ISSN 0739-4934 Newsletter HISTORY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 35 NUMBER 2 April 2006 SOCIETY Who Is the HSS? ne of the happy byproducts of development work is on dozens of committees; we Olearning more about our members. The 2,500 award prizes for superior individuals in the History of Science Society come from scholarship and teaching; and, around the globe, representing a wide variety of most importantly, we foster research institutions, fields of education, and profes- interest in the history of sci- sions. A quarter live outside the United States, 16% are ence. In short, the HSS is students, with an equal percentage classified as retired. much more than Isis. The bulk of our members, some 64%, are regular But even with a wide members, with the remaining percentages designated array of services, the HSS, like as family members, sponsored scholars, or life mem- many academic societies, has bers (life memberships are no longer available). experienced a gradual decline But when we look closer at our group, more ques- in membership over the past tions emerge than answers. We do not know how many 10 years (see graph). Most of us are on the cusp of retirement, we do not know humanities societies report where many of us received our training, and we do not similar drops and the HSS is know what many of our members think of HSS servic- actually doing better than es. The major reason behind these gaps in knowledge many other sister societies in retaining members. For stated in her piece in the last Newsletter, we are look- is that the HSS has a tendency to track its members those who regularly attend the annual meetings, the ing to our members for specific ideas, and we have from the point of view of a subscription service, that is, overall trend in membership numbers may come as a instituted a long-range planning committee that will we look at individuals as subscribers to Isis rather than surprise. Long-time members will remember annual consider these ideas for implementation. With this as members of a professional society. This outlook can meetings where 350 attendees was the norm (older new-found knowledge, with our eyes on development, be traced back to the History of Science Society’s estab- members will remember conferences where everyone we hope to serve you better and provide the kinds of lishment in 1924. In order to insure the viability of Isis, fit in a modest-sized room). But the attendance trend programs that will help you in your own personal and which had struggled for survival since its inception in over the past ten years has been upward, with over professional development. 1912, George Sarton and others founded the HSS. The 600 registrants for the 2005 meeting in Minneapolis, strategy worked – Isis is now the most-respected jour- a positive sign that an increasingly higher percentage –Jay Malone nal in our field – but during its 82 years the HSS of members are coming to our conferences. evolved to provide its members with more than a copy But we must do more to serve our whole member- Contents of Isis. We publish a separate Current Bibliography as ship and to do that we need information from our a fifth issue of Isis, an annual issue of Osiris, the quar- members. To that end, the HSS has launched a short HSS Candidates 3 terly Newsletter, and many occasional publications; we online survey of our group, and I hope that you will News and Inquiries 7 host a Web site that lists information on jobs, confer- take a few minutes to answer the questions (please Jobs 8 ences, news, awards and prizes, graduate programs, click on the survey link at hssonline.org). We want to Awards, Honors, and Appointments 8 Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes 9 and other areas of interest in the field; we give mem- know when and where you received your degrees, when Future Meetings 10 bers access to the history of science, technology and you joined the HSS, where you work, and what the HSS Dissertations 11 medicine bibliographic database; we offer discount should be doing (or not doing). Our Committee on Donors 12 subscriptions to history of science journals, such as Research and the Profession is working on a longer, Isis Books Received 13 Annals of Science; we host an annual meeting; we detailed survey, and we hope that the current quick Ballot Form 16 provide members back issues of Isis and Osiris through assessment will help us generate better questions for a JSTOR; we coordinate hundreds of volunteers who serve more expansive effort. As HSS President Joan Cadden History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006

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(1996-1999). 2 3 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 Awards: 2005 Visiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Lancaster Spencer Weart, Director, Center for History of University; 2002-2007 NSF CAREER Grant for “Biology on Display: Museums and the Physics, American Institute of Physics, College Park, New Life Sciences in America.” Selected Publications: Making Mice: MD. Ph.D., University of Colorado (physics & astro- Nominating Committee at Large Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research (Princeton, 2004); physics), 1968; postdoctoral studies, University of Garland E. Allen, Professor of Biology, Washington Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack, and Pnina Abir-Am, eds. Creative Couples in the “Scientific Bio-Pics” and “Intelligent Design Causes Controversy at the Smithsonian:” California, Berkeley (history of science), 1971-1974. University in St. Louis, MO. Ph.D., Harvard University, Sciences (Rutgers U. Press, 1995). “The Botanical Exploration of California from articles for “Science Cinemathéque,” An on line exhibit for the Museum of the Moving HSS and Professional Activities: Council 1966. HSS and Professional Activities: HSS Menzies to Muir (1786-1900),” pp.194-242 in S. Field, ed., John Muir, Life and Image (New York); Ecology, Environment, and ‘Big Science’: An Annotated Member (1980-1983, 1990-1993); Treasurer (1984- Council (1995-1998); Chairman, Committee on Works (U. New Mexico Press, l987). “Are Research Schools Necessary? Contrasting Bibliography of the History of Environmental Research at Argonne National 1987); Finance Committee and Fund-Raising Research in the Profession (1997-98); International Models of 20th-Century Research led by