0739-4934 Newsletter HISTORY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2 April 2007 SOCIE1Y Isis Three Years In: J\ Progress Report t has been three years since the Isis office moved to York University. I am now a and by the scholar who has taken the lead in organizing the Focus section. Partici Ilittle over halfway through my term as edito[ Since~ ~lromrow to Toronto, pants are also carefully chosen and I would say that the quality of the pieces has been we have received and p~ about 310 manru;crtpts, about 100 per year Since the quite high. I also wanted to point out that the space given to Focus pieces in Isis has March 2004 issue was published, 32 articles have appeared in the pages of lsi\', 10 Fo really rome from the book review section. We continue to publish the same number cus sections (containing 38 articles), and 845 books reviews (including essay reviews). of articles. In 1CJ)7, my pmltretsor decided to reduce the number of articles in Isf.f Many of the goals we set for ourselves have been accomplished. The operation of the from four to three in order to expand the book review section. When I was selected as office at York is running smoothly. The journal is now back on schedule, though it is a the new edito~; the Committee on Publications was roncemed about the growing size ronstant struggle to keep it there. The Focus sections, OO.ignffi to attract readers in all of the book review section and slrongly rerommended that I reduce it without cutting areas of the field, seem to have been favorably received. reviews of the important books in the field that readers expect to see. We did reduce the let me say a little more about the Focus sections and how they are a-eatfrl. The overall proportional size of the book review section, and in its place have offered one basic idea for each of them has rome about in various ways. In m
Meeting Perplexities Postal Address Physical Address By Jay Malone, Executive Director PO Box 11736o 3310 Thrlington Hall University of Florida University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7360 Gainesville, FL 32611 'VJhen making arrangements for our annual meeting, I con W sider myriad issues. Many details are minor, but even minor Phone:352-392-1677 points can become controversial. For example, when scouting sites Fax: 352-392-2795 in Washington DC, I visited three hotels in the suburb of Crys E-mail: [email protected] tal City and one hotel in downtown Washington. I considered all Web site: http:/lwww.hssonline.org/ of these properties "Washington locations" and so when the HSS Council confirmed that our meeting would be held in the Mar Subscription Inquiries: ISIS, OSIRIS, and HSS Newsletter riott Crystal Gateway in Crystal City, I blithely announced that our Please contact the University of Chicago Press directly, at: 2007 meeting would be in Washington. But graduate students in [email protected]; 877-705-18781877-705-1879 the Executive Office took vocal exception to this. "Crystal City is (phone/fax), toll free for U.S. and Canada. not Washington," they told me. "The meeting is in Crystal City." Or write University of Chicago Press, Subscription I briefly considered announcing this but then remembered that I Fulfillment Manager, PO Box 37005, Chicago, IL had no idea where Crystal City was before I visited the hotels- tell 60637-7363. ing people that we would be meeting there would invite confusion. Crystal City is part of Arlington, Virginia, a better-known place, but when I asked an international member about using that name, Moving? her face paled and she said it brought up images of cemeteries. That would not do, so to placate the literalists in the office and still Please notify both the HSS Executive Office and the give members a better-than-vague idea of where the meeting will University of Chicago Press at the above addresses. be held, we settled on "Washington Metro Area" as the location of ~ the 2007 meeting. Welcome to my world. The Marriott Crystal Gateway, not to be confused with the Marriott Crystal City (another not-so-minor detail) is five minutes HSS Newsletter from Reagan National Airport and sits atop a metrorail station three stops from the National Mall. Attendees will be able to enjoy Editorial Policies, Advertising, and Submissions all of what the U.S. capitol has to offer. Why are we meeting in Crystal City and not in Washington? The History of Science Society Newsletter is published in January, April, July, The answer is cost. Downtown hotels are significantly more ex and October, and sent to all individual members of the Society; those who reside pensive than those in the suburbs. Our recent meeting survey indi outside of North America pay an additional $5 annually to cover a portion of cated that nearly half of attendees (47%) do not want to pay more airmail charges. The Newsletter is available to nonmembers and institutions than $150US for hotel rooms, even if we are meeting in a major for $25 a year. city. Since we are in the midst of a sellers' market, staying below The Newsletter is edited and desktop published in the Executive Office on an Apple that amount is difficult. Dates, too, can make a difference in rates. system using Microsoft Word and InDesign. The format and editorial policies are We are meeting later than usual in downtown Phoenix, Arizona determined by the Executive Director in consultation with the Committee on Pub in 2009 (Nov 18-22) because the room rates are much cheaper lications and the Society Editor. All advertising copy must be submitted in elec than the first weekend of November. With flexibility in dates and tronic form. Advertisements are accepted on a space-available basis only, and the locations, we will seek the best prices for our meetings and our Society reserves the right not to print a submission. The rates are as follows: Full members. page (9 x 7.5''), $400; Horizontal or Vertical Half page (4.5 x 7.5''), $220; Quarter page (3 x 5"), $110. The deadline for insertion orders and camera-ready copy i'i six \Weks prior to the month of publicatioo (e.g., 20 NoMnber for the january Newsletter: and • be · tbe HSS ~ Reminder: The Isis Bibliography from 1975 to the present i'i avail aboie~ able online with OCLC. Members of the Society may accfS'i the HNory of ~ Science and Thcbnology Database (HSI') through the HSS hoinepa&e at http://h$online.org. RLG has assigned us "Y6.Gl9" as a "User 'arne" and "HSSDEMO" as a "Passwonl."
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2 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociETY NEWSLErnR i\J>RJL 2007 2007 ELECTION NOMINEES
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Paul Lawrence Farber, OSU Distinguished James Bartholomew, Professor, Department Professor of History of Science and Chair, Depart of History, The Ohio State University, Colum ment of History, Oregon State University, Corvallis, bus, OH. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972. HSS OR. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970. HSS and and Professional Activities: Member of Professional Activities: HSS Council, 1978- ISIS Editorial Board, 1988-91; Senior Editorial 80, 1995-97; Committee on Undergraduate Educa Board and contributor, Oxford Companion tion, 1976; Commit!fe on Programs and Meetings, to the History ofModern Science, 1997-2003. 1986-89; Co-Program Chair for Annual Meeting, Awards: Pfizer Award of the HSS, 1992; Hiromi 1993; Chair, Committee on Independent Scholars, Arisawa Award of the American Association of 1993-95; Committee on Research and the Profes University Presses, 1990; Fellow of the American sion, 1993-95; Nomination Committee, 1995-97; Dibner Lecturer, 1996-97; Association for the Advancement of Science, 2oo6. Fellowships from the Na Committee on Honors and Prizes, 1999-2001 (Chair, 2001); Editor, Education tional Science Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Column, Newsletter, 1999-2005; Committee on Publications, 2004-2008. MAS, Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation; Visiting Fellow, Secretary of Section L (History and Philosophy of Science), 1996-2004.journal Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1977. Selected Publications: ofthe History of Biology, Assoc. Ed., 1998-2005, Editor, 2006-present. Awards: The Formation ofScience in japan: Building a Research Tradition (Yale HSS Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize, 2003; MAS Fellow, 1997. Selected UP, 1989); "Japanese Nobel Candidates in the First Half of the 'IWentieth Publications: "French Evolutionary Ethics during the Third Republic: Jean de Century," Osiris Vol. 13 (1998), 238-284; "One Hundred Years of the Nobel Lanessan," in Biowgy and the Foundation ofEthic.s, eds. Jane Maienschein, Science Prizes," Review Essay, Isis Vol. 96 (2005), 625-632; "Katsusaburo and Michael Ruse, Cambridge University Press, pp.84-97, Finding Order in Yamagiwa's Nobel Candidacy: Physiology or Medicine in the 1920s," in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. 