ISSN 0739-4934 -~EWSLETTER I IISTORY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2 April 2000 SOCIETY

THE AMERICANIZATION OF T HE SOCIETY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Ronald L. Numbers, HSS President

anuary 1, 2000, not looked on America primarily ARTICLES ON AMERICAN SCIENCE only ushered in what J asasceneof scientific"failure," IN Isis BY DECADE many consider a new which he charitably attributed 1930s 17 millennium but also a to indifference to research and 1940s 13 new era in the History of weak minds. 1950s 23 Science Society. For the The first call for greater 1960s 12 first time since its attention to American 1970s 29 founding in 1924 all of scientific developments came 1980s 35 the executive officers of 1990s 43 the society are from Shryock. Writing in Isis Americanises, as is the in 1944, he sought to carve out a distinctive space for American executive director. For science-in American history. "The value of studies in the history of Americanises, who long American science is not to be found primarily in contributions to the felt marginalized in the history of science as such," he wrote, "but rather to the history of the RONALD L. NUMBERS HSS, this represents a United States." Inspired by the American-made atomic bomb, the distinguished Harvard historian Arthur M. Schlesinger similarly gratifying turn of events. But there is nothing revolutionary about it. argued that American historians should explore the external connections During the first half-century of the HSS few American historians between science and participated in the society and fewer still served as officers. Of the first society rather than the 37 presidents of the society, whose terms spanned the years 1924 to internal development 1992, only one, the historian of medicine Richard H. Shryock (1940- CONTENTS of scientific theory. 42), was primarilyanAmericanist. George Sanon may have published Thirty-five years April 2000 the odd essay on science in America during his 40-year tenure as editor ago, when I looked into of Isis, but he never took American science seriously. Certainly he felt the possibility of Joint Meeting 3-7 no need to appoint an advisory editor for that specialty, recognition working on American that did not come until the early 1970s. HSS Elections 8-11 science rn the The early cultivators of the history of American science found it department of the News & Inquiries 12-13, 15 difficult to justify their specialty at a time when most historians of history of science at science were exploring the period before the U.S. was even born. Awards, Honors, & Wisconsin, I was told Mainstream historians of science, who stressed the transnational Appointments 14 that my interests were nature of scientific knowledge and celebrated contributions of better suited to the Jobs, Fellowships, international significance, typically prized scientific expertise more Grants & Prizes 16-17 history department. lan historical sophistication. Sarron's former student I. Bernard Eventually, I went to ohen, who devoted a major book to Benjamin Franklin, one of the Future Meetings 18-20 Berkeley to work with few Americans worthy of inclusion in the history of science proper, ISIS Books Received 20-23 A. Hunter Dupree, a Schlesinger student HSS Ballot 24 2 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER APRIL 2000 and one of the few Americanists actively training graduate students in History of Science Society Executive Office the history of science. Bur even he felt beleaguered. As Charles Rosenberg described the situation in the late 1960s, "The historian of University of Washington American science is not fully accepted as either an American historian Box 351330 or an historian of science. Most American historians are simply Seattle, Washington 98195-1330 indifferent to the field; but beyond this, more than a few historians of Phone: 206/543-9366 science are openly scornful." Fax: 206/685-9544 In the late 1970s a small group of second-generation Americanists-Clark Elliott, Michele Aldrich, Sally Kohlstedt, e-mail: [email protected] Margaret Rossiter, Stanley Guralnick, Marc Rothenberg, and 1- Web site: http:!ldepts.washington.edu/hssexec/ began getting together at meetings of the HSS to discuss common Physical address (Fed-Ex, UPS): interests. Shortly after these get-togethers began, a well-meaning Johnson Hall, Room 226 colleague warned me that I risked damaging my professional reputation University of Washington by associating with such marginal people. Kohlstedt later became the Seattle, Washington 98195-1330 second Americanist elected to the presidency of the HSS (1992-93), Subscription Inquiries: ISIS and HSS Newsletter Rossiter assumed the editorship of Isis in 1994, and Rothenberg Please contact the University of Chicago Press directly, at: accepted an appointment as treasurer. From this enterprise came the [email protected], (fax) 773/753-0811, or write Forum for the History of Science in America, which now represents University of Chicago Press, Subscription Fulfillment Manager, the largest interest group in the HSS. P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. The efflorescence of American science in the HSS has owed as Moving? much to changes in the history of science generally as to the conscious Please notify both the HSS Executive Office and the University efforts of its practitioners. The dramatic shift in interest toward the of Chicago Press at the above addresses. past