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Name Ph.D. Awarded Dissertation Title Supervisor  Current/Last Known Position 
Michael McVaugh 1965 The Medieval Theory of Compound Medicines C. C. Gillispie Professor of History, 
University of North Carolina
Larry Laudan 1966 The Idea of a Physical Theory from Galileo to Newton: Studies in17th-Century Methodology C. C. Gillispie Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Seymour Mauskopf 1966 Molecular Structure and Composition: The Interaction of Crystallography, Chemistry and Optics in the Early Nineteenth Century C. C. Gillispie Professor of History, Duke University
Boruch Brody 1967 The Rise of the Algebra of Logic C. C. Gillispie Professor of Philosophy, 
Rice 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 Professor of History, 
Princeton University
Robert Sillman 1967 Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) and the Establishment of the Wave Theory of Light C. C. Gillispie Professor of History, 
Emory 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 of History and Preventive Medicine, 
University of Rochester
Stewart Gillmor 1968 Charles Augustin Coulomb: Physics and Engineering in18th-Century France C. C. Gillispie Professor of History and Science,  Wesleyan University
Richard Grandy 1968 On Formalist Philosophies of Mathematics P. Benacceraf Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science,
Rice University
Lewis Creary 1969 The Pragmatic Justification of Induction: A Critical Examination C. G. Hempel Professor of Philosophy, 
Case Western Reserve
Sigalia Dostrovsky 1969 The Origins of Vibration Theory: The Scientific Revolution and the Nature of Music C. C. Gillispie P.O. Box 452, Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Thomas Nickles 1969 The Structure and Interrelationship of Physical Theories C. G. Hempel Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada - Reno
Arthur Donovan 1970 The Origins of Pneumatic Chemistry C. C. Gillispie Professor of History of Science and Technology Studies, 
Virginia Tech. 
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 of Humanities, 
Stevens Insititute of Technology
Jagdish Hattiangadi 1970 Notes on the Theory of Rationality C. G. Hempel Associate Professor of Philosophy, 
York University
Arthur Quinn 1970 Evaporation and Repulsion: 
A Study of English Corpuscular Philosophy from Newton to Franklin		 C. C. Gillispie Professor of Rhetoric, 
University of California, Berkeley
John Earman 1972 Some Aspects of Temporal Asymmetry C. G. Hempel Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Eugene Frankel 1972 Jean Baptiste Biot: The Career of a Physicist in Nineteenth-Century France C. C. Gillispie Deceased 1986
R. Steven Turner 1973 The Prussian Universities and the Research Imperative, 1806-1848 C. C. Gillispie Professor of History, 
University of New Brunswick, Canada
Bert Hansen 1974 Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature. A Critical Edition of his Quodlibeta with English Translation and Commentary M. Clagett Associate Professor of History, Baruch College, 
City University of New York
Philip Kitcher 1974 Mathematics and Certainty P. Benacerraf & M.S. Mahoney Professor of Philosophy, 
Columbia University
Kenneth Levin 1974 Sigmund Freud's Early Studies of the Neuroses, 1886-1905 G. L. Geison Psychiatrist, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston 
Russel Trenholme 1974     Unknown
Tadashi Yoshida 1974 The Rangaku of Shizuki Tadao: The Introduction of Western Science in Tokugawa Japan M. Jansen Professor, Tohoku of University (Japan) 
Ken Caneva 1975 Conceptual and Generational Change in German Physics: The Case of Electricity, 1800-1846 T. S. Kuhn Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina (Greensboro) 
Michael Gross 1975 Function and Structure in19th Century French Physiology G. L. Geison Unknown
James McClellan 1975 The International Organization of Science and Learned Societies in the 18th Century C. C. Gillispie Professor of History of Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
Toby Appel 1976 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate and the Structure of 19th Century French Zoology G. L. Geison Librarian, Yale Medical School
Glenn Kessler 1976 Numbers, Truth and Knowledge P. Benacerraf Professor of Philosophy, Virginia
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
John Lesch 1977 The Origins of Experimental Physiology and Pharmacology in France, 1790-1820; Bichat and Magendie C. C. Gillispie Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Evan Melhado 1977 Jac. Berzeluis: Foundations and Development of his Chemistry T. S. Kuhn Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois
John Schuster 1977 Descartes and the Scientific Revolution: 1618-1634, an Interpretation M. S. Mahoney Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Wollongong, (Australia) 
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 
Norton Wise 1977 The Flow Analogy to Electricity and Magnetism: Kelvin and Maxwell T. S. Kuhn Professor of History
UC Los Angeles
Elizabeth Fee 1978 Science and the 'Women Question' 1860-1920: A Study of English Scientific Periodicals G. L. Geison  Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health
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, History Dept., University of California
David Fair 1978 Representation Relative Abstract Object Idealism: A Theory of Metaphysics with Applications to Mathematics, Fiction, and Universals D. K. Lewis Unknown
Penelope Maddy 1979 Set Theoretic Realism J. Burgess Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC  Irvine
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 Institute
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) 
Robert Root - Bernstein 1981 The Ionists: Founding Physical Chemistry 1872-1890 J. W. Servos Associate Professor, Michigan State University
JoAnn Morse 1981 The Reception of Diophantus' Arithmetic in the Renaissance M. S. Mahoney Co-Principal
Sutton Consulting, Inc.
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 of History 
UC Los Angeles
James Secord 1981 Cambria/Siluria: The Anatomy of a Victorian Geological Debate C. C. Gillispie Lecturer in History of Science, University of Cambridge
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.
