Program in History of Science Alumni

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 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/ History of Science, 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, Wesleyan University
Richard Grandy	1968	On Formalist Philosophies on Math	P. Benacceraf	Professor of Philosophy, 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, (Toronto)
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, University of California, San Diego
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	Associate 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/History of Science, Princeton University
Elizabeth Fee	1978	Science and the 'Women Question' 1860-1920: A Study of English Scientific Periodicals	G. L. Geison	Associate 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	Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois - Chicago Circle
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	Working in business, Minneapolis, MN
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	Associate Professor, History Department, University of California, LA
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	Free-lance teacher/ scholar, Minneapolis, MN
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	Associate 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	Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University
Lisa Lloyd	1984	A Symmetric Approach to the Structure of Evolutionary Theory		Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
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	Assistant 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	Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY
James Fleming	1987	Meteorology in America, 1814 -1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons	C. C. Gillispie	Assistant Professor, 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	Assistant Professor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Antoni Malet	1989	Studies on James Gregorie1638-1675	C. C. Gillispie	Associate Professor, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Frederick Nebeker	1989	The Twentieth Century Transformation of Meterology	M. S. Mahoney	Assistant Professor, 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	Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Andrea Rusnock	1990	The Quantification of Things Human: Medicine and Political Arithmetic in Enlightenment England and France	G. L. Geison	Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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	Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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	Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, Bloomington
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	and Swindlers: Coal, Oil, and Scientific Consulting in the American Industrial Revolution, 1830-1870	C. C. Gillispie	Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute
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	Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Stuart McCook	1996	The Agricultural Awakening of Latin America: Science, Development, and Nature 1900-1930	G. L. Geison	Assistant 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, Arizona State University
Leo Slater	1997	Organic Synthesis and R.B. Woodward: An Historical Study in the Chemical Sciences	M.N. Wise	Program Manager, Historical Services, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Jordan Kellman	1997	Exploration, Discovery and Observation: French Maritime Science, 1695-1795	G.L. Geison	Visiting Assistant Professor, Louisiana State 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	Post-Doc, CHRST, La Villette, France
Minghie (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	Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

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