S. from Purdue University (Chemical Engineering, 1955) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (History, 1964).
He was Professor of History at Columbia University from...