two centuries, the increasing attention to place, the virtual erasure HSS Newsletter Editorial Policies, Advertising, and Submissions of the longstanding internalist-externalist divide, and the emergence The History ofScience Society Newsletter is published in January of the U.S. as a scientific powerhouse all played contributing roles. As April, July, and October, and sent to all individual members of the the historiography ofscience became more critical than celebratory, it Society; those who reside ourside ofNorthAmerica pay an additional created more room for America's "failures. " $5 annually to cover a portion of first-class airmail charges. The Having moved from the basement to the boardroom of the HSS, Newsletter is available to nonmembers and institutions for $25 a we Americanists have just cause for celebration, but others need not year. fear that evil lurks. We may focus our attention on the United States, The Newsletter is edited and desktop published by Melissa but our interests and approaches are as varied as those of other 0 liver in the Executive Office on an Apple Power Macintosh system historians of science. And we remain as strongly committed as Sarton using Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker.The format and editorial policies are determined by the Executive Director in ever was to fostering a truly international sociery hospitable to the consultation with the HSS Executive Committee. All advertising exploration of science in every age, in every nation. copy must be submitted camera-ready. Advertisements are accepted on a space-available basis only, and the Society reserves the right not to accept a submission. The rates are as follows: Full page (9 x 7.5"), $350; Half page (4.5 x 7.5''), $200; Quarter page (3 x 5"), $100. The deadline for insertion orders and REMEMBER TO VOTE! camera-ready copy is six weeks prior to the month ofpublication BALLOTS DUE 31MAY2000. (e. g., November 15 for the January Newsletter) and should be sent to the attention of the HSS Executive Office at the above address. 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FOURTH BRITISH-NORTH Nasry Iskander, Egyptian Mueseum, Egypt 1:30-3:10P.M. AMERICAN MEETING OF Commentator: Hamed A. Ead, Cairo BSHS, CSHPS, & HSS University, Egypt MATHEMATICS AND ART IN THE SCIENTIFIC Chair: TBA REVOLUTION PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, SCIENTIFIC WAYS OF SEEING: A RE-VISION* Please note that this program is subject to Needed Revision in the History of Science Anke te Heesen, Max-Planck-Institut for change. For the latest program, please visit and Art: The Case of] an Van Eyck Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Closed and http:!/depts. washington. edu!hssexec/2000/ Renzo Baldasso, University of Oklahoma, transparent orders: How the furniture of program.html Galileo's Dialogo and Scheiner's Rosa Ursina collections was seen in the Enlightenment Katherine L. Neal, University ofSydney and *Emma Spary, Max-Planck-Institut fur John Schuster, UniversityofNewSouth Wales, THURSDAY, 3 AUGUST Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, By design: Shell Practical Mathematics and Narratives of the 6:00-7 :OOP .M. prints and an 'aesthetics' of scientific illustration in 18th-century Europe Chair: TBA KEYNOTE ADDRESS Anne Secord, Department of History and TALL TALES AND SHORT STORIES: Philosophy ofScience, Cambridge, Botany on SCIENCE AND RELIGION NARRATING THE HISTORY OF a plate: The role of illustration in dishing up SCIENCE Russell M. Lawson, Oklahoma School of knowledge Jan Golinski, University ofNew Hampshire Science and Mathematics, The Pious Scientist: Peter Geimer, University ofKonstanz, Noise Jeremy Belknap, the New Science, and and Nature: On photographic artifacts 7:00-8:00 P.M. Reception Commentator and Chair: TBA Sujit P. Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge, Probing Bounds: Collection, THE LEGACY OF : Natural History, Missionaries and Pacific FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 REFLECTIONS ON FULLER'S THOMAS KUHN: Islanders 9:00-11:45 A.M. A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY FOR OUR TIMES* Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Soci *Denotes Session Organizer & Special Jeff Hughes, University ofManchester Research, South Asian Philosophical Millennial Sessions Jan Golinski, University ofNew Hampshire Resonances and the New Physics: Influence Philip Mirowski, Notre Dame University or Resonance? RECONSIDERING MATHEMATICAL Paul Roth, University ofMissouri at St Louis PRACTITIONERS IN THE l 6TH AND l 7TH Chair: TBA CENTURIES Commentator: *Steve W. Fuller, University *Steven A. Walton, IHPST - University of of Warwick DEMONSTRATION OF ScIPER DATABASE Toronto, Thomas Hood and Armada Angst: Chair: Paul Roch, University ofMissouri at St Jonathan R. Topham, University ofLeeds How mathematical were the military sciences? Louis *Geoffrey N. Cantor, University ofLeeds Hester K. Higton, UniversityofExeter, 'Does RETHINKING "PROFESSIONALISATION" IN using an instrument make you mathematical? NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE VICTORIAN SCIENCE 'Mathematical practitioners' of the 17th Michael P. White, McGill University, Modern Ruth Barton, Auckland University, The Century, and their instruments Times: Temporality and Modernity in changing self-images and cultural roles of Katherine Neal, University ofSydney , Practical Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology "scientific men" in mid-Victorian period Mathematics and Narratives of the Scientific Elizabeth Garber, SUNY Stony Brook, Why *Jim Endersby, Cambridge University, Revolution: What ever is to be done? Mathematics? Putting Plants in their Place: Joseph Hooker Commentator: Lesley B. Cormack University Hannah Gay, Simon Fraser University, The and the making of amateurs ofAlberta Scientific World of Herbert McLeod: A Ben Marsden, Aberdeen University, The Chair: TBA Microhistorical Challenge to Some of the professional and professorial: Engineering More Systematic Accounts in the History of under cover in the early Victorian Universities ALCHEMY IN OLD EGYPT Victorian Science *Hamed A. Ead, Science Heritage Center, Cairo Commentator and Chair: TBA Chair: TBA University, Giza, Egypt, Earliest Chemical NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY Manuscripts of the Chemical Arts in Egypt ETHICS, HUMANISM AND THE HUMANITIES OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS* Daryn Lehoux, University ofToronto, Canada, Katharine Wright, University of Toronto, Astronomy and Weather Prediction in Humanism, Antihumanism, and Ancient Egypt T echnoscience jOINT MEETING 5

Benjamin R. Cohen, Virginia Tech, On the NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION Chair: TBA -wo Temperaments of Science and the Tobias Cheung, University ofTokyo, Cuvier's umanities: Those That Bridge the Divide Heritage: Living Architecture Between READING "BooKS OF NATURE": NEw and Those That Blur Natural Burdens and Regulative Devices DIRECTIONS IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION* Gary S. Belkin, Harvard University, Crossing GregoryS. Goodale, George Mason University, Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds, Disciplines: Using History to Change The Early Evolution of Evolution Theory Religious Practices and the Uses of Books Bioethics Igor Yu. Popov, St. Petersburg Branch ofthe Peter Denton, University of Winnipeg, Chair: TBA Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Framing the Discourse: Science, Religion Analysis of a Prototype of 'Case Study' and the Hermeneutics of'the Book' Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds, 3:30-5:30 P.M. Gregory M. Radick, University ofCambridge, Darwinism and the Dual Revolution Rhetorics of Concord and Dissonance Commentator and Chair: TBA SCIENCE, HEALTH AND THE STATE Chair: TBA Paul C. Chrostowski, CPF Associates, Inc., HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Public Perception of the Evolution of the THE CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY STATE OF THE RELATIONSHIP* Dose-Response Relationship in Toxicology Lawrence S. Dritsas, Virginia Polytechnic Don Howard, Notre Dame, Kith or Kin? On ElizabethA. Hachten, University ofWisconsin­ Institute and State University, The Nile the Relationship between History and Whitewater, Across the Revolutionary Divide: Sources: A Look at Discovery Philosophy of Science Epidemics, Science and the Russian Seate Andre R. LeBlanc, Universite du Quebec Catherine Wilson, University of British Montreal, The Problem of Post-hypnotic Martin Lengwiler, Center for Social and Columbia History of Science Meets History Suggestion in France, 1884-1896 Economic History, Welfare State and Risk of Philosophy Society: The Historical Dimension ofCurrent David A. Steinberg, Saa Institute, Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvnania Risk Debates Concomitance and Complementarity­ History and Philosophy of Science: On Common Paths to a Modern Science Ki-heung Kim, The University ofEdinburgh, Telling the Players ~ ontroversy on the Nature of the Scrapie Rhona G . Leibel, Metropolitan State Commentator and Chair: TBA ent in the 1960s University, Epistemic Disunity in the Study Chair: TBA ofln ternational Relations: Assessing Interwar Idealism SATURDAY, 5 AUGUST 9:00-11:45 A.M. *Denotes Session Organizer & Special PLAYING IN Sr. Louis Millennial Sessions

Delegates and guests will discover many attractions in St. Louis. We have chosen three NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA: TRANSLATION AND activities that exemplify the city's character and importance. Each event in St. Louis REASSESSMENT features a limited number of places-first come, first served. I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University Translating Newton's Principia Missouri Botanical Gardens and Historic Neighborhoods Tour (4 hours, Thursday 1- William Harper, University of Western 5, $22/person): The Missouri Botanical garden is reported to be the oldest botanical Ontario, Newton's Principia as a historical garden in the U.S. This trip includes a guided tram tour through the Garden's 79 acres introduction to theory and evidence of flora. Afterwards, you will visit three historic neighborhoods: Compton Heights George Smith, Tufts University, Newton's (home of the beer barons), Lafayette Square and its Victorian mansions, and Soulard Principia in the philosophy curriculum with its working-class neighborhoods. Michael N auenberg, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, The role ofcurvature in Newton's St. Louis Cardinals vs. Arlanta Braves (7: 10 p.m. Friday, $20/each Terrace Reserve or Dynamics $10/each upper terrace): Baseball is the quintessential American sport and St. Louis Chair: *J.Bruce Brackenridge Lawrence player Mark McGwire is the quintessential homerun champion. You will be able to .. University enjoy both during this evening game.

VISUALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY* Cahokia Indian Mounds and Mississippi Riverboat Cruise (9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Sunday, $25/each): Designated as a World Heritage site in 1982, the Cahokia Mounds offer NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY AND a glimpse of pre-Columbian America. After a tour of the Mounds, visitors will embark MATERIAL CULTURE OF ExrERIMENT* on a replica paddlewheeler for a one-hour cruise. Graeme J.N. Gooday, University of Leeds, Tempering and amalgamating the 6 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER APRIL 2000 boundaries: Characters and metals m the 1:30-3:10 P.M. SCIENCE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE EAST history of science and technology Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Soci Nani Clow, Max Planck !nstitutfor the History POLITICAL COSMOLOGY Research, The Inflow of Major South Asian b" a/Science, Berlin, The indispensable research Elizabeth R. Neswald, Humboldt Universitaet Textual Material into Contemporary staff: Collaborative experiment and laboratory _zu Berlin, Cyclical Cosmologies in Late 19th Psychology culture in Liverpool, 1881-1900 Century Germany Gary J. Hausman, University ofManchester, Falk Mueller, Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Daniel Gasman, CUNY, in Making Medicine Indigenous: Homoeopathy Oldenburg, Germany Experimental spaces and Italy: Monism and the Birth of Fascist in Madras [India) conceptual development in 19th-century gas Ideology J. A. Krikstopaitis, History ofScience Behind discharge physics Paul T. Arpaia, Baruch College, Evolving the Iron Curtain in the Baltic Nations Commentator: Heering Peter Carl-von­ into Italians: Evolutionism in Giosue Chair: TBA Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany Carducci's Conception of Italian Cultural Chair: TBA and Political Identity Chair: TBA 3:30-5:30 P.M. FOUNDING DISCIPLINES Peder J. Anker, University a/Oslo, A History HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES of Environmental History Sven Dupre, University ofGent, Instruments John Suppe, Princeton University, The Matthew R. Goodrum, Indiana University, and Embodiment in Art and Science Tandem Bicycle Ride: Exponential Growth Establishing a Place for the History of Jennifer K. Alexander, University of of Science and the Academy in the 19th and Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology Minnesota, Viva Vis Viva: John Smeaton, Vis 20th Centuries Within the History of Science Viva, and Engineering Experiments in the Dong-Won Kim, KA/ST, Australians and John A. Heitmann, University of Dayton, Industrial Revolution Canadians at the Cavendish Laboratory in What is to be Done in the New Millennium: Roland Wittje, Norwegian University of the Early Twentieth Century The History of Analytical Chemistry, the Science and Technology, Scientific Instruments Anna Binnie, Macquarie University, From History ofPublic Health, and Environmental as Source Material for History of Late 19th Atomic Energy to Nuclear Science ~ History and Early 20th Century Physics James W. Endersby, University ofMissouri, Nicolas Rasmussen, University ofCalifornia, Chair: TBA Collaboration, Authorship, and Scientific Berkeley, Plant Hormones in War and Peace: Research: Trends and Patterns Among Science, Industry, and Intellectual Property EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES Disciplines in the Development of Herbicides in 1940s Susan McMahon, University of Alberta, Chair: TBA America Inventing Botany at the Royal Society Colin Russell, The Open University, Where Peter Heering, University of Oldenburg, SCIENCE MUSEUMS AND THE DISPLAY OF Science Meets Technology: The Special Case Replicating a Revolutionary's Experiments: KNOWLEDGE of Chemistry? Jean Paul Marat's Scientific Approach Linda E. Endersby, University of Missouri, Chair: TBA Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, The 'Stepchildren' ofScience: Engineers and Nativizing Western Science: Two Examples Technology in the Hallowed Halls ofScience THE EMOTIONAL ECONOMY OF SCIENCE: from Japan Museums SYMPATHY AND THE FORMATION OF Chair: TBA Constance A. Malpas, Princeton University, SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES, 1800-1930 Framing the Master Narrative: Museological Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern NINETEENTH CENTURY BRlTISH SCIENCE, and Bibliographic Approaches to the University, Forging community through CULTURE, AND PUBLIC Organization of Knowledge bodily sympathy in industrial-era natural Martin Fichman, York University, Alfred Tom Scheinfeldt, University of Oxford, philosophy Russel Wallace's North American Tour: Constructivist Historiography: Some Paul S. White, University of Cambridge, Transatlantic Evolutionary Theism Implications for Science Museums Passion for science: The display of feeling in David A. Riley, University of Manchester, Chair: TBA late-Victorian biology and medicine 'Science Lectures for the People': Problems Otniel E. Dror, Getty Research Institute, Purity in the Public Understanding of Science in CULTURAL AND SocIAL STUDIES OF ScIENC 19th Century Britain and danger: Sympathy, antipathies, and the Paromita Chakravarti, ]adavpur University, boundaries of science Linda C. McCabe, Independent Scholar, Origins Juan Huarte's Examination of Men's Wits, Commentator and Chair: James A. Secord of the Cultural Image of the Cave Man 1594 and the Historiography of Mental University of Cambridge Chair: TBA Disability jOINT MEETING 7