0. Wilson, Johns Hop Elisabeth Crawford, ed. Historical Studies in the Nobel Archives: The Prizes kins, 2000; "Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science," American Biology in Science and Medicine (2002), 107 -131; "Japan," in Ronald Numbers, ed. Thacher, 2003: 65(5): 347-54; "Race-Mixing and Science in the United States," Cambridge History ofModern Science (Cambridge UP), forthcoming. Endeavour, 2003, 27(4): 166-170. Ronald Brashear, Director of the Othmer Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor of Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage History of Science and Professor of Medical His Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Ph.D. (not com tory and Science & Technology Studies, Depart pleted) Johns Hopkins University. Profession ment of History of Science/Department of Medical al Activities: Executive Board, Philadelphia History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Area Center for the History of Science; Chair, Madison. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Local Organizing Committee SHOT Annual 1988. HSS and Professional Activities: Isis Meeting, 1997; Curator of History of Science, Editorial Advisory Board, 2004-2006; HSS Com Technology & Medicine, Huntington Library, mittee on Meetings and Programs, 2002-2004; 1988-98; Head, Dibner Library of the History of HSS Annual Meeting Program C
3 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociETV NEWSL£TTER APRIL 2007 Mordechai Feingold, Professor of His World War 1," in Lorraine Th&on and Fernando Vidal, Erls., '!be Moral.Aulhorily of tory, California Institute of Technology. D. Nature (Utffimityd Chicago~. 2004). Phil., Oxford University, 1980. HSS and Professional Activities: Co-Chair HSS Ronald Rainger, Professor, Department of Annual Meeting; Member and Chair of the History, Texas Tech University. Ph.D., History Pfizer Prize Committee; Visiting Professor and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, of the History of Science Society. Selected 1982. HSS and Professional Activi- Publications: "Robert Hooke, Gentleman ties: Program Oirectm; Science and Society of Science," in Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Program, National Science Foundation, 2004- Studies, eds. Michael Cooper and Michael 2006. Pfizer Prize Committee, 1996,1997; Hunter (2006), 203-17; Jbe Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Chair, Pfizer Prize Committee, 1998; Treasurer, Making ofModern Culture (Oxford UP, 2004); "The Origins of the Royal International Society for History, Philosophy Society," in Jbe Practice ofReform in Health, Medicine and Science and Social Studies of Biology, 1997 -1999; 1500-2000, eds. Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrotte (2005), 167-83; Secretary, History of Earth Sciences Society, 1992-1994. Selected Publica ed.jesuit Science and the Republic ofLetters (MIT, 2002) . tions: "Science at the Crossroads: The Navy, Bikini Atoll, and American Oceanography in the 1<)4{)s," H;storical Studies in the Physical and Biologi Ed Larson, University Professor of History cal Sciences, 30 (2000), 349-371; "Constructing a Landscape for Post War and Darling Chair, Pepperdine University, Scienre," Minerva, 39, (2001), 327-352; Naomi Oreskes and Ronald Rainger, Malibu, CA; Russell Professor of History, "Science and Security Before the Atomic Bomb," Studies in the History and University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Ph.D., Philosophy ofModern Physics, 31, no. 3, (2001), 309-369; '"A Wonderful University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985; ].D., Oceanographic Tool': The Atomic Bomb, Radioactivity, and the Development Harvard, 1979. HSS and Professional of American Oceanography," Jbe Machine in Neptune's Garden (Scienre Activities: Member and Chair, Watson-Da History Publications) 2003, pp. 96-131. vis Book Prize Corum.; Member, HSS Devel opment Corum.; Coor. Corum. member and David Rhees, Executive Dim:tor, 1992-pre;en~ Chair, Forum for Hist. of Sci. in America; The Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, Member, NIH Study Section for Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Human MN. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987. Genome Project; Founding member, International Society for Science Getty Museum Leadership Institute, 2006. HSS and Religion. Awards: Pulitzer Prize in History; Fulbright Program's John and Professional Activities: Chair, Commit Adams Chair; National Civil Liberties Award, ACLU; American Spirit Award, tee on Education (2005.{)6); local arrangemen1s Conf. on Southern Lit.; DHL, Ohio State Univ. Selected Publications: for HSSISHOT Minneapolis meeting, 2005; Visit Trial and Error (Oxford, 1985); Sex, Race, and Science (Hopkins, 1995); ing Coounittee, I.emelson Center for the Study of Summer for the Gods (Basic, 1997); Evolutions Workshop (Penguin, Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institu 2001); Evolution (Modern Library, 2004); Constitutional Convention tion, 1997- , SHOT Advisory Council, 1997-2000. (with M. Winship, Modern Library, 2005); Creation-Evolution Debate Selected Publications: "Earl Bakken's little White Box: The Complex Mean (Georgia, 2007); Writings ofClarence Darrow (with]. Marshall, Modern in~ of the First Transistorized Cardiac Pacemaker'' (with Kirk Jeffrey). In Bernard Library House, 2007);A Magnificent Catastrophe (Free Press, 2007). Finn, ed., F.xposmg Elearonics (Amsterdam: Hanvood Academic Publishers, 2000); '"The Chemisls' War: The Impact of World War I on the American Chemical Susan E. Lederer, Associate Professor, Profession," BuJ/elmfor theHislaryofChemNr)l, noo. 13-14 (1992-93): 40-47. Yale University School of Medicine, Associate Co-editor with P. Hrering and 0. Hochadel, Taming the Ekdrical Fire:A Cultural Professor of History and Mrican American History ofthe lightning Rod (submitted for publication). Studies, Yale University. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987. HSS and Nancy Siraisi, profe..'lor emeritus, History; Professional Activities: Member of Isis Hunter College and the Graduate Cenlel; City Uni Editorial Board, Nominating Committee. versity of New Y01k Ph.D., City University of New Member, American Association for the His York, 1970. HSS and Professional Activities: tory of Medicine. Selected Publications: HSS, Council, I~ Con:lo:liiEe oo Hoooo; Subjected to Science: Human Experimen tation in America Before the Second World War ( 1995), Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secret ofNature (2002), and Flesh and Blood: A Cul tural History of Jransplantation and Jransfusion in Twentieth-Cen AneDn tury America (forthcoming). Lederer also serves on the editorial boards of - lr.ldi: ~ Waml Davis the American journal ofBioethics and IRB. - · .AinmoA'IIrialion b'the HNory of Medi- cine. _o4edaJ.. 1985; ~Society of America, Paul Oskar Abigail Lustig, ~t ~ IRpartnmcfffiDJ ~Jni\esilycf'lexz, KJNfu' I.JkDir !diewm:.t:t}w.ud, 2004; American Historical M At-Large Members of .....------William R. Newman, Ruth N. Halls Proferot; Nominating Committee Department of Hisrory and Philooophy of Sdence, In diana UnM!rsity. Ph.D., Hruvard Unimty, 1986. HSS and Professional Activities: HSS Program Chair; Janet Browne, Anunont Professor in the History of 200l, MembeJ; Academie intemationale d'hisroire des sciences, Edi.rorial Board Mernbei; Early Scielu:e and Sdence, Harvanl U~rsity, Ph.D., ~al College london, 1978. HSS and Professional Activities: Medicine, Archimedes, 1be Newton Projed. Award<;: Fonner member Isis EditDrial Board; Council HSS 1999- Ptizer Prize (with LM. Principe), 2005, "Alexandre Koyre Prize for a Young Hisrorian of Science," 1989, 2003; Nominating Cmunittee, 200}; Member Watlon ~Prize Committee, 2oo:i; Ediror £3riliriJ journal Schtunan Prire, 1986,]. R. Partingron Prire, 1982. rf/be Hislory ofSdence, 1993-99; Am:iate Ediror 1be Selected Publications: A/oms andAlchemy: Chymislry and /be Experimen tal Origins ofthe Scientific Revolution (Chicago, 200)), PrometheanAmbiJifms: CotTepondence ofOJarleJ Darwin 1983-<;K); President Alchemy and the Quest to Perfed Nature (Chicago, 2004),Alchemy 7Hed in the Fire: British Society for the History of Science, 2002-4; ~: Fello.v King's College Cambridge 1996, Ptizer Prize, .sYarkey, Boyle, and the Fate qfHelmnnJian Chymistry (Chicago, 2002, with L M. 2004. Selected Publicatiom: 1be&x;ular Ark (1983); Ken Alder, Professor of History, Wilson Karen Rader, associate professor, Department Professor of the Humanities, Director of Science of History, Director STS Initiative, Virginia Com in Human Culture Program, Northwestern monwealth University, Richmond, VA. Ph.D., University. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991. HSS Indiana University (History and Philosophy and Professional Activities: Member of of Science), 1995. HSS and Professional HSS Council, 2006-presen~ Isis Advisory Editor, Activities: Isis Editorial Advisory Board (2004- 1999-2004; Member of SHOT Executive Council, 2007); Committee on Meetings and Programs 2004-07;_1l!dmology & Culture Advisory Editor, (2001-2004, Chair, 2003-2004); DibnerVisiting 1997-present. Selected Publications: Jbe Historian of Science Committee (1999-2001); Lie Dejectors: 7be History ofan American 2002 HSS Workshop Participant: "History of Obsession (Free Press, 2007}; 7be Measure ofAlllbings: Jbe Seven-Year Science at Historically-Black Colleges and Uni Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (Free Press, 2002), versities [HBCU] ;" Co-Chair of the Women's Caucus (1996-98); Coordinating and winner of Davis Prize from HSS, Dingle Prize from BSHS, Kagan Prize for Committee for the Forum on the History of Science in America (1996-1999). European history; and Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlighten Awards: 2005 VISiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Lancaster ment in France, 1763-1815 (Princeton, 1997), winner of Dexter/Edelstein University; 2002-2007 NSF CAREER Grant for "Biology on Display: Museums Prize from SHOT. Sample article: "History's Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and the New life Sciences in America." Selected Publications: Making and Fraud along the Seine." Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 702-16. Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical ReseardJ (Princ eton, 2004); "Scientific Bio-Pia;" and "Intelligent Design Causes Con~ Pamela 0. Long, Independent Historian. at the Smithsonian:" articles for "Science Cinematheque," An on line exhibit Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1979. HSS and for the Museum of the Moving Image (New York); Ecology, Environment, Professional Activities: Isis Editorial Board and 'Big Science': An Annolaled Bibliography ofthe History ofEnviron (1997-99); Osiris Editorial Board (2004-06). menta/. Research at Argonne NationalliJboralory, 1940-1985 (published Editorial Advisory Board,Nuncius (2004-); as ANUHist-4, Argonne National Laboratory Report, Dec 2005); "Revisiting Executive Council, SHOT, 2000-2003; Editorial Women, Feminism, and Developmental Biology'' (with Scott Gilbert, Biology, Committee, SHOT (1995-99); Council, HSS, Swarthmore College), in Science, Medicine, 11Jchnology: 7be Difference 2007-2009. Awards: Getty Scholar, Getty Re Feminism Has Made (Chicago, 2001). search Institute, 2005-06; Davis Fellow, Prince- 6 HISTORY OF SciENCE Soclm NEWsLEIT£R APRIL 2007 News & Inquiries What do Larry Holmes, William Newman, Susan journal's home page (http:/lwww.journals .uchicago.edu/Isis/focus.html). The December 2006 Focus section examined mathematical stories and featured Lindee, and joy Rohde all have in common? articles by Amir Alexander, Mary Terral!, and Joan Richards. The Focus pieces They are past winners of the HSS prize for the best graduate-student essay in provide an excellent overview of important themes in the field. the history of science. The Nathan Reingold Prize (formally the SchlUllan Prize) is the History of Science Society's only annual award for graduate Exhibit on Cosmology students and carries a $500 award along with up to $500 reimbursement to Anew Web site shows how scientists have explored the structure of the uni attend the Society's annual meeting in the Washington Metro area this year. verse. "Cosmic Journey: AHistory of Scientific Cosmology" comes from the The deadline is June 1, and we encourage any and all interested students to educators and historians at the Center for History of Physics of the American submit an essay before the deadline. If you are not a student but have heard Institute of Physics. With more than 35,000 words and 380 striking illustra or read an interesting student paper, please encourage him/her to submit tions, this is by far the most complete web exhibit of its kind: http:/lwww.aip . the work for the prize. Electronic submissions (to [email protected]) are orglhistory/cosmology/. preferred. Please see the HSS Web site for instructions and eligibility details: httpJlwww.hssonline.orglsociety/awards/index.html. HST Database Update You can now compare Eureka and FirstSearch functions and features in tabu NASOH Chairs Wanted lar format. Go to: http://www.oclc .org/services/reference/rlglfirstsearch_for_ The oceanic history conference is fast approaching (May 17-20). The program has eureka_users_table.pdf. You can also view a narrative version: http://www. been set, but several panels still need chairs. To learn more about the conference, oclc.orglservices/reference/rlglfirstsearch_for_eureka_users_paragraph.pdf. please consult httpJlwww.nlNlh.org. To volunteer your services as a panel chail; please contact H-Maritime Advisory Board member Jcmua Smith: smithj@usmmaffiu. New Web site: Darwin in Denmark The site, part of "The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online" (http://dar AlP Gives $1 0,000 to Princeton Archive win-online.org.uk), contains all the 19th century Danish and Norwegian The Center for History of Physi<:S of the American Institute of Physi<:S has granted translations of Darwin, in electronic text and color image forms, with new the David Sarnoff library in Princeton $10,000 to process the papers of Drs. Harry English editorial introductions, an introduction to the reception of Darwin in Olson (1901-1982) and Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982). The two physicists Denmark, a complete bibliography of Danish translations and editions, reviews spent the bulk of their careers at RCA Victor in Camden in the 1930s and the RCA and reactions to Darwin and historical studies of Darwinism in Denmark. Re Laboratories in Princeton from its opening in 1942 until their retirements in the views of Darwin's works in Danish are forthcoming. The Danish & Norwegian early 1970s. texts are also available and searchable within Darwin Online itself. English version: http:/lwww.darwin.au .dk/enl. Harold Varmus Papers The National library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, announces the release of an extensive selection from the papers of molecular Graduate Programs biologist and science administrator, Harold Varmus, on its Profiles in Science Web site at http://www.profiles.nhn.nih.gov. M.Sc. in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society The I.Dndon Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology announces Exhibitions a second M.Sc. degree for training in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society. It emphasizes science policy and sociology of science, building on a firm historical Herbs Through History grounding: httpJlwww.londoncentre -hstm.ac.uk. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents the exhibition "Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History: Physic, Flavor, Fragrance and Dye." Open University of Konstanz until29 June 2007. httpJ/huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/. Ten positions are currently available in the doctoral program "Cultures of Time" in the Center of Excellence EXC 16 "Cultural Foundations of Social The Treasures of NOM's Ark Integration," at the University of Konstanz, Germany. For more information An exhibit to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the National Oceanic and visit: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?joblD=32994. Atmospheric Administration will run until3 September 2007 at the Pacific Science Cente~ Seattle. Call for Papers/Manuscripts/Reviewers Digital Projects & Web Sites Louisiana State University Press I.Duisiana State University Press is now accepting book-length manuscripts and pro Isis Focus Section Now On Line pooals on a wide range ci topics in the history ci science and technology. Ifyou have a The Focus sections from recent issues of Isis are now easily accessible from the completfrl manuscript or p~, please contact ~itions editor Ja;eph B. Powell 7 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociEIY NEWSlflTER APRIL 2007 at ISU Press {[email protected]) (http:!twww.lsu.OOullsupl'e!i'V) or contact Dr. Wesley Shrum ([email protected]) for further information and inquiries. Call for call for Reviewers for Canadian Journal of History Submissions: The Canadum journal ofHistory seeks reviewers for books in a range of fields and topics. Please visit our Web site (www.usask.ca/history/cjh) for The History of 00 guidelines and a list of available books. Ifyou have not revie'Mrl with us 1.1.1 before, we also ask that you fill out our online form for reviewers. We are Science Syllabus also oonsidering articles for inclusion in our late 2007 and 2008 i$Ues. The - qHIACH publishes in all fields of Imtory, geographic, tanporal, and topical. Sampler For contact information and guidelines, or to ask any