Ross Granville Harrison, Grace E. Pickford Laboratory, 1940-1985 (published as ANL/Hist-4, Argonne National Laboratory Committee (1987-1993); Development Committee Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of and G. Evelyn Hutchinson.” J. History of Biology 36:3 (2003), 501-529. Recently Report, Dec 2005); “Revisiting Women, Feminism, and Developmental Biology” (with (2005-present); Committee on Honors and Prizes Biology, President (2005-2007); NIH-ELSI Panel (1993; completed book: G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology. Scott Gilbert, Biology, Swarthmore College), in Science, Medicine, Technology: The (1997-2000); Publications Committee (2000-2005); Editor (with Margaret C. Jacob), 2002-2003); Editorial Board, History and Philosophy Difference Feminism Has Made (Chicago, 2001). The Control of Nature, history of science book series, Humanities Press, 1995-1999; of the Life Sciences; Co-editor (with Jane Maienschein), New Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine, Harvard University Press, 2001- Journal of the History of Biology (1998-2005). present. Selected Publications: “The Birth and Growth of Sunspot Regions,” Darwin H. Stapleton, Executive Director, Selected Publications: “The Biological Basis of Crime: An Historical and David Rhees, Executive Director, (1992-present), Astrophysical Journal, 162 (1970): 987-992; Scientists in Power, Harvard University Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Ph.D., Methodological Study,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 31 The Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Press (1979); Nuclear Fear: A History of Images, Harvard University Press (1988); University of Delaware, 1975. Recent HSS and (No. 2, 2001): 183-222; Science, History and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987. Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics, ed. with Professional Activities: Member, HSS Finance HSS and Mendelsohn, co-edited with Roy M. MacLeod (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press, Chair, Committee on Lillian Hoddeson et al., Oxford University Press (1992); The Discovery of Global Committee (2004-2006); Member, HSS Development Professional Activities: 2002); “A Pact with the Embryo: Viktor Hamburger, Holistic and Mechanistic Warming, Harvard University Press, (2003) (Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Committee (2003-5); Chair, Ad hoc Ferguson Prize Education (current); local arrangements for HSS/ Philosophy in the Development of Neuroembryology, 1927-1955,” Journal of the Spanish translations); The Discovery of Global Warming, hypertext, Committee, Society for the History of Technology SHOT Minneapolis meeting (2005); Visiting Com- History of Biology 37 (2004): 421-475; The Department of Embryology at the www.aip.org/history/climate/ (2003-present ); producer and editor, AIP History (2004). Awards: John F. Lewis book award, American mittee, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention Carnegie Institution of Washington, A History, Jane Maienschein, Marie Glitz and Exhibit Hall, www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html (1998-present). Philosophical Society (1987). Selected and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution, (1997- Garland E. Allen, eds. (Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2005). present); SHOT Advisory Council (1997-present). Publications: (ed. and contrib.) Creating a Awards: Outstanding Paper Award, American Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of Rockefeller Chemical Society Division of History of Chemistry, 1995. Selected Publications: David B. Wilson, Professor of History and Abigail Lustig, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin. University (2004); (co-author) Dignity, Discourse and Destiny: The Life of “Earl Bakken’s Little White Box: The Complex Meanings of the First Transistorized Philosophy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Ph.D., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997. HSS and Professional Activities: Courtney C. Smith (2004); The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America Cardiac Pacemaker” (with Kirk Jeffrey). In Bernard Finn, ed., Exposing Electronics The Johns Hopkins University, 1968. HSS and Member of Isis editorial board (2002-2004). Selected Publications: A.J. Lustig, Robert (1987); (Editor) The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1980). (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000; “The Chemists’ War: The Professional Activities: Chair, HSS Visiting J. Richards and Michael Ruse, eds., Darwinian Heresies (Cambridge University Press: Impact of World War I on the American Chemical Profession,” Bulletin for the Historians of Science Program (1989-91); Program 2004); “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and History of Chemistry, nos. 13-14 (1992-93): 40-47. Co-editor with P. Heering and Co-Chair, HSS Annual Meeting (2001); President, Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004). John Harley Warner, Avalon Professor of the History O. Hochadel, Taming the Electrical Fire: A Cultural History of the Lightning Rod Midwest Junto (1985-86, 1994-95); Sigma Xi National of Medicine, Professor of History, and Professor of (submitted for publication). Lecturer (1987-88). Awards: Fellow, Institute for American Studies, Yale University. Ph.D., History of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh Mary Jo Nye, Horning Professor of the Humanities Science, Harvard University, 1984. HSS and University (1996-97); Senior Fellow, Dibner Institute and Professor of History, Oregon State University, Professional Activities: HSS, Chair Pfizer Prize Robert Smith, Professor of History, Department (1998, 2005-06). Selected Publications: Kelvin and Stokes: A Comparative Corvallis, OR. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1970. Committee (2006), Co-Chair Program Committee of History and Classics, University of Alberta. Study in Victorian Physics (Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987); “Galileo’s Religion Versus HSS and Professional Activities: President, HSS (2000), Chair Schuman Prize Committee (1992), past Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1979. HSS and the Church’s Science?” Physics in Perspective, 1 (1999), 65-84; “Enlightenment (1988-1989); HSS Nominating Committee (1992, member Isis and Osiris editorial boards; AAHM, Chair Professional Activities: Member NASA/ Scotland’s Philosophico-Chemical Physics,” in Wolfgang Lefevre, ed., Between 1995); Sarton Memorial Lecture (1999); HSS Distin- Welch Medal Committee (2001, 1994), Chair Lifetime American Historical Association Fellowship Newton, Leibniz, and Kant (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001), 129-145; “Arbiters of guished Lecture (2000); Chair, HSS CoRP (2004- Achievement Award Committee (2000), Chair Program Committee; Member, Program Committee, Victorian Science: G. G. Stokes and Joshua King,” in Kevin Knox and Richard Noakes, 2005); Fellow, AAAS; Nominating Committee, Section Committee (1998); past editorial board member Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy From Newton to Hawking (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 295- L, AAAS; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Social History of Medicine, Medical History, Journal of the History of Medicine. of Science; Member of Advisory Board, Center for 342; “G. G. Stokes, Scientist and Victorian,” http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/ Sciences; Corresponding Member, Académie Inter- Awards: HSS Derek Price Award (1993), AAHM Welch Medal (1991). Selected History of Physics (1993-1997); Member and webseminars/Stokes/. nationale d’Histoire des Sciences. Selected Publications: Blackett: Physics, War Publications; The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Chair of HSS Dibner Visiting Historians of Science and Politics in the 20th Century (Harvard University Press, 2004); Before Big Identity in America (1986; 1997); Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Committee (1991-1993). Awards: Charles A. Lindbergh Fellow, Smithsonian Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940 (Harvard Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (1998; 2003); co-editor, Major Problems in Institution (2007); McCalla Professor University of Alberta (2005-2006); OSIRIS ADDED AS NEW MEMBER BENEFIT! University pbk., 1999); Ed. Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 5 of the History of American Medicine and Public Health (2001); co-editor, Locating National Humanities Center Fellow (1992-1993); HSS’s Watson Davis Prize The Cambridge History of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Medical History (2004). (1990) for The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology and Politics. Selected Publications: “The History of Space Astronomy,” in The Beginning in 2006, the History of Science Society will add a new benefit to New Astronomy (2005), 215-228; “Who Discovered the Expanding Universe?” all memberships: the latest volume of Osiris. Founded in 1936 by George Nancy G. Slack, Professor of Biology, The Sage (with Helge Kragh) History of Science, 41(2003), 141-162; “The Remaking Sarton, and re-launched by the HSS in 1985, this annual thematic journal Colleges, Troy, NY. Ph.D., State University of New York, of Astronomy,” Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 5. (2003), 154-173; The highlights recent research on significant themes in the history of science. Albany, 1971. HSS and Professional Activities: ElectionElection BallotBallot onon Cambridge Network in Action,” Isis, 80(1989), 395-422. Smith also co-edited The paper edition of Osiris, Volume 21, “Historical Perspectives on Science, Chair, Forum For the History of Science in America; Reconsidering Sputnik (2000). Technology, and International Affairs,” will mail late summer 2006. organized HSS sessions on Thomas Huxley; Women in Science; Creative Couples in the Sciences; Co-organized pagepage 1616 sessions for ISHPSB (Quinnipiac College, CT 2001) and XIX International Congress of History of Science,) Zaragosa, Spain, 1993; Selected Publications: 4 5 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 News and Inquiries Nominating Committee from Council Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Curator of Mathematics, National Museum of Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. J.L. Heilbron [et al.] “History of Science in the United States” Web Site The Social Medicine Reader American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Ph.D., Yale (Oxford and New York, 2003), 845-849 (with Henry E. Lowood); “The Scientific A subject-accessible bibliography of books and dissertations has been added covering Duke University Press announces the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine University (1979). HSS and Professional Activities: HSS Council (1991- Book as a Cultural and Bibliographical Object,” in Thornton and Tully's Scientific the colonial period to the 21st century. Visit the site at: home.earthlink.net/~claelliott/. Reader. For more information, http://www.combinedacademic.demon.co.uk. 1993, 2006- ), Women’s Committee Co-Chair (1996-1997), Editorial Board of Isis Books, Libraries, and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade (1997-1999), Committee on Honors and Prizes (2006- ). Also on the advisory in Relation to the History of Science, ed. Andrew Hunter (Brookfield, Vermont, The Wellcome Trust Centre New Web Site CFP: History of Meteorology 3 board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and a member of the 1999), 1-25; “Shaping Information: Mathematics, Computing, and Typography,” Visit at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed. Papers on the history of meteorology, climatology, and related sciences are now being American Physical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. in Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, accepted for consideration in History of Meteorology 3 (2006). Articles should be Selected Publications: “Women Astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930,” Isis, ed. Timothy Lenoir (Stanford, California, 1998), 39-54; plus library publications. New Book Notice: William Stimpson’s Journal based on original research and should present a novel thesis. Deadline for submissions September, 1984; (with Paul Ceruzzi), Landmarks in the History of Digital The Carcinological Society of Japan has just published a hardcover book containing for volume three is 1 September 2006. Queries or manuscripts should be directed to Computing, A Smithsonian Pictorial History (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian William Stimpson’s journal from the