Michael W. Seltzer, Virginia Polytechnic r_ • stituteandState University, Historiography JusT RELEASED: BEYOND ]OSEPH NEEDHAM: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, AND nd Our Cultural Understanding of Science MEDICINE IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASL4 Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, Edited by Morris F. Low, Universiry of Queensland Volume 13 of the Osiris series, Translation and the History of Science: An edited by Margaret W. Rossiter, Cornell Universiry. Overdue Subject Chair: TBA This path-breaking collection gives readers a strong sense of the political and economic imperatives behind various knowledge systems in Asia, their cultural Popular Science?* contexts, and how they have coexisted along with those in the Wesr. A table of *Aileen Fyfe, University of Cambridge, contents may be viewed at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Osiris/v13toc.html. Industrialised Conversion: Publishing popular HSS members may order Osiris 13 at reduced rates ($27.50 for cloth editions, $17.50 science and religion in Victorian Britain for paper) from The University of Chicago Press, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL Suzanne LeMay-Sheffield, Dalhousie 60637. (773)753-3347. Fax (773)753-0811, [email protected]. University, 'Beyond Popularization': Women naturalists exploring science Carsten Timmerman, University of WoRK IN THE HSS OFFICE FAREWELL To MAo Manchester, 'Folk Knowledge' and Professional Politics: Medical historians and he Executive Office of the History of t is with sadness and thanks that we popular science in interwar Germany T Science Society seeks an individual to I announce Melissa Anne Oliver's pending entry into the ranks Commentator and Chair: TBA help with Society administration. This full­ of K-12 education. time position in Seattle (on the campus of the Anyone who has attended the past three HSS UniversiryofWashington) would begin May annual meetings or has contacted the HSS READING AND WRITING MEDICAL HISTORY Executive Office in the past two years will RHETORICALLY* 2000. The successful applicant should possess a fair degree of computer expertise (Mac have spoken with Melissa. Since April 1998, *Philip M. Teigen, National Library of experience preferred, but not necessary) She has valiantly organized meeting edicine, Language, Logic, and the including experience with database registration, composed and styled the HSS istoriography of Medicine management (FileMaker Pro), word Newsletter, created the annual meeting Jill G. Morawski, Wesleyan University, Tales processing, and HTML and Web site program, maintained the HSS Web site, and of Sperm: The Storied Historiography of maintenance. Duties will include assistance handled untold numbers of other tasks and Artifical Insemination with the HSS Newsletter, Web site, and annual assignments. She has accomplished all of David N. Harley, University ofNotre Dame, meeting. This position is particularly suited these duties with good humor, extraordinary The Present in the Past: Charles Webster and for recent college graduates who are considering innovation, and a commitment to high the 17th-Century Prehistory of the NHS graduate education in the history of science. quality. During her tenure, the Society has Commentator and Chair: TBA Please send inquiries to Robert J. Malone, moved briskly into the world of e-education. Executive Director, History ofScience Society, The HSS Web site is the envy of academic Box 351330, University of Washington, societies (many with thousands of more 5:30-6:30 P.M. Seattle, WA 98195-1330. Phone: members than the HSS) and online Reception 206.543.9366, [email protected]. registration and proposals have become wildly popular among the HSS membership. Melissa 6:30-8:00 P .M. TRAVEL GRANTS IN 2000 introduced numerous innovations in PLENARY SESSION processing the wearying details surrounding "WHAT IS TO BE DONE" or the past five years, the NSF has funded the annual meeting, helping place meeting F travel grants to help graduate students minutiae in the background, where they and independent scholars travel to, and belong. Her prodigious memory has saved 8:00 P.M. participate in, the HSS annual meeting. These the Executive Office from a thousand BANQUET grants, which are administered by the HSS, embarrassments. are now up for extension and renewal. As the Melissa is bound for Baltimore, April Newsletter went to press, the status of Maryland, where she is slated to teach WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE ST. LoUIS grants for 2000 had not yet been determined. elementary children as a Teach for America MEETING? VoLUNTEERTOCHAIRASESSION. Please moniror the HSS Web site for updates corps member. Her last day in the HSS office YOUR HELP AND EXPERTISE ARE NEEDED. on the status of the travel grants. We hope to will be in mid-May. Please take the time to CONTACT [email protected] publish grant application forms in the July express your thanks and wish her good fortune Newsletter. in her new career. 8 HISTORY OF S CIENCE S OCIETY N EWSLETTER APRIL 2000

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Ken Alder, Associate Professor, Teaching Gender, Science and Medicine," Radical History Review 73 Department of History, Northwestern (1999);"ManaginganExperimentalHousehold: TheDeesofMortlake University. Ph.D., Harvard University and the Practice of Natural Philosophy," Isis 88 (1997): 247-262 1991. HSS Activities: Advisory editor (Winner of the HSS Derek Price Prize); "Shows in the Showstone: A for Isis. Selected Publications: Theater of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angelic Conversations of Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1765-1815 John Dee (1527-1608)," Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 707-737. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, (Winner of the Renaissance Society of America's Nelson Prize for the 1997); "Making Things the Same: best article published by the journal in 1996); "Alchemy and Technological Rep res en tation, Eschatology: Exploring the Connections Between John Dee and Isaac Manufacturing Tolerance, and the End Newton," in Newton and Religion, edited by Richard Popkin and of the Old Regime in France," Social Studies ofScience 24 (1998): 499- James Force (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1999). 545; "French Engineers Become Professionals, Or, How Meritocracy Made Knowledge Objective," in The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, Harry M. Marks, Associate Professor, eds. William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer (Chicago: the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee University ofChicago Press, 2000); "To Tell the Truth: The Polygraph Harvey Professorship in the History of Exam and the Marketing ofAmerican Expertise," Historical Reflections Medicine, Department of History of 24 (1998): 487-525; The White Bus (New York: Saint Martin's Press, Science, Medicine &Technology, The 1987) and Himmelstein's Hoax (manuscript complete). Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, James J. Bono, Associate Professor, 1987. HSSActivities: Editorial Board, History and Medicine, State University Isis 1998- Selected Publications: The ofNewYork[SUNY] at Buffalo. Ph.D., Progress of Experiment: Science and Harvard University, 1981. HSS Therapeutic Reform in the United States, Activities: Presented papers; chaired 1900-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1997); "Cortisone, 1949: A and/or commented and organized Year in the Political Life of a Drug," Bulletin ofthe History ofMedicine, sessions at a number ofHSS meetings. 66 (Fall, 1992): 419-439; "Medical Technologies: Social Contexts Selected publications: The Word ofGod and Consequences," Companion Encyclopedia ofthe History ofMedicine, and the Languages ofMan: Interpreting ed. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (London and New York: Routledge, Nature in Early Modern Science and 1993), 1592-1618. Medicine, Vol. 1, Ficino to Descartes (Madison: University ofWisconsin Press, 1995); "Science, Discourse, Katharine Park, Zemurray Stone and Literature: The Role/Rule of Metaphor in Science," in Literature Radcliffe Professor of the History of and Science: Theory and Practice, ed. Stuart Peterfreund (Boston: Science and Women's Studies, Harvard Northeastern University Press, 1990), 59-89; "From Paracelsus to University; Ph.D., Harvard University, Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of 1981. HSS Activities: Council (1991- the Emblematic World View," in Newton and Religion: Context, 93); Committee on Research and the Nature, and Influence, ed. James Force and Richard H. Popkin Profession (1991-93); Chair, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), 45-76; "The Human Genome, Difference, Nominating Committee (1991); and Disease: Nature, Culture, and New Narratives for Medicine's Nominating Committee (1997) . Future," in Ethicallssues in Health Care on the Frontiers ofthe Twenty­ Selected Publications: Doctors and First Century, ed. Stephen Wear, James J. Bono, et al. (Dordrecht: Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence Kluwer, 2000 [in press]); Figuring Science: Metaphor, Narrative, and (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); (with Lorraine ]. the Cultural Location of Scientific Revolutions (Stanford: Stanford Daston), Wonders and the Order ofNature, 1150-1750 (New York, University Press, in progress). Zone Books, 1998) awarded the 1999 Pfizer Prize; "The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy," The D eborah E. Harkness, Associate Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 1-33; "The Rediscovery of the Professor U.C. Davis, Department of Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570-1620," in Carla History, Ph.D., U.C. Davis, 1994. HSS Mazzio and David Hillman, eds., The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Activities: 1999-2001, Derek Price Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (New York: Routledge, 1997), Award Committee. Selected 171-93; "Magic and Medicine: The Healing Arts," in Judith C. Publications: john Dee's Conversations Brown and Robert C. Davis, eds., Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998), 129-49. with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End ofNature (Cambridge University Press, 1999); "Beyond Midwives: HSS ELECTIONS 9

Karen Parshall, Professor of History (Universiry of Chicago Press, 1997); "British Political Economy to and Mathematics, University of 1870" in Theodore Porter and Dorothy Ross, eds., Cambridge Virginia. Ph.D., UniversiryofChicago, HistoryofScience, Vol. 7 (Cambridge Universiry Press, forthcoming). 1982. HSS Activities: HSS Program Co-Chair for the Atlanta meeting 1996 Joie Shackleford, Adjunct Assistant Member, Committee on Meetings and Professor, Universiry of Minnesota Programs, 1999-2001 Member, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Schuman Prize Committee, 1989- Madison, 1989. HSS Activities: 1991, Chair in 1991; Session Organizer, Subcommittee on Independent 1994, 1992, 1987. Selected Scholars, Fall 1995-Spring 1997, Chair Publications: The Emergence of the 1997. Paper Presenter 1993, 1994, American Mathematical Research Community, 1816-1900:]]. Sylvester, 1998. Selected Publications: E.HMoore, and Felix Klein (with David E. Rowe) (Providence: "Documenting the Factual and the American Mathematical Sociery and London: London Mathematical Artifactual: Ole Worm and Public Sociery, 1994); Experiencing Nature (with Paul Theerman) (Boston/ Knowledge," Endeavour23 (1999), 65- Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997) ;JamesJoseph Sylvester: 71; "Unification and the Chemistry of the Reformation," in Max Life and Work in Letters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); "Varieties