questions, sre our Web -=;;;) site or write us at [email protected] Volume Ill a Greenwood Press call for Authors z Greenwocxi Press is currently preparing a two-volume, 270-entry Encyclqle The History ofScience Sylla/Jus Sampler volumes 1 (1992} dia of Plague, Pestilence, and Pandemic whose audience is to be undergrad and 2 (2001) have provided an invaluable resource to faculty uate non-5JJ!X:ialists.1he OOitorial board is sreking authors with a range of - members wishing to extend, enrich, and improve their ap sptrialties. http://campus.belmontoowhonorr/Encycl~aWebpage.hlml. proaches to history of science in the cla&<~room . The Commit tee on Education announces the creation of a third sampler HistoJY and Philosophy of the Ute Sciences volume, building on and updating the strong tradition estab HPIS, publishoo by the St.azione Zoologica (Naples), encourages HSS mem lishoo by Sampler I and editor, Henry Steffens. bers to consider publishing on work in the history, phil~hy, and cultural u studies of biology, esproally emphasizing the life sciences in the twentieth century in the journal. Although scholarship from any historical perioo will The third volume will be an on-line, rather than a print or be consideml, the journal sreks articles that are relevant to contanporary ''hardcopy'' project. This will allow the syllabi to be read workers in the life sciences. For queries, please contact the journal's Editor ily available and easily cross-indexoo. It will also eliminate in-Chief, Keith R. Benson ([email protected]) or the journal's printing and shipping costs, and allow for the inclusion of Managing Edito~ Christiane Groeren (groeben®sm.it). many more syllabi than a print version could accommodate. As well, HPIS would like to offer members of the History of Science Soci ety a sp!rial subscription offer of $40/year (regular sulmiption is 50 Euroo). The and Please send inquiries to the journal's e-mail address ([email protected]). Sampler mproject will include syllabi syllabi sections for three broad categories of courses: Darwin and Visual Culture Majors: History of Science Courses for History of Science Majors Contributors are being sought for a volume on Darwin and VISUal Culture. Minors: HNory of Scienre <1>urle; as Enrichment in Other Majors Topics on Darwin's influence on fine art, ~ar-illlture materials or other Harmonics: History of Science Content for Non-History of circulating visual representations from any country from the late ninetrenth Science Courses century to the present are welcome. Send two copies of a cover letter; c. v., essay manl.lfaipt (25 to 30 w, doubl~ 12 pt), and lili>tract p Please consider submitting your own syllabi, and encourage In Memoriam your colleagues, teachers, and students to submit their own. Samuel Devons Samuel Devons died on 16 December 2006. He was 92. The son of arab All inquiries and submissions should be directed bi in Hanley, England, Devons earned a scholarship to Trinity College, to the Editor: Cambridge, where he workoo under Ernest Rutherford and].J. Thomson. Julie R. Newell Upon graduation he workoo on radar projects for the British govern HSS Committee on Education Chair 2007-08 ment and taught physics at the University of London. He also taught a1 [email protected] the University of Manchester and Columbia University and wrote about Newton and Benjamin Franklin, focusing on the history of physics. 8 'J1le Linnean Society of London is creating a digital archive of The Linnean Society of London has contractro with the 1 over 10.7 Terabytes of unique material relating to i1s historic University of London Computing Centre (UI.CC) to create the content collectiorn, enabling full global acreiS. The Society is guardian of the management sys1em that will deliver the collOOion of images and pricele$ colloo:ions of~. manuscripts and letters of the great data to the world. The Centre has playro a leading role in major S\m:iish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). digital archives projocts and initiatives over the past 10 years. ULCC Carl~~~ the binomial naming sys1em of plan1s will also be providing image preseiVation and hooting services. It is and animals that~ are all familiar with today and which provides anticipated the projw will be launched by the end of 2007. the fundamental framework for knowl!rlge of the biota of the Earth, The total cost of bringing this stage of the Unnean Society's supporting effoo:ive COIL'ieiVation measure; and the sustainable use of CARLS Programme to fruition is over£1,000,000 and has been made biodiversity. ~le by generous funding from the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Inspoction of the colloo:ions for re;earch puqxre; is rurrently Fund and from the Society's own resources. only ~ble to th IJonaean Society: www.lioneao.org ULCC: www.ulcc.ac.uk New Transcription Reveals Newton's "Theory of Everything" Anew transcription of Isaac Newton's "theory of everything," providing rare English text are followed by a page and a half of Latin, written upside down. The I\insight into the scientist's views on nearly all known natural phenomena, is pages are riddled with worm holes and the document itself was apparently saved now available online to scholars around the world. from the blitz on London in World War II. In an ongoing project to produce an online scholarly edition of Newton's Isaac Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject work, William R. Newman, professor of the history and philosophy of science at of alchemy, in formats ranging from laboratory notebooks to indices of Indiana University, oversaw the editing of Newton's "Of Natures obvious laws & alchemical substances. processes in vegetation," complete with a hitherto unpublished section in Latin. Supported by the National Science Foundation, the project continues to build The manuscript as a whole is important in part because it shows how a repository of searchable transcriptions with page images. Newton linked alchemy to his early theory of gravitation. Many alchemists had "Our ultimate goal is to provide complete annotations for each manuscript argued that an ethereal substance circulated between the center of the earth and and comprehensive interactive tools for working with the texts," says Newman. To the sun, and that this invisible material was responsible for combustion, for the date, over seven hundred pages have been published and can be keyword searched. subterranean generation of metals, and for the preservation of life in general. Indiana University's Digital library Program collaborates closely with New In "Of Natures obvious laws" the young Newton adopted this alchemical theory man, providing project planning and technical services. The project is affiliated and expanded it by saying that the ether pushed matter towards the center of the with The Newton Project originating at Imperial College London. earth, hence accounting for why things fall. The document is held by the Dibner library for Science and Technology The Ch¥mistry of Isaac Newton can be viewed at: http:/lwww .dlib.indiana. at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Approximately 11 pages of edu/collections/newton. 9 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SociETY "'EWSLETTER APRIL 2007 Nobel Museum, or visitbllpilwww.shpusa.C01J'IIbfx:kl From Our Members lecture.btml to see posters from prior lectures. Robert Smith (Unimty of Calgary) is now the 8abak Ashrafi takes up his new position as Ex the annual series of invited lectures sponsored by the Charles A Lindbergh Chair in Aem;pare History for ecutive Director of the Philadelphia Area Center for BBVA Foundation. His topic was ''1he Art of Scientific 'lJX)7 at the Smithsonian Institution. the History of Science on April1 (see page 15 for 1nve51igation," and they are to be publishoo in books interview). (Spanish and English). John Rudolph, associate proferor in the School of Education at the Uni~ity ci.WISCOnsin-Madi 7be fo/Jowing announcemenis have been editedfor The University of Konstanz invitfs applications for the position of research group space. For full descriptions andfor the latest leam for the fellows group "Idioms of~ Analysis" (salary scale EG 141V-L). 0 Bs announcements, ple~ visit bttp:llhssonline. 1he research focus includes semantics and rhetorical structures of social science; and J humanities as ~u as relatOO non-scholarly political, mErlia, etc. knowledge org. 7be &xiety does not assume responsibiliJyfor the discourses aa:uracy ofany item, and tnterestedpersons should verify an details. Jbose who orders in their historical transfonnation. For additional infonnation visit hUp:/lwww. wish to publish a job announcement should send an ekx:Jronic version of the post h-netol'!