U. S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition 1853- James R. Fleming, e-mail [email protected]. Institution Press, 1994); and (with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David L. Alan Rocke, Bourne Professor and Chair, Depart- 1856. The book is available for 3,000 yen from the Carcinological Society of Japan. Roberts), Material to Learn: Changing Tools of American Mathematics ment of History, Case Western Reserve University; also Fax: (81) 3-5463-0684 or e-mail [email protected]. History of Meteorology 2 Published Teaching, 1800-2000 (in preparation). Director, Program in History & Philosophy of Science. History of Meteorology 2, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975. HSS Commission on History of Meteorology has just been published on the ICHM and Professional Activities: Past service on Biography of Anselm Windhausen Available Online home page http://www.meteohistory.org. The URL for this issue of the journal Marsha Richmond, Associate Professor of Science Council (1990-92), Local Arrangements, Program, Biography of noted German-Argentine scientist Anselm Windhausen (1882-1932) is is http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/. and Technology, Department of Interdisciplinary Pfizer and Derek Price Prize Committees; Isis Advisory now available at http://awindhausen.blogspot.com. Studies, Wayne State University. Ph.D., Indiana Editor (1997-2000). Selected Publications: University, 1986. HSS and Professional Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio New Interdisciplinary Program in HPS at Duke History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Network Activities: Advisory Committee, Correspondence of State University Press, 1984); The Quiet Revolution Duke University has established a new interdisciplinary graduate certificate program in The purpose of the HPSM listserv is to create a network for researchers with links to the Charles Darwin; Advisory Board: NTM, History and (University of California Press, 1993), Nationalizing Science (MIT Press, 2001), “The History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (HPSTM). For more north of England who are interested in topics broadly relevant to the history and phi- Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and Journal of the Reception of Chemical Atomism in Germany,” Isis, 70 (1979); “Research Groups and information: http://philosophy.duke.edu/hpstm/. losophy of science and medicine (including bioarchaeology and palaeopathology). To History of Biology. Selected Publications: “The Group Research in German Chemistry: Kolbe’s Marburg and Leipzig Institutes,” Osiris, join, send an e-mail to Dr. Matthew D. Eddy ([email protected]). ‘Domestication’ of Heredity: The Familial Organization [2] 8 (1993), 51-79; “History and Science, History of Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital Collection Project of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895-1910,” Renovation of the Academic Professions in France,” Ambix, 41 (1994), 20-32; Complete forthcoming, Journal of the History of Biology; “The Cell as the Basis for Heredity, “Origins and Spread of the ‘Giessen Model’ in University Science, 1826-1876,” Ambix, The Pennsylvania Hospital’s Historic Collections has made accessible the materials in In Memoriam: David E. Pingree Development, and Evolution: Richard Goldschmidt’s Program of Physiological 50 (2003), 90-115; “Restaging Liebig: A Study in the Replication of Experiments,” the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital Collection, which provide a unique perspective avid E. Pingree, 72, chairman of the Department of the History of Mathematics Genetics,” forthcoming in From Embryology to Evo-Devo, ed. Jane Maienschein Annals of Science, 62 (2005), 1-55 (with three co-authors). on the treatment of psychological disorders and mental illness. For further informa- at Brown University, passed away 11 November 2005, in the Miriam Hospital. and Manfred D. Laubichler (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press); “Women in the Early D tion: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/collections/finding/arrangement.html. Professor Pingree was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover and Harvard History of Genetics: William Bateson and the Newnham College Mendelians, 1900- University, where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. 1910,” Isis, 92 (2001): 55-90; “T. H. Huxley’s Criticism of German Cell Theory: An New Address for HOPOS Web Site Following college, he became keenly interested in the transmission of scientific ideas Epigenetic and Physiological Interpretation of Cell Structure,” Journal of the History Reminder: The Isis Bibliography from 1975 to the present is available HOPOS, the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, can now be from one culture to another. of Biology, 33 (2000): 247-289; “‘A Lab of One’s Own’: The Balfour Biological online with the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Members of the Society may found at http://cas.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos. Professor Pingree had been a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914,” Isis, 88 (1997): 422-455. access the RLG Web site and the History of Science and Technology Database and joined the faculty at Brown University in 1971, becoming Chairman of the (HST) through the HSS homepage at http://hssonline.org. RLG has assigned New Web Site – History of Science on the Internet Department in 1986. He was widely published, including many Sanskrit astronomi- Robin E. Rider, Curator of Special Collections (in us “Y6.G19” as a “User Name” and “HSSDEMO” as a “Password.” cal tables, catalogues of thousands of manuscripts, a Census on the Exact Sciences in the General Library System) and Senior Lecturer in Important Internet resources for the history of science can be found at Sanskrit, and the Latin translation of the Arabic Picatrix among others. Some 43 History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://ppp.unipv.it/dhs/history.htm#Anchor-28022. books and monographs and 240 articles have appeared under his name. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1980. HSS He was the recipient of countless scholarly awards including a Guggenheim Advisory board to Neptune-Discovery Correspondence Database and Professional Activities: Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 1992 he received an Honorary Degree of the Society Bibliographer (2002- present); Committee Future HSS Meetings An online database of correspondence on the discovery of Neptune is available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/nk/neptune-corr.htm. Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of on Publications (1995-2000, chair 1999-2000); the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a member of both the American Council (1993-1996); Nominating Committee (1993- Vancouver, BC Temporary Closure of the Royal Astronomical Society Philosophical Society and the Institute for Advanced Study and was the co-founder of 1994); Committee on Research and the Profession the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study. He established the (Joint Meeting with PSA, 2-5 Nov. 2006) (1989-1991); Committee on Diversity (1989-1993, Library and Archives American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts in 1994 with the goal of catalogu- chair 1990); Curator of Special Collections, General Library System, University of It is likely that the whole collection in the main part of Burlington House will ing all the Arabic, Persian and Indian manuscripts in North America and elsewhere. Wisconsin, Madison (1996- present); teaching appointment in the Department of Washington, DC be moved out into storage in late 2006 for as long as a year. Staff will provide a In 2004 a volume was edited and published by some of his former students and History of Science (1996- present); bibliographer for history of science (2000- pres- restricted service. (1-4 Nov. 2007) several colleagues entitled Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honor of ent); associate director for collection development, management, and preservation David Pingree. (2002-2003); acting university archivist (2000-2002); Frances and Charles Field History of Science Dissertations Online A memorial service was held 17th March in Manning Chapel on the campus of Curator of Special Collections, with adjunct teaching appointment in the Program History of Science dissertations can be found at: http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/ Brown University. 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Fax: 514.398.1498. “Library” or “Research.” text and images) to the “Annals of the Institute and Museum of History of Science” Student Prize for an Essay in the History of Australian Science The Victor and Joy Wouk Grant-in-Aid Program (1976-1986), to its seven monographic issues, and to the whole collection of Nuncius Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) invites applications to the position of The National Museum of Australia, the Australian Academy of California Institute of Technology Grants-in-Aid offers research assistance of from 1986 until 2002 (2nd issue). Each issue will be fully available online three years Science and its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Archivist in the Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education. Require- up to $2000 for work in the Papers of Victor Wouk in the Caltech Archives. The Maurice after its publishing date. Please see http://www.imss.fi.it/istituto/nuncius. have established two essay prizes, to be known respectively as The National ments: M.A. in history or M.L.I.S. with emphasis in archival studies, Certified Archivist A. Biot Archives Fund and other designated funds offer research assistance up to $1500 to Science status preferred; three years experience; experience with donors and moving of use the collections of the Caltech Archives. Applications will be accepted from students – Museum of Australia Student Prize for the History of Australian Science and The Call for Writers: History of Scientific Thought archival collections. E-mail cover letter, c.v. and contact information for three refer- working towards a graduate degree – or from established scholars. Please consult the National Museum of Australia Student Prize for Australian Environmental History. Essays are requested for a new, three-volume guide to topics in the history of science to ences by 28 April to: Jennifer Landry, Head of Collections at jenniferl@chemher- Archives’ Web page: http://archives.caltech.edu. Applications are reviewed quarterly: on Each prize will be a certificate and $2,500. The prizes will be awarded for original be published by the Gale Group. The History of Scientific Thought is designed to help itage.org. For further information, see http://www.chemheritage.org. January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year. unpublished research undertaken whilst enrolled as a student (postgraduate or high-school and early college-age students develop an understanding of the history undergraduate) at any tertiary educational institution. Essays must be written in behind scientific concepts. The encyclopedia will contain approximately 120 signed The Appalachian State University Faculty Fellow Program offers tenure The University of Oklahoma Travel Fellowship Program English and fully documented following the style specified for the Australian entries, ranging in length from 4,500 to 8,000 words. Contact Tom and Sara track position. Qualifications include: terminal degree (Ph.D.), record of or evidence The Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship Program helps visitors to make use of the Academy of Science’s journal, Historical Records of Australian Science. The prizes Pendergast at [email protected]. of teaching potential, scholarship, service, and a strong commitment to promoting University’s History of Science Collections. Proposals from scholars at both predoctoral and will be awarded in alternate years in May. Deadline for the initial prize, a history of diversity. Submit application, c.v., and five references by 28 April to: Ms. Darlene postdoctoral levels will be evaluated continuously upon receipt, and funds awarded shortly science prize, is 30 April 2006. Entries should be sent to: Librarian, Australian Stuart Pierson Memorial Fund Keynote Presentation Risk, B.B. Dougherty Administration Building, Appalachian State University, Boone, after the decision is made. For information, please contact: University of Oklahoma, The Academy of Science, GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, to be received by North Carolina 28608. For further information: http://www.history.appstate.edu. Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship Program, Bizzell Library, 401 West Brooks, Room the closing date. Inquiries should be sent to: [email protected]. 521, Norman, OK 73019-0528, e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. Web site: http://libraries.ou.edu/etc/histsci/mellon.asp. Lawrence Memorial Award Awards, Honors, and The Award Committee of the Lawrence Memorial Fund invites nomina- Grants in Aid for History of Modern Physics tions for the 2006 Lawrence Memorial Award. The annual Award ($2,000) is given to The Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics has support travel for doctoral dissertation research in systematic botany or horticulture, Appointments a program of grants-in-aid for research in the history of modern physics and allied sci- or the history of the plant sciences. Professors are urged to nominate outstanding ences and their social interactions. Grants can be up to $2,000 each and will be given doctoral students who have achieved official candidacy for their degrees. The Com- Stephen G. Brush, Professor of the History of Science at the University of only to reimburse expenses for travel and subsistence to use the resources of the Center’s mittee will not entertain direct applications. Letters of nomination and supporting Maryland, College Park, has been elected a member of the Académie Internationale Niels Bohr Library in College Park, Maryland, or expenses including travel and subsis- d’Histoire des Sciences. tence to tape-record oral history interviews or microfilm archival materials, with a copy materials, including seconding letters, should be received by the Committee by 1 for deposit in the Library. Applicants should either be working toward a graduate degree May 2006. Send to: Dr. R. W. Kiger, Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Klaus Hentschel (Berne, currently substitute professor for history of science and in the history of science (please include a letter of reference from a thesis adviser), or Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA. Tel. 1.412. 268.2434. technology at the University of Stuttgart) was elected corresponding member of the show a record of publication in the field. To apply, send a vitae, a letter of no more than Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences. two pages describing your research project, and a brief budget showing the expenses for SHOT Seeks Nominations for the 2006 Dibner Award which support is requested to: Spencer Weart, Center for History of Physics, American The Society for the History of Technology invites nominations for its Dibner Photo of Stuart Pierson received courtesy Marjorie Malley Michelle Nijhuis of High Country News has won the 2006 Walter Sullivan Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. E-mail: sweart@ Award 2006. This award is for excellence in museums and museum exhibits that The Midwest Junto for the History of Science is pleased to announce the first Award for Excellence in Science Journalism (Features) awarded by the American aip.org. Phone: (301) 209-3174. Fax: (301) 209-0882. The deadlines for receipt of appli- interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public. A Stuart Pierson Memorial Fund keynote presentation. Bill Ashworth of the Geophysical Union. Nijhuis is being recognized for a three-part series with the over- cations are 15 April and 15 November of each year. http://www.aip.org/history/. nomination form is available at http://shot.press.jhu.edu/Awards/Dibnernomform06. University of Missouri at Kansas City will initiate the Memorial presentations at all title, “Hot Times: Global Warming in the West.” htm. For more information, please visit http://www.nrm.org.uk/locomotion/index.asp. the 2006 annual Junto meeting, to be held April 28-30 in Madison, Wisconsin. INA Grant-in-Aid Program Long time Junto member Stuart Pierson of Memorial University, St. Johns, The International Neuropsychopharmacology Archives (INA) Duncan M. Porter of Blacksburg, Virginia, professor of botany in the College of John C. Burnham Early Career Award Newfoundland, distinguished himself to Junto members by his witty and stimu- announces the availability of grants of up to $1,500 to support research at the INA Science at Virginia Tech, has been selected for a Lifetime Achievement in Science The Forum for the History of Human Science invites submissions for its John lating presentations of papers which combined unique approaches with histori- at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Award for 2006 by the Science Museum of Virginia. One of Porter’s most notable con- C. Burnham Early Career Award for 2006. Submit manuscript and c.v. by 30 April cal insight. Original and creative, Stuart brought a spirit of fun to the meetings. Applications must include a hard copy of: a one-page description of the project, tributions to science has been his leading role in the Darwin Correspondence Project. 2006. There is a $500 honorarium. The FHHS also invites submissions for its The Midwest Junto created the Stuart Pierson Memorial Fund to promote creative with specific reference to the archival collections to be consulted; detailed budget; Dissertation Award, awarded every other year for the best recent dissertation on some applicant’s c.v.; one letter of recommendation from a scholar familiar with the and original participation at the annual Junto meetings in the spirit of Stuart’s aspect of the history of the human sciences. The monetary award is $100. Submit The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announces Carol Ann applicant’s work. Grants will be given four times a year. Deadlines are:1 March, 1 presentations. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the fund, three copies by 1 June 2006. For both awards, send to: Nadine Weidman, Secretary of Stamm, M.D., FACOG as the recipient of the year 2006 ACOG Fellowship in the June, 1 September, 1 December. 