Joseph Marchese 1983 Government and Energy: The Demonstration Program for Synthetic Liquid Fuels, 1944-1955 J. W. Servos Department of Naval Research, Washington, DC
Peter Dear 1984 Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools: Continuity and Transformation in the Scientific Revolution M. S. Mahoney Professor of History
 Cornell University
Monica Green 1984 The Transmission of Ancient Theories of Female Physiology and Disease Through the Early Middle Ages G. L. Geison Professor of History
Arizona State University
Lisa Lloyd 1984 A Symmetric Approach to the Structure of Evolutionary Theory   Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University
Lawrence Owens 1986 Straight-Thinking: Vannevar Bush and the Culture of American Engineering M. S. Mahoney Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thomas Broman 1987 The Transformation of Academic Medicine in Germany, 1780-1820 G. L. Geison Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mark Walker 1987 Uranium Machines, Nuclear, Explosives and National Socialism: The German Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1958 C. C. Gillispie Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY
James Fleming 1988 Meteorology in America, 1814 -1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons C. C. Gillispie Professor of STS, Colby College, Maine
Chikara Sasaki 1988 Descartes's Mathematical Thought M. S. Mahoney Professor of History of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erik Sageng 1988 Colin MacLaurin and the Foundations of the Method of Fluxions M. S. Mahoney Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Antoni Malet 1989 Studies on James Gregorie, 1638-1675 C. C. Gillispie Associate Professor, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Frederick Nebeker 1989 The Twentieth Century Transformation of Meterology M. S. Mahoney IEEE History Center
Rutgers University
Wu Yi Yi 1989 Auspicious Omens and Their Consequences C. C. Gillispie New York City Board of Education
Ronald Doel 1989 Unpacking a Myth: Interdisciplinary Research and the Growth of Solar System Astronomy, 1920-1958 C. C. Gillispie Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis
David Kushner 1990 The Emergence of Geo-physics in Nineteenth Century Britain G. L. Geison Lawyer, San Francisco
Ann Blair 1990 Restaging Jean Bodin: The Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its Cultural Context A. T. Grafton Associate Professor of History
Harvard University
Andrea Rusnock 1990 The Quantification of Things Human: Medicine and Political Arithmetic in Enlightenment England and France G. L. Geison Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
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
Emily Thompson 1992 'Mysteries of the Acoustic': Architectural Acoustics in America, 1800-1932 C.C. Gillispie Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Giovanna Cifoletti 1992 Mathematics and Rhetoric: 
Peletier and Gosselin and the Making of the French Algebraic Tradition		 A. Grafton Centre Alexandre Koyré EHEES, Paris
Anne Larsen 1993 Not Since Noah: The English Scientific Zoologists and the Craft of Collecting, 1800-1840 G. L. Geison Affiliated Position Smithsonian Institution
Richard Sorrenson 1993 Scientific Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780 M. S. Mahoney Director of Development,
Auckland Grammar School, NZ
John Carson 1993 Talents, Intelligence, and the Construction of Human Difference in France and America, 1750-1920 D. T. Rodgers Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan
Paul Lucier 1994 Scientists and Swindlers: Coal, Oil, and Scientific Consulting in the American Industrial Revolution, 1830-1870 C. C. Gillispie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dibner Institute, MIT
Theodore Arabatzis 1995 The Electron: A Biographical Sketch of a Theoretical Entity M. N. Wise Lecturer, University of Athens, Greece
Andrew Mendelsohn 1996 Cultures of Bacteriology: Formation and Transformation of a Science in France and Germany, 1870-1914 G. L. Geison Lecturer in History of Science and Medicine, Imperial College London
Stuart McCook 1996 The Agricultural Awakening of Latin America: Science, Development, and Nature 1900-1930 G. L. Geison Associate Professor of History, The College of New Jersey
George Sweetnam 1996 The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum  M. N. Wise Deceased 1997
Gabriel Finkelstein 1996 Emil du Bois-Reymond: The Making of a Liberal German Scientist (1818-1851)  G. L. Geison Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
James Strick 1996 The British Spontaneous Generation Debates of 1860-1880: Medicine, Evolution, and Laboratory Science in the Victorian Context G. L. Geison Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College 
Leo Slater 1997 Organic Synthesis and R.B. Woodward: An Historical Study in the Chemical Sciences M.N. Wise Postdoctoral Fellow, 
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Jordan Kellman 1997 Exploration, Discovery and Observation: French Maritime Science, 1695-1795 G.L. Geison  Assistant Professor,
Western Carolina University
Ross Bassett 1997 New Technology, New People, New Organizations: The Rise of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1975 M.S. Mahoney Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
David Aubin 1997 A Cultural History of Catastrophes and Chaos: Around the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques M.N. Wise Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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
Otniel E. Dror 1998 Modernity and the Scientific Study of Emotions, 1880-1950 G. L. Geison Assistant Professor
Hebrew 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 Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University
Eric Ash 2000 "The skylfullest men": Patronage, Authority, and the Negotiation of Expertise in Elizabethan England A.T. Grafton Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
David Attis 2000 The Ascendancy of Mathematics: Mathematics, Politics, and Education at Trinity College Dublin, 1790-1916 M.N. Wise Management Consultant
David Berol 2000 Living Materials and the Structural Ideal: The Development of the Protein Crystallography Community
in the 20th Century.		 A. Creager  Environmental Writer
Eastern Research Group