}'joWdisplayjob.php~obiD=33. ing to [email protected]. The University of Konstanz is seeking to fill ten positions in the doctoral program Kean University invitfs applications for three history po;itions: Modem European "Cultures of Tune" in the Center of Excellence EXC 16 "Cultural Foundations of Social History, History of Science & Technology, and American History. Review of applications Integration," funded by the Excellence Initiative of the fffieral and state governments. will continue until the position is filloo. Position begins 1 September 2007. Send letter of Each position has a duration of 24 months; a 12-month extension is ~le upon a inte~ c.v., and three letters of reference to Kean Uni~rsity, 100 Morris A~., Union, N] sucre;sfu! performance exam (I.eistung;prtifung). 07083, Attention: History Department Further infonnation: hUp:llwww.kean.lrlu. The Chemical Heritage Foundation invitfs applications for program manager The Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of of Environmental History and Policy.1he program manager will ~lop and manage Wisconsin-Madison invitfs applications for a nine-month visiting appointment at projects on environmental hNory and policy and will pi'OpQ'if, OO.ign, and implement the assistant proferor level in the history of medicine and public health, beginning Fall projects on topics at the interfare of environmental science and tromology with industry, 'lJX)7. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in the history of medicine, the hNory of science, ~~ and enviro1.11m1tal non-government organizations. To apply, send: a co~ or history. Applications, including a c. v., writing samples, and the names of three nfu letter briefly outlining skills, eJqHience, and your vision for the area; examples of relevant enre; with {XNal and e-mail ad!:lre,re; and phone numbers, should be sent to Wruwick projff:t work, inc!Wing publications or rqJOrts; }001' c.v.; and contact infonnation for tv.u Anrerson, Chair; Department ci MErli.cal History and Bmhics, Uniwtsity ci.WISOO!ISin, refetme.ei to Arthur Dlenmrid1, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Olestnut SliM, 1300 U~ty A~ue, Madron, WISCOllSin, 537o6. The UW is an EO and fl..}£. PhilaMphia, PA 191o6. For more infonnation e-mail [email protected]. 10 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociETY NEWSL.£TJ£R APRIL 2007 Antioch CoUege invites applications for a tenure-track pooition a-; ~tant Profe.."iir the starting date. Informal enquirie> may be made to the Administrato~ Tamara Hug of Sociology beginning 1 ~ 2007. We are interest.OO in candidates who can con (th 10001 @cam.ac.uk). The cl Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes '!befollnwing announcemenls have been aiiledfor tpace. ForfuO dimiptirmsandfor The H. Richard 1)1er Award the latest announcemenls, p/Rase visit our Web site (hllpf!hronJine.org). '!be &xidy This award sponso!'OO by the American Academy of Neurology (MN) encourages does not a.w,memfXJI1Sibililyfor the accuracy ofan:y item, andpotential a{!Jliamls historical re;earch using the AM:{ Rare Books Coll~on at the Bernard ~ker Medical sfuuld verify aO delails, e<{J«ia/Jy d&ing dates, wiJh the organWJion or foundation of tnterest. 71xJse wlxJ wish to publish a grant, fe/Jowship, or prize announcement library at the Wa-;hington University School of Medicine in St louis, MO. Applications sfuuld send an eledronictmion of/he posting to ~hwnline.org. can be submitted online from the MN Web site at http:!/www.aan.com/~. Further information, visit http:/!bocketwustl.edu/aan. Beckman Center VISiting Scholar Program li'avel Grants The CHF Bedanan Center VISiting Scholar Program offers grants to help defray the The University of Oklahoma Travel FeUowship Program direct 2007 FHHS Article Award NYAM Student Essay Prize The Forum for History of Human Science invites submissions for its Article Award 'nle New Yo.rk Aca£kmy of Medicine invites entrie> for the New Yo.rk Academy of Medicine for 2007. The competition is for published articles appearing with an imprint date of Student ~y Prize, awan:krl to the best unpublished e;say by a graduate student in a 2004-2oo6 inclusi~ly. Deadline: 15 June 2007. Send thrre cq>ies of the article to Nadine medical, nursing, pharmacy, or public health program in the U.S. The winner will recei~ Weidman, Secretary of FHHS, 138 Woburn St, Medford MA 02155. Further information: $500, and the winning e;say will receive expedited review for ~ible publkation in the http:!twww.thhs .org. journal ofUrban Health. For more information, please call us at 212.822.7314, or visit http:/lwww.nyam.ol'!¥granls/studentessay.shtml, or e-mail: [email protected]. lawrence Memorial Award Gi~ to support l:r:Ml for dissertation re;earch in ~c botany or horticulture, or Scientific Ins1rument Society Research Grants hNory of the plantf£ielm. Profeoors may nominate stuOOl.ts who ha~ ~of 'nle Scientific Instrument Society awards small grants for re;earch on the history of tidal candidacy. letters of nomination and suw>rting materials should be recei\W by the scientific instruments. Grants may be used to ~ any m;ts of researrh, including travel Committre by 1 May 2007 and dinned to: Dr R W. Kige~ Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mel and photography. Applications can be submitted at any time and will be revievro by the lon Unirersity, 5000 Forbes ~me, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 U.S. Thl. 412-268-2434. Society's Committre. Application forms and further details are available at http://www.sis. org.uk/granl'>.htm. 11 HISTORY Of SciENCE SociETY liiiEWSL.ETml .o\PRIL 2007 Photo Essay The Higginson Telephone t was a Western Electric model 20AL- the most common candlestick phone An avid music love.; Herny Lee Higginson founded the Balton Symphony Or Ion the market It looked pretty much like any other candlestick phone- the chestra in 1881 and was its chief benefactor. In 1890, by then a SU Til! AUDIENCE IN 1111! AT&T 111l!ATIUl, PANAMA PAcmc ExfosmoN, SAN FIIANcJSCo. to participate in the events around the first transcontinental telephone collector who had obtained it from a relative of Higginson. I hadn't heard of Hig call. The call took place between ginson, and knew little about the transcontinental telephone line. But this was too New York and San Francisco on good to pass up, so I bought the phone and began my research. January 25, 1915. Henry Higginson The Transcontinental Tele Herny Lee Higginson was a noted Baltonian banker and philanthropist phone line As a young man during the Civil War, he and his seven friends joined the army, The transcontinental where he served with distinction and attained the rank of majot Six of the seven telephone line linking the Atlantic friends were killed in the war, a teqible personal loss that would profoundly seaboard with the West Coast was shape the rest of his life. completed in the summer of 1914. Over 13,6oo miles of No. 8 copper wire were laid; four wires crossing 13 states on 130,000 poles. Six repeater stations featuring the new DeForest audion vacuum tube amplifier were required to maintain the signal at acreptable VACUUM TIJBE 11Ul' MADE 11IE LONG DISTANCE UNE levels. The rate for a three-minute call: $20.70 Strict orders were given that !IT&T president Theodore Vail's voice must be the first to be heard across the line. This led to some creative teiting procedures, which ensured no single engineer's voice was carried coast to coast Finally, on July 29, 1914, with little fanfare, Vail spoke the first words to be heard across the continent Officials had planned for the launch of the new line to coincide with the opening of the Panama-Pacific ~ition (later to become Golden Gate PREPARING TO SllND 1111! TONES Of 1111! LmmrrY &u. FRoM l'lmADI!UIIIA TO SAN FIWICISCO Park), in San Francisco, but since the line was finished a few months early, the VIA 111E 11WISCON11NENTAL TELEPHONE LINE public event opening the line had to Wait 12 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociETY NEWSLETTER APRIL 2007 The Panama Pacific Exposition In 1906 San Francisco was devastated by a great earthquake and fire. Only nine years late~; the Panama Pacific Expa;ition opere! its gate;-not so much as a tribute TALK BY TELEPHONE FROM to the completion of the Panama Canal as a grand celebration of the rebirth of the city. , -sOSTON TO SAN FRANCISCO And grand it was. 'The eleven exhibit palaces covered over 64 acres. A Ford assem bly line was set up in the Palace of Transportation and turned out one shiny black .World's Record long ·Distailce Line Model-T every 10 minutes for three hours every afternoon. The entire area was illu minated by the latest developments in indirect lighting by General Electric. Thomas Works Withouf a Hitch. Edison, Henry Ford and other greats were seen frequenting the grounds of the fair. On opening day, President Woodrow Wilson used a wireless apparatus from his office in Washington D.C. to start the diesel-OOven generator that supplied all of the direct current used in the Palace. There was excitement and wonder in the air. The magic continooi on January 25, 1915, when the 3,400 miles sq:~arating New York and San Francisco suddenly vanishOO as the transcontinental telq>hone line was officially qmffi for business. Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell's fonner as<;istan~ assembled with a group of dignitaries at the Expo's AT&T theatre, while Bellied a similar group in New York Audience IlleiilOOs at both locations \\ffe each pl'OViOOi a set of head phones, giving them a firsthand qJpOrtunity to listen in. At 4:30 p.m. in New York, Dl: Bell lifted the receiver and began a ronversation with Thomas Watson. fRoNI' P AGE OF 111E BosroN GwBE, }ANUARY 26, 1915 "Hoy! Hoy! Ml: Watson! Are you there? Do you in San Francisco, replied, "It would take me a week now!" hear me?" Henry Lee Higginson and a group of officials waited in Boston. In front of them "Yes, Dr Bell, I hear you ~rfectly, do you hear sat the latest in telephone technology, a Western Electric Model20AL desk telephone. me well?'' At 8:00p.m. eastern time, Higginson picked up the phone and placed a call to "Yes! Your mice is ~rfectly distinct " Watson waiting in San Francisco. After exchanging pleasantries, Higginson handed the phone to Boston Mayor James M. Curley, who spoke with his counterp~ San Later in the call, AT&T President Francisco Mayor James Rolph. 'Theodore Vail again joined in from Jekyll Island, and 'Theodore Vail spoke from Jekyll Island, Ga, a host of other officials took their tum at participating in this historic event and President Wilson offered his thanks The opening events~ only a prelude. Exhibitions and 001lonstrations were staged and congratulations from the White House. daily and included remote "ronversations" with famous people such as 'Thomas Edison, The call continued for some time, with Admiral Peary, and many others. An Indian chief spoke from Wmnemucca, Nevada, and congratulatory speeches and conversations two Chinese exchanged greeting; in their native tongue, offering a simple but effective from officials on both coasts. At one point 001lonstration that the line rould transmit a foreign language. VIsitors ~re also treated during the call, someone asked Professor Bell to the sound of the surf crashing on the rocks of the Atlantic emu.One of the most if he would repeat the first words he ever said imp~ demonstrations took place in Independence Hall, Philadelphia Atelephone over the telephone. He obliged, picking up transmitter was placed insi~ the liberty Bell, and when it was tapped with \\OOden mal the phone and repeating "Mr. Watson, come lets, the ring of the old bell was heard in San Francisco. It broke a silence of 00 years, the here, I want you." To which Watson, bell having cracked while tolling the deal:h of Chief Justice Marshall in 1835. 'The transcontinental telephone line show at the AT&T theatre would be one of the most popular exhibits of the fail; from opening day until the gates clooed on Dtmnber 4th, 1915. Following the fail; the line continued to capture the public's imagination as heard in The Ziegfeld Follies' "Hello, Frisro," the most popular tune of 1915. Western Electric 20AL telephones, like the one Higginson used, were introduced CLOSE-UP OF 11IE in 1915 and made by the millions. But a small bras<; plaque attached to the neck IIIIASS PlAQUE ON 11IE makes this one unique: a tribute to that magical day when east met~ when the HIGGINSON 'i'ELEPHONE peal of an historic old bell in Philadelphia was heard all the way to San Francisco - the opening of the transrontinental telq>hone line. 1bday, the Higginson tekplxme is an di. n Babak Ashrafi's future office, the walls are being painted. The new, and ence and Technology Project, a Web-based collaborative history project. "It was an Ifirst, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science attempt to use the Web as a collaborative medium among historians and scientists. (PACHS) took up his position on April 1, 2007, in rooms provided by the American We established five collaborative groups and built a Net-based infrastructure to do Philosophical Society. Ashrafi, who moves from the American Institute of Physics, interviews online, to build interactive timelines, and to collect and annotate docu says the PACHS mandate will be to promote scholarship in, and public understand ments and bibliographies on line." The inevitable technical issues cropped up, ing of, history of medicine, science and technology. as well as the familiar historical ones, such as how to deal with living historical PACHS will undertake three kinds of activities to meet its mandate, says actors and how to tell their stories. "Another issue was that of collaboration. We in Ashrafi. "First is to provide fellowships for research in the collections of consortium the humanities can be very individualistic, even as we study others' communities institutions. These fellowships will initially be available only to graduate students, and institutions. So that was a tremendous learning experience for me." and will be made available to other scholars in the next few years. Second is to The next move was to the American Institute of Physics in 2003, as associate contribute to understanding and awareness of the history of science by organizing historian at the Center for History of Ph}'sics. Ashrafi worked on the oral history events and producing materials for various audiences outside academia. And third collection (which dates back to 1960 and now includes around 1,500 histories), is to have a rich Web infrastructure for scholars and the public that will leverage helping to add to the collection and to administer and digitize it. As well, he the activities and collections of the consortium institutions." worked on improving access to the Center's Web-based catalogs. Finally, Ashrafi The consortium is a large one: The Library Company of Philadelphia; Uni continued his own research on the development of quantum mechanics. "I've versity of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Sociology of Science; American been working on three figures, Max Born, Victor Weisskopf, and H. A. Kramers. Philosophical Society; Program in History of Science at Princeton University; There was a period in the 1930s and 1940s when there was a broad range of ideas College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Academy of Natural Sciences; Franklin In about the most promising questions to pursue in order to advance the recently stitute; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Wagner Free Institute of Science; Hagley developed quantum mechanics. It's an exercise in how scientists develop, share, Museum and Library; and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. and invest in questions when the hints are few and the consensus is weak." "There is a long history of collaboration between the founding institutions, Building PACHS will take up all of Ashrafi's time for the next few years. "It is and much overlap between their separate collections in history of medicine, sci beginning very small but is huge in ambition." To that end, he is eager to work ence and technology," says Ashrafi. "Establishing PACHS is a way of strengthening with other institutions that wish to become affiliated or to help develop programs, their collaborations and increasing use of their holdings in these fields. " as well as with individuals who would like to participate. Martin Levitt, Librarian at the American Philosophical Society, came up with PACHS's strength will be through the partnerships it forms, Ashrafi says. "We the initial idea for PACHS in 2004. Now that it's up and running, with startup hope it will be a crossroads that many historians will pass through, either for short support from the Sloan Foundation and four years of National Science Foundation trips or long stays. We don't have a particular point of view that we're trying to funding through a grant to the American Philosophical Society, the first priorities push. I hope that people will find it to be an intellectually open minded but skepti are to start up student fellowships, build the infrastructure, and organize outreach cal environment. I hope that by being a site of rich resources for research and and conferences. PACHS plans include two types of conferences, says Ashrafi: rigorous debate among scholars from a broad variety of approaches, PACHS will meetings that are open to the general public and those that promote scholarship contribute to excellent scholarship." on specific topics. The first two meetings are already being organized. "Knowing -By Michal Meyer Global Environment: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences" will be held 10-12 May 2007 in honor of Robert E. Kohler. Aconference on Arctic and Sub PACHS will be holding a reception at the 2007 HSS meeting during which there Arctic Exploration is being planned for May 2008. will be a preren!ation about