Records of the Office of the Departmental Chair

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Records of the Office of the Departmental Chair

1957-1993

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Records kept by departmental chairs: I. Bernard Cohen, John E. Murdoch, Everett Mendelsohn, Erwin N. Hiebert, Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, A.I. Sabra, Owen Gingerich, Peter Galison. Includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, departmental requirements, course listings and descriptions, student recommendations, news clippings, and records relating to projects with which the deparment was involved.

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Harvard University. Department of the History of Science

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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced a standing Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of Science in Learning in 1935. In 1966 it became the Department of History of Science....

Harvard University

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Murdoch, John Emery, 1927-2010

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Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann.

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A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1944) Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz was a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. From the description of Letter, 1990. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009770 Barbara Rosenkrantz started her teaching career at Harvard as a lecturer in the History of Science Department in 1971. Professor Rosenkrantz was chair of the History of Science Department at Harvard from 1984-1989, and continued to teach at Harvard unt...

Gingerich, Owen

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Hiebert, Erwin N., 1919-2012

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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 ...

Mendelsohn, Everett

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Galison, Peter, 1955-

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Sabra, A. I.

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