Henry Guerlac papers, 1922-1981

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Henry Guerlac.

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Henry Edward Guerlac (1910-1982) graduated from Cornell University in 1932, received a master's degree in biochemistry from Cornell in 1933, and a doctorate in European history from Harvard University in 1941. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1946, he taught at Harvard and the University of Wisconsin, and for three years was the historian for the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1964, he was named Goldwin Smith Professor of the History of Sc...

Howard, Rio.

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Hahn, Roger, 1932-2011

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Roger Hahn was born in Paris, France on January 5, 1932. He became a U.S. citizen in 1953. He received a B.A. (1953) and an M.A.T. (1954) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1962. He joined the UC Berkeley history faculty in 1961. He died in New York City on May 30, 2011. From the description of Roger Hahn papers, 1954-2011. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 761399591 ...

History of science society

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Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930-1994

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Professor of History, University of California, Davis; author of Alchemical death and resurrection (1990) and The Janus faces of genius: the role of alchemy in Newton's thought (1991). From the description of Papers, 1965-1994. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 32173859 ...

Williams, L. Pearce (Leslie Pearce), 1927-

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History of science professor, Cornell University. Cornell Class of 1949, Ph.D. 1952. From the description of Williams Ampère collection, circa 1988-2005. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 646410904 History of science professor, Cornell University. Cornell Class of 1949, Ph.D. 1952. From the description of L. Pearce Williams papers, 1887-1970, 1963-1967 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCa...

Guerlac, Henry.

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Author. Born 1912; died 1985. From the description of Papers of Henry Guerlac, 1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77575497 Professor of History of Science, Cornell University. Henry Edward Guerlac (1910-1982) graduated from Cornell University in 1932, received a master's degree in biochemistry from Cornell in 1933, and a doctorate in European history from Harvard University in 1941. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1946, he taught at Harvard, ...

Woolf, Harry

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Ange de Saint-Joseph, 1636-1697

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Duveen, Denis I.

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Hall, Marie Boas, 1919-2009

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Kargon, Robert

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Cornell University

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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

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Astronomer and physicist. From the description of Letter signed (the concluding page only) : Florence, to an unidentified correspondent, 1612 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269597521 ...

King, W. J. (William Joseph), 1881-

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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

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English natural philosopher and mathematician. From the description of Receipt signed : London?, 1718 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612606 From the description of Autograph notes : [n.p.], ca. 1706?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611631 From the description of Document signed : London?, 1704 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612422 Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician. From the description of Notes on ancient history and ...

Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.

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Biographical NoteI. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was a historian of science, best known for his translation of Sir Isaac Newton&'s Principia Mathematica, published in 1972, the first English translation of the work since 1729. His interest in the history of computing manifested itself primarily in his work as an historical consultant to IBM.Cohen earned a BS in mathematics at Harvard University in 1937 and a PhD in the History of Science at Harvard in 1947. He was the first American to receive ...

Langer, William L. (William Leonard), 1896-1977

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William L. Langer was born in Boston in March 1896. His early education concentrated on foreign languages, but he studied history, in which he ultimately obtained his MA and Ph. D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty there in 1927, obtaining a reputation in the field of diplomatic history. In a leave status from Harvard, he served as Deputy Chief, then Chief, of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, and was appointed an assistant to the S...

Kubrin, David

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Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787

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Rudjer Josip Boskovic was a mathematian and natural philosopher. Croation by birth, he spent most of his life in Rome and Milan, but also lived briefly in Paris and London. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1730-1786]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466252 Italian mathematician and natural philosopher. From the description of Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84912805 ...

Vicious Circle Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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Yale University.

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Ithaca Festival (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 1743-1794

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French chemist and government administrator, considered the founder of modern chemistry. From the description of Géographie minéralogique de la France / [par] Lavoisier et Guettard, 177-? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123487897 From the description of Géographie minéralogique de la France / [par] Lavoisier et Guettard, 177-? (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938887 En 1775, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) fut nommé régisseur des poudr...

Sumner, James B. (James Batcheller), 1887-1955

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Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry at Cornell University. Sumner won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for the crystallizations of the enzyme urease. From the description of James B. Sumner reprint collection, 1910-1952. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64034451 Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry at Cornell University. Sumn...