the PACHS prograrm;. Members of the founding Ashrafi came to the history of science after completing a physics Ph.D. in institution will be there for discussion and to answer any questions. high-energy theory at Stony Brook in 1995. His prior degree was at MIT, where he took philosophy and history classes while completing degrees in physics and mathematics. ''When I was working on my Ph.D. in physics, I was also reading PACHS Origins Shapin and Schaffer, Sharon Traweek, Evelyn Keller, Andy Pickering, jed Buchwald and Peter Galison." After finishing his degree, Ashrafi found himself back in An Executive Committee of representative institutions, along with several inter Boston with a free three months before his job began. "Through the serendipity ested parties and distinguished historians of science, was responsible for creating of meeting people such as Diane Paul, Evelyn Keller and Sam Schweber, and then an establishing documen~ a strategic plan and budge~ and the vision of how getting introduced to the next person, I got to the colloquia at Harvard and MIT PACHS will serve the history of science community and the public. Of particular and began sitting in on seminars. At one point Peter Galison asked me to help note were the contributions of Ruth Schwartz Cowan (University of Pennsylva teach a history of twentieth-century physics course. I decided to stay on and try nia), Angela Creager (Princeton University), Ed Morman (formerly, College of to make the switch in fields. Fortunately, MIT and the Dibner Institute made that Physicians of Philadelphia), Robert Peck (Academy of Natural Sciences), George possible with a fellowship." Vogt (fonnerly, Hagley Museum and Library), and American Philosophical In 2000, while completing a Ph.D. in historical and social studies of science Society staff and Fellows, including Head of Developrnen~ Nanette Holben. and technology at MIT, Ashrafi moved to the Sloan/Dibner History of Recent Sci- 15 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLIDER APRIL 2007 77Je jolloLI'ing announcements bal'e been editedj ar space. 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City ofthe Blues: Sickle Celt Anemia and the Joseph Kaplan Thomas Parke The George Sarton Memorial Lecture Politics of Race and Health (University of North 1962 Hughes W Emilio Segre 1987 is named in honor of George Sarton, one of the Carolina Press, 2001}, and Drawing Blood: 1963 Frederic L. Holmes originators of the field of the history of science. Technology and Disease IdenJity in JWentieth Gerald Holton 1988 Begun in 1960, the Lecture is given annually at Century America Oohns Hopkins University 1964 Stephen Jay Gould the meetings of the American As.sociation for the Press, 1997). He is also the co-editor of other Uoyd Stevenson 1989 Advancement ofScience, in formal conjunction books and the author of articles and reviews, 1965 John L. Heilbron with the History ofScience Sociely, and under the along with being a frequent- and visible pres Stillman Drake 1990 auspices of Section L, The History and Philooophy ence on radio, television, (appearing in several 1966 Margaret W. Rossiter of Science, of the American Associatkm far the PBS documentaries as well as talk-shows), and in GeorgeWald 1991 Advancement ofScience. numerous lectures for public audiences. 1967 Kenneth R. This year's speaker, Keith Wailoo adds to the He is the recipient of numerous grants and Cyril Stanley Smith Manning 1968 1992 distinguished list of Sarton Lectures. Ascholar of fellowshi~ that include the prestigious James S. Oswei Temkin Spencer Weart unusual breadth, Wailoo was rerently named Mar McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of 1969 1993 tin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers, Science, a $1,000,000 award to sponsor his research Martin Klein Gerald Geison The State University of New Jersey. He is jointly and hosting of conferences, along like the Robert 1970 1994 appointed there in the Department of History and Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Evelyn Hutchinson Roy Porter in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy; and Health Policy, and grants from the National Insti 1971 1995 Aging Research, a center devoted to facilitating tutes of Health, the National Science Foundation EmstMayr Ronald Numbers research and enriching education on matters of and the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund. 1972 1996 race and ethnicity in America. Before joining Rut Professor Wailoo is currently fellow at the Cen Thomas Kuhn Jane Maienschein gers University in 2001, he taught at the University ter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1973-1975 1997 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his (for 2()()6...{)7) where he is completing two books. no lectures MottGreene Ph.D. in 1992 from the Department of the History The first is titled How Cancer Crossed the Color 1976 1998 Joseph Fruton Garland Allen and Sociology of Science at the University of Penn line: Race and Disease in America and is pres 1977 1999 sylvania, and he holds a Bachelor's Degree from ently under contract with Oxfoni University Press; Jane Oppenheimer MaryJoNye Yale University in Chemical Engineering, which he the second is titled Pain: 1be Cultural Poliiics of 1978 2000 earned in 1984. Relief in America. For his Sarton l£cture today, I. Bernard Cohen Edward Larson Professor Wailoo is one of the leading experts he has selected to speak from the first of these with 1979 2001 on the history of disease, health, and medicine, the title, "Discipline and Disease: The Social Trans George White David Hollinger having written several award-winning books for formation of Cancer in the Age of Biomedicine." 1980 2002 his work on such topics as sickle cell disease; race, Please join me in welcoming Professor Wailoo to Charles C. Gillispie Loren Graham science and medicine; the history of techttology this year's Sarton Memorial Lecture. 1981 2003 and disease; and the problem of inequality in Richard S. Westfall Stephen Pyne American health and medical care. His award Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis 1982 2004 Henry Guerlac Naomi Oreskes winning books include The 'Proubled Dream of Chair, Section L, History and Philosophy of Science, 1983 2005 Genetic Medicine: Etbnicity and Innovation in AAAS Derek de Solla Price Philip Pauly Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease Departments of Zoology and History 1984 2006 (co-authored with Steven Pemberton with johns University of Florida Arnold Thackray Jamil Ragep Hopkins University Press, 2006)), Dying in the Gainesville, FL 32611 Washington Pittsburgh Phoenix Metro Area Pennsylvania Arizona (1-4 Nov. 2007) Qoint Meeting with PSA, 6-9 Nov. 2008) (18-22 Nov. 2009) 20 HISTORY OF SciENCE SociETY NEWSLETJER APRIL 2007 Prior to the publication of each Newsletter, the HSS Executive Office receivffi from the Isis Editorial Office a list of books received by that office for potential review. Isis Books Received This list appears here quarterly; it is not compiled from the annual Current Bibliography. You may also view this list and prior lists online at http://www. hssonline.orglsociety/isislmf_isis.html. Adas, Michael. Dominance fly Prei<>, 2006.£35 (cloth). 0719073766. bib!., index. Boulde~; CO: University Gingerich, Owen. Gods Universe. fu'ign: 7edmological Imperatives Bynum, W.F.; Bynum, Helen Press of Colorndo, 2007. $50 (cloth). Foreword by Peter ]. Gomffi. xi + 139 arul Americas Civilizing Mission. 542 (Editors). Dictimulry of Medical 0870818430. pp., fig:;., index. Cambridge, MA: HaiVard pp., illus., notes, index. Cambridge, MA: Biograpby. 5 Yolumffi, xl + 1415 pp., Dawkins, Richard. 7beGod Delusion. University Press, 2006. $16. 95 (cloth). HaiVard University Press, 2006. $29.95 fig;., apps.,bibls., index. Westport, CT: x + 406 pp., app., bib!., index. New York: 978-674023703. (cloth). 0674018672. Greenwood Prei<>, 2007. $749.95 (cloth). Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. $27 Grayling, A.C. Descartes: 7be life of Aftandilian, David (Editor). Wl¥11 9780313328770. (cloth). 978061868oo09. Rene fucartes and & Place in His Are the Animals to Us? ApproadJesfrom Cambefort, Yves. fu col«pteres, des DeGrandpre, Richard. 7be Cult of 'Jimes. xvi + 352 pp., figs., bibl., index. Scienm, Religion, Folklore, lileralure, roil«:Hons et des hom111e/. 375 pp., ill us., Pharmacology: How America Became Originally publishOO in 2005. London: arul Art. xxv + 343 pp., figs., tablffi, fig:;, tablffi, ap{li., bibls., indexffi. Paris: the Worlds Most Troubled Drug Culture. Simon & ShusteJ; 2006. $19.99 (paper). index. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Publications Scientifique; du Museum x + 294 pp., ap{li., bib!., index. Durham, 9781416522638. Prei<>, 2007. $45 (cloth). 157233472X. national d'Histoire naturelle, 2006. Euro NC: Duke University Press, 2007. $24.95 Greene, jeremy A. Prescribing fly Aldana, Gerardo. 