Emeriti

Gerald Holton

Gerald Holton

Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics
Research Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

Gerald Holton obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists.
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Katharine Park

Katharine Park

Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

Katharine Park’s research and teaching focuses on the history of science and medicine in medieval and early modern Europe, with special attention to gender, sexuality, and the history of the body. ... Read more about Katharine Park

Charles E. Rosenberg

Charles E. Rosenberg

Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus
Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences

Charles E. Rosenberg has written widely on the history of medicine and science and is best known for his Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago, 1962, new edition, 1987); The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age (Chicago, 1968); No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1976, new and expanded edition, 1997); The Care of Strangers.

 

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Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin

Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

Steven Shapin joined Harvard in 2004 after previous appointments as Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh University.

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