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53 results for "History of Physical Sciences"

53 results for "History of Physical Sciences"

Erin Alexa Freedman

Person

Research Interests: History of biology; philosophy of science; history of technology & Industry; history of art, craft, and design; models & modeling practices; material culture; textiles.

Erin Alexa Freedman is a PhD candidate in the History of Science...

Science in Culture

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Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold...

Our Approach

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The Department of the History of Science is a historic name that we value--but its remit has grown extensively since the 1930s when the department was established at Harvard University. First, the department has greatly widened the scope of the topics we...

A.I. Sabra

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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...

Matthew Hersch

Person

Areas of Research: History of Physical Sciences, Human Sciences, Material Culture, Media Studies, Science Policy, Museum Studies, Psychology and Theories of Mind, Science and Religion, STS, Technology and Society, Women and Gender Studies

Matthew Hersch is...

Christopher Stubbs: Generative AI and the Future of Science

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Christopher Stubbs begins discussion of this month's faculty seminar on Knowledge Production and the University in the Age of AI. His talk is titled "Generative AI and the future of science: an impending collision or grand opportunity?" Faculty and...

Connemara Doran Swayngim

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Connemara Doran, PhD, is the Historian of Science at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

Brad Bolman

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Brad Bolman is Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Tulane University. He graduated from the Department of the History of Science in 2021.

His first book, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (Chicago, 2025), traces the...

Naomi Oreskes

Person

Primary Areas of Research: Agnotology; the Political Economy of Scientific Knowledge; History and Philosophy of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science and Technology Studies (STS); the History of Climate Change Disinformation

Secondary Areas of Interest...