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Name		Ph.D. Awarded	Dissertation Title	Supervisor	Current/Last Known Position
Melinda Baldin		2010	“NATURE and the Making of a Scientific Community, 1869-1939”	Michael Gordin	Postdoctoral fellow, York University, Canada
Daniel Bouk		2009	“The Science of Difference:Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830-1930”	Daniel Rodgers	Assistant Professor, Colgate University
Renée Raphael		2009	“Galileo as a Commentator on Aristotle?: The Reception of Galileo in the Jesuit Collegio Romano, 1633-1700”	Anthony Grafton	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
Alistair Sponsel		2009	"Coral reef formation and the sciences of earth, life, and sea, c. 1770 to 1952"	D. G. Burnett & A. Creager	Darwin Correspondence Project
Jeris Stueland Yruma		2008	"How Experiments are Remembered: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission: 1938-1968"	M. Gordin	Consultant (Associate), McKinsey & Company
Jakub Novák		2008	"Alfred Russel Wallace's and August Weismann's Evolution: A Story Written on Butterfly Wings"	A. Creager	Educational Testing Service
Doogab Yi		2008	"The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Biotechnology at Stanford, 1959-1980"	A. Creager	Postdoctoral Fellowship: DeWitt Stetten, Jr., National Health Institutes
Rebecca Press Schwartz		2008	The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Henry DeWolf Smyth and the Historiography of the Manhattan Project	M. Norton Wise	Assistant Principal, SAR High School, Riverside
Nicholas Popper		2007	Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance	A. Grafton	Assistant Professor, The College of William and Mary
John P. DiMoia		2007	Hanmi Hyopcho (Korean-American Cooperation) and the Origins of South Korean State Science (1945-1975)	B. Elman/ E. Lunbeck	Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Tania Munz		2007	Of Birds and Bees: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and the Science of Animals, 1908 - 1973	A. Creager	Postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern University
James Byrne		2007	The Stars, the Moon, and the Shadowed Earth: Viennese Astronomy in the Fifteenth Century	M. S. Mahoney	Lecturer, Princeton University Writing Program
Catherine Nisbett		2007	Business Practice: the Rise of American Astrophysics, 1859-1919	M. Gordin	Hyde Park Group
Joe Conley		2006	Environmentalism Contained: a History of Corporate Responses to the New Environmentalism	D. T. Rodgers	Attorney (Associate), Susan Godfrey LLP
Ole Molvig		2006	Cosmological Revolutions: Relativity, Astronomy, and the Shaping of a Modern Universe	M. N. Wise	Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Jane Murphy		2006	Improving the Mind and Delighting the Spirit: Jabarti and the Sciences in Eighteenth-century Ottoman Cairo	M. S. Mahoney	Assistant Professor, Colorado College
Carla Nappi		2006	The Monkey of the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China	S. Naquin	Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Joseph November		2006	Digitizing Life: the Introduction of Computers to Biology and Medicine	M. S. Mahoney	Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Matthew Wisnioski		2005	Engineers and the Intellectual Crisis of Technology, 1957-1973	M. S. Mahoney	Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Daniela Bleichmar		2004	Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Natural History: Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions in The Spanish Atlantic	A. Grafton	Assistant Professor, Univ. of Southern California
Emily K. Brock		2004	Replanting and Restoring the Douglas Fir: Forest Science and Forest Practice in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1973	A. Isenberg	Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
James M. Turner		2004	The Promise of Wilderness: A History of American Environmental Politics, 1964-1994	A. Isenberg	Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
Jamie Cohen-Cole		2003	Thinking about Thinking in Cold War America	E.A. Lunbeck	Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Suman Seth		2003	Principles and Problems: Constructions of Theoretical Physics in Imperial Germany, 1890-1918	M.N Wise	Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Marwa Elshakry		2003	Darwin's Legacy in the Arab East: Science, Religion and Politics, 1870-1914	R.L. Tignor	Associate Professor, Columbia University
David Berol		2000	Living Materials and the Structural Ideal: The Development of the Protein Crystallography Community in the 20th Century	A. Creager	Attorney, Environmental Protection Agency