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History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 Society for the History of Natural History’s Natural Science in the New World: Negotiating the Sacred III: Religion, Medicine and the Body, 2-3 November. The Descriptive Enterprise, 21-24 September 2006, Montreal, Canada; Canberra, Australia; http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/Sacred%20in%20Medicine/index.php. Future Meetings http://www.mcgill.ca/redpath. The following announcements have been edited for space. For full descriptions and the latest announcements, please visit our Web site (http://www.hssonline.org). BSHM 2006. Health and Medicine in History: East-West Exchange, 2-4 November, 2006, The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of any item; interested persons should verify all details. Those who wish to publish a future meeting The Commerce and Politics of Science, 21-24 September 2006, Notre Dame; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Contact D. Kumar at [email protected]. announcement should send an electronic version of the posting to [email protected]. http://www.nd.edu/~reilly/compolsci.html. History of Science Society, joint meeting with PSA, 2-5 November 2006. Vancouver, B.C., Calls for Papers Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. York University, Toronto, Endangered Species in Glass: The Blaschka Models. The Dublin Blaschka Canada; http://hssonline.org. Africa’s Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems. Second international confer- Ontario, 29-31 May 2006; http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/ and http://www.fedcan.ca/. Congress will take place 28-30 September; http://www.ucd.ie/blaschka. ence on Africa’s indigenous science and knowledge systems, to be held 24 October 2006. 2006 PSA Biennial Meeting joint meeting with HSS will be held 2-5 November 2006 in Abstract dealine: April 28; http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=148714. Linnaeus in Italy: The Spread of a Botanical Revolution. Botanical Garden, 22nd Baltic Conference on the History of Science, 5-7 October 2006, Vilnius, Vancouver, British Columbia; http://philsci.org/PSA06/. University of Pisa (Italy), 6-9 June 2006; http://www.imss.fi.it/news/elinnaeus.html. Lithuania; http://www.kfmi.lt/eng/conf/baltconf/baltconf.htm. “The Documentary Tradition” at the 2006 Film and History League 4S Conference, 2-5 November 2006, Vancouver, Canada; http://www.4sconference.org/. Conference. To be held 8-12 November 2006 in the Dolce Conference Center near the Dallas- Historical Perspectives on “Erklären” and “Verstehen.” Max-Planck Institute for the SHOT 2006 will be will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, 12-16 October 2006; Fort Worth airport. Proposal deadline: 15 August. Send inquiries and proposals to Dr. Tim Boon, History of Science, Berlin, 9-11 June 2006; http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/forschung/proj- http://www.shot.jhu.edu/Annual_Meeting/Annual_Meeting_Main_Page.htm. Food Chains: Provisioning, Technology, and Science, 3-4 November 2006. Contact Head of Collections, The Science Museum, London SW7 2DD. Phone: (44) 20.7942.4207; fax: ects/DepIII_UljanaFeestErklaerenVerstehen/ index_html. Carol Lockman: [email protected]. (44) 20.7942.4103; e-mail: [email protected]; http://www.filmandhistory.org. “Technology, Environment and Work” – Twenty-Eighth Annual North Close Encounters, the Fourth European Biennial Conference of the Society American Labor History Conference. Wayne State University, 19-21 October 2006. Science within the State. Berlin, 9-11 November 2006. Contact organizers Axel C. for Science, Literature and the Arts will be held 13-16 June 2006, Amsterdam. Contact Contact Professor Janine Lanza, e-mail: [email protected]. Huentelmann ([email protected]) or Dr. Michael C. Schneider Upcoming Conferences Manuela Rossini at [email protected]; http://www.slsa.nl. Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology. Massachusetts Institute of ([email protected]). Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, 7-8 April 2006. Agrarian Societies Annual Meeting 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 15-17 June 2006; http://agriculturalhistory.ualr.edu/. Call for Participation: ‘Toward a History and Philosophy of Expertise.’ The Dissertations List Chemical Heritage Foundation will host a workshop, “Toward a History and Philosophy of The list below reflects information provided by Dr. Jonathon Erlen (only dissertation titles placed in Dissertation Abstracts are included) and others and was current as of 1 October 2005. Sixth HOPOS/SPS Conference 2006. To be held Paris, France, 14-18 June 2006 at the Expertise” on 7-8 April 2006, as part of the 2006 Cain Conference. Please send any missing titles to [email protected]. École normale supérieure, Paris; http://www.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos/. Bertolacci, Amos. “The Reception of Aristotle’s Jones, Jeffrey Jacob. “The World was our Garden: Mathematics: Naturalism.” Cornell University, 2005, 202 Gödel Centenary 2006: Horizons of Truth-Logics, Foundations of Mathematics, and the Society for the Social History of Medicine: Practices and Representations of ‘Metaphysics’ in Avicenna’s ‘Kitab al-Sifa’: Textual and United States Plant Introduction, Empire, and Industrial pages. 3162500. Quest for Understanding the Nature of Knowledge, 7-29 April 2006, Festsaal of the University Health: Historical Perspectives will take place 28-30 June 2006 at the University of Doctrinal Analysis.” Yale University, 2005, 493 pages. Agri(culture), 1898–1948.” Purdue University, 2004, 547 of Vienna; http://www.logic.at/goedel2006/. Warwick; http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/activities/conferences/sshm2006/. 3168858. pages. 3166642. Rombeiro, Michael E. “Intelligible Species in some Late Thirteenth-Century Theories of Cognition.” The Catholic Mephistos 2006. Graduate student conference in history, philosophy, and sociology of science, Philosophies of Technology: Bacon and his Contemporaries will be held in Boschiero, Luciano Augusto. “Natural Philosophy Kamatani, Pamela M. “Science, Metaphysics, and the University of America, 2005, 288 pages. 3169871. technology and medicine. University of Chicago 7-9 April 2006; http://mephistos.uchicago.edu. Frankfurt am Main, 7-8 July, 2006; http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/ZFN/. Inside the Mid- to Late- Seventeenth-Century Tuscan Court: Late Works of J. S. Bach.” University of California, Berkeley, The History of the Accademia del Cimento.” University of 2004, 305 pages. 