Reinhart (ed.), Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder, and Reorder in as Incipient Species: Darwin's Numerical Analysis," journal of the Early Modern German Culture, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, History of Biology 15 (1982), 191-214; "Mathematics in National vol. 40. (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Contexts (1875-1900): An International Overview," Proceedings of Inc., 1998), 291-312; "Seeds with a Mechanical Purpose: Severinus' the International Congress of Mathematicians--Zurich, 2 vols. (Basel: Semina and Seventeenth-Century Matter Theory," in Allen G. Debus Birkhauser, 1995), 2:1581-1591. and Michael T. Walton (eds.), Reading the Book ofNature: The Other Side ofthe Scientific Revolution, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Philip J. Pauly, Associate Professor of vol. 41 (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, History, Rutgers, the State Universiry Inc., 1998), 15-44; "Rosicrucianism, Lutheran Orthodoxy, and the ofNew Jersey, New Brunswick. Ph.D., Rejection ofParacelsianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Denmark," Johns Hopkins Universiry, 1981. HSS Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70 (1996), 181-204; "Early Activities: Watson-Davis Prize Reception of Paracelsian Theory: Severinus and Erastus," Sixteenth Committee, 1989-1990 (chair 1990), Century]ournal26 (1995), 123-35. Advisory Editor, Isis, 1995-1998, Committee on Honors and Prizes, Robert Westman, Professor, 1998- (chair 1999-), Forum for the Department of History and Science History of Science in America Studies Program, University of Coordinating Committee, 1988-1991 California, San Diego. Ph.D., (chair 1989-1991; prize committee 1992-1994). Selected Publications: University of Michigan, 1971. HSS Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology, Activities: Advisory Editor, Isis, 1981- (New York: Oxford Universiry Press, 1987); "Is Liquor Intoxicating? 1984; council Member, 1976-78; Scientists, Prohibition, and the Normalization of Drinking," American 1988-92; Pfizer Award Committee, journal ofPublic Health84 (1994):305-313; ''The BeauryandMenace 1976. Selected Publications: "Magical of the Japanese Cherry Trees: Conflicting Visions of American Reform and Astronomical Reform: The Ecological Independence," Isis 87 (1996):51-73; Biologists and the Yates Thesis Reconsidered," in Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution (Los Angeles: William Andrews (Princeton: Princeton University Press, in press). Clark Memorial Library, 1977), 1-91; "The Astronomer's Role in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Study," History of Science Qune Margaret Schabas, Professor of 1980): 105-147; "Nature, Art, and Psyche: Jung, Pauli and the Philosophy, York Universiry. Ph.D., Kepler-Fludd Polemic," in Brian Vickers, ed., Occult and Scientific Universiry of Toronto, 1983. HSS Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Activities: Program Co-chair, 1997 Press, 1984), 177-229; "Proof, Poetics and Patronage: Copernicus's Annual Meeting, San Diego; Preface to De revolutionibus," in David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Committee on Meetings and Westman, Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge Programs, 1996-99; Session Organizer Universiry Press, 1990), 167-205; "Two Cultures or One? A Second (1990, 1992, 1996, 1999), Paper Look at Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution," Isis 85 (March 1994): 79-115. Presenter (1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999). Book JZeviewer, Isis. Selected Publications: A World Ruled By Number NOMINATING COMMITTEE-FROM COUNCIL (Princeton Universiry Press, 1990); "Breaking Away: History of Economics as History of Science," History ofPolitical Economy 24 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Associate Professor of the History of (1992) : 187-203; "John Stuart Mill and Concepts of Nature," Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Dialogue 34 (1995): 447-65; "Victorian Economics and the Science Institute of Technology. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993. HSS of the Mind," in B. Lightman, ed., Victorian Science in Context Activities: Co-Chair Committee on Women (1993-1995); session 10 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER APRIL 2000

organizer/ chair, HSS Annual Meetings Vitae, ed.Kevin William Wildes, S.J. (Washington, DC: Georgetown (199 3, 199 5, 1996), HSS Council University Press, 1997), 105-120; "Precision, Tolerance, Consensus: (1999-2001). Selected Publications: Local Cultures in German and British Resistance Standards," Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Archimedes 1 (1996), 117-156. Campaigns to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930(Hopkins, 1999); Karen Meier Reeds, Curator, "A State Gender and Scientific Authority, co-ed. of Health: New Jersey's Medical (Chicago, 1997); Science, Politics, and Heritage." Princeton Research Forum/ the Art of Persuasion: Promoting the National Coalition of Independent New Scientific Medicine in New York Scholars, New Providence NJ. Ph.D., City with Elizabeth Fee in Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Harvard University, 1975. HSS Epidemics in New York City, David Rosner, ed. (Rutgers, 1995). Activities: Isis book reviewer; Session chair, annual meetings, 1996, 1999; Richard Kremer, Associate Professor, Nominating Committee, 1992, Derek Department of History, Dartmouth Price Award Committee,Council, College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1998-2000, Committee on Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984. HSS Publications, 1998-2003. Selected Publications: Botany in Medieval Activities: NorthAmerican Committee and Renaissance