David Attis		2000	The Ascendancy of Mathematics: Mathematics, Politics, and Education at Trinity College Dublin, 1790-1916	M.N. Wise	Sr. Business Analyst A.T. Kearney
Eric Ash		2000	"The skylfullest men": Patronage, Authority, and the Negotiation of Expertise in Elizabethan England	A. Grafton	Associate Professor Wayne State University
Ann Johnson		2000	Engineering Culture and the Production of Proprietary Knowledge: An Intellectual History of Anti-lock Braking Systems, 1958-1978	M.S. Mahoney	Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
Otniel E. Dror		1998	Modernity and the Scientific Study of Emotions, 1880-1950	G. L. Geison	Associate Professor Hebrew University
Mingjie (Michael) Hu		1998	Merging Chinese and Western Mathematics: The Introduction of Algebra and the Calculus in China, 1859-1903	M.S. Mahoney	Information Systems, Polygram Records, NY
David Aubin		1997	A Cultural History of Catastrophes and Chaos: Around the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques	M.N. Wise	Professor, University of Pierre and Marie Curie (France)
Ross Bassett		1997	New Technology, New People, New Organizations: The Rise of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1975	M.S. Mahoney	Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Jordan Kellman		1997	Exploration, Discovery and Observation: French Maritime Science, 1695-1795	G.L. Geison	Associate Professor; Associate Dean (College of Liberal Arts), University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Leo Slater		1997	Organic Synthesis and R.B. Woodward: An Historical Study in the Chemical Sciences	M.N. Wise	Historian, Naval Research Laboratory
James Strick		1996	The British Spontaneous Generation Debates of 1860-1880: Medicine, Evolution, and Laboratory Science in the Victorian Context	G. L. Geison	Associate Professor, Franklin & Marshall College
Gabriel Finkelstein		1996	Emil du Bois-Reymond: The Making of a Liberal German Scientist (1818-1851)	G. L. Geison	Professor,University of Colorado, Denver
George Sweetnam		1996	The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum	M. N. Wise	Deceased 1997
Stuart McCook		1996	The Agricultural Awakening of Latin America: Science, Development, and Nature 1900-1930	G. L. Geison	Associate Professor; Associate Dean (College of Arts), University of Guelph
Andrew J. Mendelsohn		1996	Cultures of Bacteriology: Formation and Transformation of a Science in France and Germany, 1870-1914	G. L. Geison	Senior Lecturer in History of Science and Medicine, Imperial College London
Theodore Arabatzis		1995	The Electron: A Biographical Sketch of a Theoretical Entity	M. N. Wise	Associate Professor, University of Athens (Greece)
Paul Lucier		1994	Scientists and Swindlers: Coal, Oil, and Scientific Consulting in the American Industrial Revolution, 1830-1870	C. C. Gillispie	Independent Scholar
John Carson		1993	Talents, Intelligence, and the Construction of Human Difference in France and America, 1750-1920	D. T. Rodgers	Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Richard Sorrenson		1993	Scientific Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780	M. S. Mahoney	Advancement Manager, External Relations, University of Auckland
Anne Larsen		1993	Not Since Noah: The English Scientific Zoologists and the Craft of Collecting, 1800-1840	G. L. Geison	Affiliated Position Smithsonian Institution
Giovanna Cifoletti		1992	Mathematics and Rhetoric: Peletier and Gosselin and the Making of the French Algebraic Tradition	A. Grafton	Centre Alexandre Koyré EHEES, Paris
Emily Thompson		1992	'Mysteries of the Acoustic': Architectural Acoustics in America, 1800-1932	C.C. Gillispie	Professor, Princeton University
Ken Arnold		1991	Cabinets for the Curious: Practicing Science in Early Modern English Museums	M. S. Mahoney	Curator, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Andrea Rusnock		1990	The Quantification of Things Human: Medicine and Political Arithmetic in Enlightenment England and France	G. L. Geison	Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island
Ann Blair		1990	Restaging Jean Bodin: The Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its Cultural Context	A. T. Grafton	Professor, Harvard University
David Kushner		1990	The Emergence of Geo-physics in Nineteenth Century Britain	G. L. Geison	Lawyer
Ronald Doel		1989	Unpacking a Myth: Interdisciplinary Research and the Growth of Solar System Astronomy, 1920-1958	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Wu Yi Yi		1989	Auspicious Omens and Their Consequences	C. C. Gillispie	New York City Board of Education