3167202. Rose, Anne Christina. “Children’s Moral Culture and Con/texts of Invention: A Working Conference of the Society for Critical 2006 BSHS Conference will take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury 7-9 July 2006; Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 20-22 April 2006; New South Wales (Australia), 2005. the Experimental Human Sciences in Britain, France and http://www.bshs.org.uk/conf/butlereyles.html. http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/IPCA_main.html. Lee, Kyu Sang. “Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Italy, 1748-1899.” The Johns Hopkins University, 2005, 461 Casey, Kathleen. “Noise Making Subjects.” University of Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith’s pages. 3172683. International Conference on the History of Alchemy and Chymistry. 49th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society. California, San Diego, 2005, 274 pages. 3170240. Experimental Economics.” University of Notre Dame, 2005, Philadelphia, 19-22 July 2006; http://www.chemheritage.org/events/alchemy/ index.html. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 28-30 April 2006; http://www.histsci.wisc.edu/junto. 312 pages. 3171624. Rosen, Mark S. “The Cosmos in the Palace: The Palazzo Curiel, Erik. “Three Papers on How Physics Bears on Vecchio Guardaroba and the Culture of Cartography in Early The Science and History of Evolutionary Theory. A panel on the science and history Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Annual Philosophy, and How Philosophy Bears on Physics.” The McBride, Ryan Kenneth. “Eikos Logos and Eikos Modern Florence, 1563-1589.” University of California, of evolutionary theory as part of the 10th conference of the International Society for the Study Meeting will be held 3 May 2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia; http://www.hssonline.org. University of Chicago, 2005, 335 pages. 3168334. Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato’s Berkeley, 2004, 659 pages. 3167217. of European Ideas, University of Malta, 24-29 July 2006; http://issei2006.haifa.ac.il. Timaeus.” Marquette University, 2005, 256 pages 3172491. Remaking Boston. The Massachusetts Historical Society conference on the environmental Grandi, Giovanni Battista. “Thomas Reid’s Theory of Seay, Cameron W. “Intelligence Assessment of the 31st Symposium of the International Commission on the History of history of Boston to be held 4-6 May 2006. Vision.” The University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2004, Melamed, Yitzhak Y. “The Metaphysics of Substance American Negro, 1913-1945: A Socio-Cultural Geological Sciences will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 28 July to 4 August 2006. Contact 199 pages. NQ96820. and the Metaphysics of Thought in Spinoza (Benedictus de Recapitulation.” Georgia State University, 2004, 201 pages. Prof. Dr. Hab. Algimantas Grigelis at [email protected]. American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting. Halifax, Spinoza).” Yale University, 2005, 208 pages. 3168950. 3166986. Nova Scotia, Canada, 4-7 May 2006; http://histmed.org. Hecht, David K. “Tumult in the Clouds: Robert 10th North Atlantic Fisheries History Association will be held in Bremerhaven Oppenheimer and American Science.” Yale University, 2005, Murray, Narisara. “Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Seker, Hayati. “The Effect of Using the History of Science (Germany) 7-11 August 2006. Contact Dr. Ingo Heidbrink at [email protected]. Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Environment, May 4-7, 2006 at the German 298 pages. 3168908. Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of in Science Lessons on Meaningful Learning.” The Ohio Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.;http://www.ghi-dc.org/events_upcoming.html. London, 1850-1897.” Indiana University, 2004, 338 pages. State University, 2004, 253 pages. 3159936. The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 33rd Symposium in Leicester, U.K., 15 - 20 August 2006. Hottinger, Sara Noelle. “Social Processes of Proof: A 3162254. 9th International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Feminist Approach to Mathematical Knowledge Wassmann, Claudia. “The Science of Emotion: Studying Technology (PCST-9). Seoul, Korea, 17-20 May 2006; http://www.pcst2006.org. Society for the History of Psychology’s 114th Annual Meeting will be held 10-13 Production.” University of Minnesota, 2005, 167 pages Reid, Mandy Aimil. “‘A Most Terrible Spectacle’: Emotions in Germany, France, and the United States, 1860- August 2006, in New Orleans, Louisiana; http://www.apa.org/convention06/. 3172811. Visualizing Racial Science in American Literature and 1920.” The University of Chicago, 2005, 313 pages. 3168411. The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art. Simon Culture, 1839-1929.” Rice University, 2005, 206 pages. Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada 17-20 May 2006; History of the Food Chain – from Agriculture to Consumption and Waste. Szent Jack, Jordynn Marguerite. “Rhetorics of Time: 3168131. Wickhorst, Vickie. “A Four-act Play: Philosophy and http://www.sfu.ca/conferences/infinite_genealogy. István University, Gödöllö, near Budapest, 31 August - 3 September 2006; http://www.euchems- Women’s Role in Wartime Science, 1939–1945.” The Science. The Impact on Management Theory and Practice.” Budapest2006.hu. Pennsylvania State University, 2005, 264 pages. 3172978. Rivett, Sarah. “Evidence of Grace: The Science of the Soul Colorado State University, 2005, 727 pages. 3173098. Technology and Rethinking European Borders. The Second Plenary Conference of in Colonial New England.” The University of Chicago, 2005, the Tensions of Europe Network and launch of the Tensions of Europe Research Program will Second European Society for the History of Science International Jaffer, Tariq. “Fahr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210): 348 pages. 3168383. Widders, Evan. “Science, Medicine, and Criollo Culture take place 25-28 May 2006 at Lappeenranta University of Technology, South Karelian Conference. Cracow, 6-9 September 2006; http://www.eshs.org. Philosopher and Theologian as Exegete.” Yale University, in Late-Colonial New Spain (Mexico).” University of Institute, Lappeenranta, Finland; http://www.lut.fi/eki/TOE2006/. 2005, 232 pages. 3168917. Roland, Jeffrey Wells. “Toward an Epistemology of California, Santa Barbara, 2005, 247 pages. 3161540. 10 10 11 11 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006 History of Science Society Newsletter April 2006

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