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| Name | Ph.D. Awarded | Dissertation Title | Supervisor | Current/Last Known Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Daniela Bleichmar
|
2004
|
Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century
Natural History: Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions
in The Spanish Atlantic |
A. Grafton
|
Mellon Post-Doc. Fellow in Early
Modern Visual Culture, Univ. of S. California
|
| Emily Brock | 2004 | Replanting and Restoring the Douglas Fir: Forest Science and Forest Practice in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1973 | A. Isenberg |
Stanford
University |
| James S. Turner | 2004 | The
Promise of Wilderness: A History of American Environmental
Politics, 1964-1994 |
A. Isenberg | Adjt.
Prof., Gettysburg College |
Jamie
Cohen-Cole |
2003 |
Thinking
about Thinking in Cold War America |
E.A.
Lunbeck |
Postdoc.
Fellow, History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago |
| Suman Seth | 2003 |
Principles and Problems: Constructions of Theoretical Physics in Imperial Germany, 1890--1918 | M.N Wise | Assistant
Professor, Cornell Unversity |
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| David Berol | 2000 | Living Materials and the
Structural
Ideal: The Development of the Protein Crystallography Community in the 20th Century. |
A. Creager | University of Virginia
Law School (pursuing a dgree) |
| 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.T. Grafton | Assistant 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 | Assistant Professor of
History and Philosophy, University of South Carolina |
| Otniel E. Dror | 1998 | Modernity and the Scientific Study of Emotions, 1880-1950 | G. L. Geison | Assistant 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 Paris, 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 | Assistant Professor,
Western Carolina University |
| Leo Slater | 1997 | Organic Synthesis and R.B. Woodward: An Historical Study in the Chemical Sciences | M.N. Wise | Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 University of Guelph |
| 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 |
| Theodore Arabatzis | 1995 | The Electron: A Biographical Sketch of a Theoretical Entity | M. N. Wise | Lecturer, 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 | Postdoctoral
Fellow, Dibner Institute, MIT |
| John Carson | 1993 | Talents, Intelligence, and the Construction of Human Difference in France and America, 1750-1920 | D. T. Rodgers | Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan |
| Richard Sorrenson | 1993 | Scientific Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London, 1720-1780 | M. S. Mahoney | Director of
Development, Auckland Grammar School, NZ |
| 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 | Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology |
| 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 of History, University of Rhode Island |
| Ann Blair | 1990 | Restaging Jean Bodin: The Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its Cultural Context | A. T. Grafton | Professor of
History Harvard University |
| David Kushner | 1990 | The Emergence of Geo-physics in Nineteenth Century Britain | G. L. Geison | Lawyer, San Francisco |
| 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 |
| 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 | IEEE History
Center Rutgers University |
| Antoni Malet | 1989 | Studies on James Gregorie, 1638-1675 | C. C. Gillispie | Associate Professor, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
| Erik Sageng | 1988 | Colin MacLaurin and the Foundations of the Method of Fluxions | M. S. Mahoney | Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Chikara Sasaki | 1988 | Descartes's Mathematical Thought | M. S. Mahoney | Professor of History of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| James Fleming | 1988 | Meteorology in America, 1814 -1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of STS, Colby College, Maine |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lisa Lloyd | 1984 | A Symmetric Approach to the Structure of Evolutionary Theory | Professor,
Department
of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Lecturer in History of Science, University of Cambridge |
| 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 |
| 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 | Associate 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 of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC 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, History Dept., University of California |
| 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 |
| Norton Wise | 1977 | The Flow Analogy to Electricity and Magnetism: Kelvin and Maxwell | T. S. Kuhn | Professor of
History 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 of History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales (Australia) |
| Evan Melhado | 1977 | Jac. Berzeluis: Foundations and Development of his Chemistry | T. S. Kuhn | Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois |
| 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 |
| 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 of Philosophy, 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 of History of Science, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Michael Gross | 1975 | Function and Structure in19th 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 | Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina (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 of
Philosophy, 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 | Associate
Professor of
History, Baruch College, City University of New York |
| R. Steven Turner | 1973 | The Prussian Universities and the Research Imperative, 1806-1848 | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of
History, 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 of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh |
| 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 |
| Jagdish Hattiangadi | 1970 | Notes on the Theory of Rationality | C. G. Hempel | Associate
Professor of
Philosophy, 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 of
Humanities, Stevens Insititute of Technology |
| Arthur Donovan | 1970 | The Origins of Pneumatic Chemistry | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of
History
of Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech. |
| Thomas Nickles | 1969 | The Structure and Interrelationship of Physical Theories | C. G. Hempel | Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada - Reno |
| 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 |
| Lewis Creary | 1969 | The Pragmatic Justification of Induction: A Critical Examination | C. G. Hempel | Professor of
Philosophy, Case Western Reserve |
| Richard Grandy | 1968 | On Formalist Philosophies of Mathematics | P. Benacceraf | Professor of Philosophy
& Cognitive
Science, Rice University |
| C. Stewart Gillmor | 1968 | Charles Augustin Coulomb: Physics and Engineering in18th-Century France | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of History and Science, 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 of History and
Preventive
Medicine, University of Rochester |
| Robert Sillman | 1967 | Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) and the Establishment of the Wave Theory of Light | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of
History, 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 | Professor of
History, Princeton University |
| Boruch Brody | 1967 | The Rise of the Algebra of Logic | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of
Philosophy, 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 of History, Duke University |
| 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 |
| Michael McVaugh | 1965 | The Medieval Theory of Compound Medicines | C. C. Gillispie | Professor of
History, University of North Carolina |