Frederick Nebeker		1989	The Twentieth Century Transformation of Meterology	M. S. Mahoney	Senior Research Historian, IEEE History Center, Rutgers University
Antoni Malet		1989	Studies on James Gregorie, 1638-1675	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
Erik Sageng		1988	Colin MacLaurin and the Foundations of the Method of Fluxions	M. S. Mahoney	Professor, St. John's College (Maryland)
Chikara Sasaki		1988	Descartes's Mathematical Thought	M. S. Mahoney	Professor, University of Tokyo (Japan)
James Fleming		1988	Meteorology in America, 1814 -1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Colby College
Mark Walker		1987	Uranium Machines, Nuclear, Explosives and National Socialism: The German Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1958	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Union College
Thomas Broman	1987		The Transformation of Academic Medicine in Germany, 1780-1820	G. L. Geison	Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lawrence Owens	1986		Straight-Thinking: Vannevar Bush and the Culture of American Engineering	M. S. Mahoney	Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Elisabeth Lloyd	1984		A Symmetric Approach to the Structure of Evolutionary Theory		Professor, Indiana University
Monica Green	1984		The Transmission of Ancient Theories of Female Physiology and Disease Through the Early Middle Ages	G. L. Geison	Professor, Arizona State University
Peter Dear	1984		Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools: Continuity and Transformation in the Scientific Revolution	M. S. Mahoney	Professor, Cornell University
Joseph Marchese	1983		Government and Energy: The Demonstration Program for Synthetic Liquid Fuels, 1944-1955	J. W. Servos	Department of Naval Research, Washington, DC
Geoffrey Sutton	1982		A Science for a Polite Society: Cartesian Natural Philosophy in Paris During the Reigns of Louis XIII and XIV	M. S. Mahoney	Co-Principal Sutton Consulting, Inc.
James Secord	1981		Cambria/Siluria: The Anatomy of a Victorian Geological Debate	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of Cambridge (UK)
Theodore Porter	1981		The Calculus of Liberalism: The Development of Statistical Thinking in the Social and Natural Sciences of the Nineteenth Century	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Vice Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, UC Los Angeles
JoAnn Morse	1981		The Reception of Diophantus' Arithmetic in the Renaissance	M. S. Mahoney	Co-Principal Sutton Consulting, Inc.
Robert Root - Bernstein	1981		The Ionists: Founding Physical Chemistry 1872-1890	J. W. Servos	Professor, Michigan State University
Yung Sik Kim	1980		The World-View of Chu Hsi (1130-1200): Knowledge about the Natural World in Chu-Tzu Ch'usn-shu	C. C. Gillispie	Associate Professor, University of Seoul (Korea)
David Allison	1980		The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Mission - Oriented Research and Development	C. C. Gillispie	Curator, Division of Computers, Information & Society, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Penelope Maddy	1979		Set Theoretic Realism	J. Burgess	Professor, University of California - Irvine
David Fair	1978		Representation Relative Abstract Object Idealism: A Theory of Metaphysics with Applications to Mathematics, Fiction, and Universals	D. K. Lewis	Unknown
Bruce Wheaton	1978		On the Nature of X and Gamma Rays. Attitudes Toward Localization of Energy in the 'New Radiations'	T. S. Kuhn	Adjunct Lecturer, University of California
Christine Elizabeth Fee	1978		Science and the 'Women Question' 1860-1920: A Study of English Scientific Periodicals	G. L. Geison	Chief, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
M. Norton Wise	1977		The Flow Analogy to Electricity and Magnetism: Kelvin and Maxwell	T. S. Kuhn	Professor, UC Los Angeles
Daniel Serwer	1977		The Rise of Radiation Protection: Science, Medicine and Technology in Society, 1896-1935	T. S. Kuhn	Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC
John Schuster	1977		Descartes and the Scientific Revolution: 1618-1634, an Interpretation	M. S. Mahoney	Professor, University of New South Wales (Australia); Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sidney (Australia)
Evan Melhado	1977		Jac. Berzeluis: Foundations and Development of his Chemistry	T. S. Kuhn	Professor, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, University of Illinois