7be Apotheosis of 39 (paper). 9782856535943. (cloth). 9780822338819. Numbers: Drugs arul the Definition janahb Pakal: Scienm, Histqry, arul Chareix, Fabien. La philowphie Dubow, Saul. A Commonwealth of of Disease. XV + 318 pp., fig:>., index. Religion at Classic Maya Palentjue. naturelle de Christiaan Huygens. 322 Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, arul Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University illus., tablffi, index. Boulder: University pp., figs., tablffi, bib!. Indexffi. Paris: W1Ne South Africa 1820-2000. xi + Press, 2007/$49.95 (cloth). 0801884772. Press of Colorado, 2006. $55 (cloth). Librairie Philosophique J. Yrin, 2006. 296 pp., fig:;., bib!., index. Oxford: Oxford Guan, Zengjian, et al. A Draft ofthe 9780870818660. Euro 30 (paper). 2711618269. University Press, 2006. £f!J (cloth). History of Modern arul Contemporary Althoff, W'dliam F. Drift StatilJn:Arctic Clausberg, Karl. Zwischen den 0199296634. Metrology in China.llxmgguo ftn xian OuJposts ofsuperpower Sciences. xiii + Stemen: lichtbildarchive. Was Einstein Duffin, jacalyn; Sweetman, Arthur dai ji liang shi gao. (Zhongguo jin 355 pp., illus., fig:;, tabiffi, apps., index. urul UetkiiO, Benjamin urul das Ki1w (Editors). SARS in Con/ad: Memory, xian dai ke xue ji shu shi yan jiu cong Dullffi, Vuginia: Potomac Books, Inc., der Aslronomie des 19. jahrhunderts History, Policy. xxi + 206 pp., illus., shu.) 258 pp., tablffi, bibl., index. Jinan: 2007. $39.95 (cloth). 9781574887716. verdanken. x + 270 pp., illus., fig:;., apps., fig:;., index. Montreal: MeGill-Queen's Shandong Education Press (Shandong Belanger, Dian Olson. Detp Freeze: bibl., indexffi. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, University Prei<>, 2006. $27.95 (paper); jiao yu chu ban she), 2005. (paper). 7be United States, the International 2006. Euro 49.80 (cloth). 3050040432. $75 (cloth). 9780773531949. 7532849791. Geophysical Year, arul the Origins of Conn, Steven. Historys Shadow. Edgerton, David. 7be Shock of the Han, Jianping; Cao, Xingsui; Wu, Anlarctica s Age of Scienm. xxix + Native Americans arul Historical Old: Tochnology arul Global Hislory Liwei. Cokmial Scientific Institutions 494 pp., illus., fig:;., index. Boulder, CO: Consciousness in the Nineteenth Stnce 1900. xvili + 270 pp., fig:;., bib!., During the joparu?Se Occupation arul University Press of Colorado, 2006. $29.95 Century. xii + 276 pp., illus., bibl., index. index. Oxford: Oxford University Prei<>, Puppet Manchukuo Period: History (cloth). 0870818309. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. $26 (cloth). 9780195322835. andlileralure. Ri wei shi qi de zhi mtn Benzaquen, Adriana s. Encounters 2006. $22.50 (paper). 0226114953. di ke yan ft gou: li shi yu wen xian. Elsner, }as; Rubies, Joan-Pau (7hongguo jin xian dai ke xue ji shu shi with W'tld Cbildren: Temptation arul Cook, Harold}. Matters ofExchange: (Editors). Voyage\' &Vil'ions: 7bwards Disappointment in the Study of yan jiu cong shu.) 468 pp., fig:;., bib!., Commerce, Medicine, arul Scienm in a Cultural History of '!ravel. (Critical index. Jinan: Shandong Education Press Human Nature. vi + 393 pp., fig:;., the Dutch Golden Age. xiv + 535 pp., Views.) vii + 344 pp., fig:;., bib!., index. bib!., index. Montreal: MeGill-Queen's (Shandong jiao yu chu ban she), 2006. figs., bib!. New Haven, cr. Yale University London: Reaktion Books, 1999. $24.95 49 (paper). 9787532853939. University Press, 2006. $34.95 (cloth). Prei<>, 2007. $35 (paper). 0300117965. (paper). 9781861890207. 0773529721. Hoeg, Jerry; Larsen, Kevin S. Corsi, Pietro; Gayon, jean; Feng, Xuning; Yuan, Xiangdong. (Editors). Scienm, literature, arul BOhme-KaSler, Katrin. Gohau, Gabriel; Tmml, Stephane. A Short History ofAlgebra in Modern Gemeinschaftsunternehmen Film in the Hispanic World. xiv + Lamarck, phiJosophe de fa nature. China. llxmgguo ftn dai dai shu shi 250 pp., index. New York, NY: Palgrave Naturforschung: Modijikation Edittrl by Dominique Loo>urt. (Science, }ian bian. (Zhongguo jin xian dai ke urul '!radition in der Gesellschaft MacMillan, 2006. $69.95 (cloth). Histoire et Societe.) xii + 167 pp., index. xue ji shu shi yan jiu cong shu.) 198 pp., 1403974381. NaJurj'org:hende Freurule zu Berlin Paris: Pressffi Universitaires de France, bib!., index. Jinan: Shandong Education 1773-1906. 218 w.. tables, aw;., 2006. Euro 20 (paper). 9782139519768. Prei<> (Shandong jiao yu chu ban she), Horn, Jeff. 7be Path Not Taken: ~. ii¥b. (Pallas Alheoe, Band 15). 2006. (paper). 7532853942. French Industrialization in the Age of Stullgart Franz Steiner \8iag. :mi. Cott, Jooatban. ContJeT'SfJJifms Revolution 1750-1830. ix + 383 pp., Euro 39(dolh). 3-515-0022-2. wiJh Glenn Gould 159 pp., fig;., apps. Ferreiro, Larrie D. Ships arul illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Om/ext. 258 pp., fi~ .• bibls. Lanham, (paper). 971m14752135. bib!., index. Burlington: ~hgate/ A Manual for Cmlting Clear MD: Rowman & littlefield Publishers, Lear, Linda. l3ealri.x Potter. A life Variorwn Prei'i, 2006. $114.95 (cloth). Presentations. x + 126 pp., fi~., tables, 2oo6. $65 (cloth). 9780739109557. in Nature. xix + 584 pp., ii.Ius., bib!., 0860789934. apps., index. Cambridge: Cambridge Hu, Weija. Sekned Materials on the index. New York St. Martin's Prei'i, _LOpez-OcOn,Leoncio;Chaumeil, University Prei'i, 2007. $22.99 (paper). Science and Technology in the P~'s 2007.$30 (cloth). 0312369344. Jean Pierre; Casanova, Ana 0521683459. RfPublic of China {1949-1995). Lecointre, Guillaume; Le Verde (Editors ).liJsammcanistas Ndiaye, Pap A. Nylon and Bombs: (Zhongguo jin xian dai ke xue ji shu Guyader, Hen-e. 7be Tree of del siglo XIX La amstrua:i6n de una DuPont and the March of Modern shi yan jiu cong shu.) 381 pp., bib!., life: A PhylogeneJic ~jiaJJion. comunidadcient(fica internacional. AmeriaJ. Translatro by Elborg Forster. irxb:. Jinan: Shandong Education Translatro by Karen Mctl>y. 560 pp., 355 pp., illus., fi~. Frankfurt: VeMJert 289 pp. fi~ .• tables, index. Baltimore: ~rl~gesellschaft, Prei'i (Shandong jiao yu chu ban illus., fi~ .• apps., indexes. Cambridge, 2oo6. Euro 44 Johns Hopkins Uni~rsity Prei'i, 2007. she), 2oo6. (paper). 7532853802. MA: Harvard University Prei'i, 2oo6. (cloth). 8484892239. $45 (cloth). 0801884446. Hu, Zonggang. Historical #39.95 (cloth). 9780674021839. MacDonald, Graham; Papineau, Newton, Roger G. From Ckx:kwork manuscript of Fan Memorial Lesy, Michael. Murder Cily: 7be David (Editors). 'JlJ/rosemantics. to Crapshoot:AHistoryofPhysics. vii+ Institute ofBiology . jingsheng sheng Bloody History of OJicago in the vii + 232 pp., fi~.. bibls., in&!x. 340 pp., fi~., bib!., index. Cambridge, wu diao cha suo shi gao. (Zhongguo '!Wenties. 344 pp., fi~. , index. New Oxford: Oxford University Prei'i, 2006. MA: Harvard Uni~rsity Prei'i, 2007. jin xian dai ke xue ji shu shi yan York:W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., £16.99 (paper). 0199270279. $29.95 (cloth). 970074023376. jiu cong shu.) 250 pp., illus., fi~., 2007.$24.95 (cloth). 9700393060300. Mancha, Jose Luis. Studies in Ostry, Aleck. Nutrition Policy tables, bib!., index. Jinan: Shandong Medieval Mronomy and ~tics. in Canada, 1870-1939. 143 pp., Education Press (Shandong jiao yu Li, Xuetong. 7be Chronicle of Dr. (Variorwn Collected Studies Series.) fi~., tables, bib!., index. Vancou~r: chu ban she), 2005. (paper). 7-5328- Wong Wen-hao. Weng Wenhao nian x + 182 pp., fi~., tables, indexes. UBC Prei'i, 2007. $34.95 (paper). 5132. pu. (Zhongguo jin xian dai ke xue ji shushiyan jiucongshu.) 430pp., bib!., Burlington, vr. ~gate, 2oo6. $119.95 077481327X. Jeauneau, Edouard (Editor). index. Jinan: Shandong Education (cloth). ~789969 . Park, Katbarine.SirretsofWomen: Corpus Christianorum Coniinuatio Prei'i (Shandong jiao yu chu ban she), Mandler, George. 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Then my graduate assistant 15<1" anniversary of the pubUcation of the Origin of oontads my first d.m msre iftbey will agrre to be a referee and he sends them a !pedes, so that's an obvious topic for a Focus sa:t:ion. blinDI~ · ~ mmmipt We~ our nterees six weeks. Ma.t are conscientious The Focus sections are now freely available on thellll' and om· cbhE. When they oo we can have a ckision for the ron tributor within Web site. It may facilitate their use as teaching tools (a mnm1Jt is twml 00\m, our nierees offer invaluable use that I frankly had not thought of originally). In am piD!. 1m'sDDe lllvire for potmtial oontributors: try to terms of the regular articles, we are going to encourage :ooid SIDling m spriai•l OIIIIOMyfr.aml articles. Submissions that are rontributors to submit shorter pitre>, so that we have able to make a case that d:Eir-..l lmller bistorical significanre (usually in the more variety in the format of the journal. 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