John Lesch	1977		The Origins of Experimental Physiology and Pharmacology in France, 1790-1820; Bichat and Magendie	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Ian Langham	1976		The Maturing of Social Anthropology at Cambridge: W.J.R. Rivers and His Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931	G. L. Geison	Deceased 1983
Glenn Kessler	1976		Numbers, Truth and Knowledge	P. Benacerraf	Professor, University of Virginia
Toby Appel	1976		The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate and the Structure of 19th Century French Zoology	G. L. Geison	Librarian, Yale Medical School
James McClellan	1975		The International Organization of Science and Learned Societies in the 18th Century	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Dean (College of Arts), Stevens Institute of Technology
Michael Gross	1975		Function and Structure in 19th Century French Physiology	G. L. Geison	Unknown
Ken Caneva	1975		Conceptual and Generational Change in German Physics: The Case of Electricity, 1800-1846	T. S. Kuhn	Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tadashi Yoshida	1974		The Rangaku of Shizuki Tadao: The Introduction of Western Science in Tokugawa Japan	M. Jansen	Professor, Tohoku University (Japan)
Russel Trenholme	1974				Unknown
Kenneth Levin	1974		Sigmund Freud's Early Studies of the Neuroses, 1886-1905	G. L. Geison	Psychiatrist, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
Philip Kitcher	1974		Mathematics and Certainty	P. Benacerraf & M.S. Mahoney	Professor, Columbia University
Bert Hansen	1974		Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature. A Critical Edition of his Quodlibeta with English Translation and Commentary	M. Clagett	Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
R. Steven Turner	1973		The Prussian Universities and the Research Imperative, 1806-1848	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Eugene Frankel	1972		Jean Baptiste Biot: The Career of a Physicist in Nineteenth-Century France	C. C. Gillispie	Deceased 1986
John Earman	1972		Some Aspects of Temporal Asymmetry	C. G. Hempel	Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Arthur Quinn	1970		Evaporation and Repulsion: A Study of English Corpuscular Philosophy from Newton to Franklin	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Jagdish Hattiangadi	1970		Notes on the Theory of Rationality	C. G. Hempel	Professor, York University
Harold Dorn	1970		The Art of Building and the Science of Mechanics: A Study of the Union of Theory and Practice in the Early History of Structural Analysis in England	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Stevens Insititute of Technology
Arthur Donovan	1970		The Origins of Pneumatic Chemistry	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Virginia Tech
Thomas Nickles	1969		The Structure and Interrelationship of Physical Theories	C. G. Hempel	Professor, University of Nevada - Reno
Sigalia Dostrovsky	1969		The Origins of Vibration Theory: The Scientific Revolution and the Nature of Music	C. C. Gillispie	Unknown
Lewis Creary	1969		The Pragmatic Justification of Induction: A Critical Examination	C. G. Hempel	Professor, Case Western Reserve
Richard Grandy	1968		On Formalist Philosophies of Mathematics	P. Benacceraf	Professor, Rice University
C. Stewart Gillmor	1968		Charles Augustin Coulomb: Physics and Engineering in18th-Century France	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Wesleyan University
Theodore Brown	1968		The Mechanical Philosophy and the Animal Oeconomy: A Study in the Development of English Physiology in the 17th and Early 18th Century	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of Rochester
Robert Sillman	1967		Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) and the Establishment of the Wave Theory of Light	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Emory University
Michael S. Mahoney	1967		The Royal Road: The Development of Algebraic Analysis from 1550-1650, with Special Reference to the Work of Pierre de Fermat	T. S. Kuhn	Deceased Professor, Princeton University
Baruch Brody	1967		The Rise of the Algebra of Logic	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Rice University
Seymour Mauskopf	1966		Molecular Structure and Composition: The Interaction of Crystallography, Chemistry and Optics in the Early Nineteenth Century	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, Duke University
Larry Laudan	1966		The Idea of a Physical Theory from Galileo to Newton: Studies in17th-Century Methodology	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Michael McVaugh	1965		The Medieval Theory of Compound Medicines	C. C. Gillispie	Professor, University of North Carolina