Universities (NY: Garland, 1991); with Judith for Dibner Visiting Historians of Swazey, Today's Medicine, Tomorrow's Science: Essays on Paths to Science Program, 1989-1993; Program Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences (Government Printing Office, Co-Chair, New Orleans Meeting 1978); "Renaissance Humanism and Botany," Annals a/Science 33 Program, 1994; Committee on (1976): 519-542. Education, 1995-99, Chair 1997-99, Council, 2000-02. Selected Alan E. Shapiro, Professor, History of Publications: "Alfonsine Meridians: Tradition vs. Experience in Science and Technology, University of Astronomical Practice c. 1500" (with] erzy Dobrzycki),Journalfor the Minnesota. Ph.D., Yale Universiry, History of Astronomy 29 (1998): 187-99; "The Eye as Inscription 1970. HSS Activities: Program Chair, Device in the 1870s: Optograms, Cameras, and the Photochemistry 1976 Annual Meeting; Council, 1977- of Vision," in Biology Integrating Scientific Fundamentals, B. Hoppe, 80; Nominating Committee, 1978/ ed. (Munich, 1997), 359-81; "Peurbach and Maragha Astronomy? 1989; Delegate to AAAS, Section L, The Ephemerides ofJohannesAngelus and Their Implications," (with 1978-84; Local Arrangements Chair, Jerzy Dobrzycki),Journalfor the History ofAstronomy 27 (1996): 187- 1995 Annual Meeting. Selected 237; "Gleanings from the Archives? The Helmholtz Industry and Publications: The Optical Papers of!saac Unpublished Sources," in Universalgenie Helmholtz, L. Krger, ed. Newton. Volume I The Optical Lectures. (Berlin, 1994), 379-400; "Innovation Through Synthesis: Helmholtz 1670-1672 (Cambridge University Press, 1984); "Beyond the Dating and Color Research," in Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations Game: Watermark Clusters and the Composition ofN ewton' s Opticks," ofNineteenth-Century Science, D. Cahan, ed. (Berkeley, 1993), 205-58. in The Investigation ofDifficult Things, ed. Peter Harman and Alan E. Shapiro (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 181-227; Fits, Passions Kathryn M. Olesko, Associate and Paroxysms: Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newtom Theories of Professor, Center for German and Colored Bodies and Fits ofEasy Reflection (Cambridge University Press, European Studies and Department of 1993); "Artists' Colors and Newton's Colors," Isis 85 (1994): 600-630; History, Georgetown University. "The Gradual Acceptance of Newton's Theory of Light and Color, Ph.D., Cornell Universiry, 1989. HSS 1672-1727," Perspectives in Science 4 (1996): 59-140. Activities: Council, 2000-2002; Osiris: Editorial Board, 1997-98; Associate Pamela H. Smith, Associate Professor Editor, 1998-2001; Editor, 2002-2006; of History, Pomona College (1990- American Association for the present), Director of European Advancement ofScience Representative Studies, Claremont Graduate (1996-99) Committee on Publications (Member, 1992-97; Secretary, University (1996-present). Ph.D., 1995; Chair, 1996, Ex officio, 1997) Nominating Committee (1993) Johns Hopkins University, 1991. HSS Committee on Meetings and Programs, member 1990-93 Local Activities: Osiris Editorial Board 2000- Arrangements Co-Chair, 1992 Annual Meeting,Washington, DC; 2004; Committee on Education, Washington Representative (1989). Committee on Education 2000-2002; Isis Advisory Editor 1997- (Member, 1982-88; Chair, 1985-88 Ex Officio, 1989) Ad Hoc 2000; President, West Coast History of Science Sociery, 1997; Committee on Executive Secretaryship ( 1986). Selected Publications: Session organizer/paper presenter HSS Annual Meetings: 1989, 92, Precision in German Society: Westphalia to Divided Berlin (forthcoming); 97, 98. Book reviewer, Isis. Selected Publications: The Business o Physics as a Calling (Ithaca and London: Cornell Universiry Press, Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton: 1991); "Science in Germanic Europe," Cambridge Encyclopedia for the Princeton University Press, 1994) (awarded the 1995 HSS Pfizer History ofScience (forthcoming); "Technology, Efficiency, & Gender Prize); "Giving Voice to the Hands: The Articulation of Material in Evangelium Vitae," in Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Literacy in the Sixteenth Century," in Popular Literacy, John Trimbur, HSS ELECTIONS 11

ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming); "Vital Spirits: , Professor of - \ chemy, Redemption, and Artisanship in Early Modern Europe," History of Science, University of Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, Margaret J. Osler, ed. Minnesota. Ph.D., University of (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2000); "Science and Illinois, 1972. HSS Activities: Taste: Painting, Passions, and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth­ Secretary, 1978-198l;Council, 1982- century Leiden," Isis 90 (1999): 420-461; "Alchemy as a Language 1984, 1989-1991, and 1994-1995; of Mediation at the Habsburg Court," Isis 85 (1994): 1-25; "Curing Committee on Publications, 1982- the Body Politic: Chemistry and Commerce at Court, 1664-1670," 1987; chair, Nominating Committee, in Bruce Moran, ed., Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, 1985; Visiting Lecturer, 1988-1989; and Medicine at the European Court, 1500-1750 (Suffolk: Boydell, chair, Education Committee, 1989; 1991), 195-209. Vice-President, 1990 and 1991 and President, 1992 and 1993; Finance Committee, 1994-1997; Fund Raising Committee, 1999- 2000. Selected Publications: Edited, with Helen Longino, "Women, NOMINATING COMMITTEE- AT URGE Gender, and Science: New Directions," Osiris 12 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); "Nature Study in North William Eamon, Professor of History American and Australasia, 1890-1945," Historical Records of and Director, University Honors Australian Science 11 Qune 1997): 439-454; Co-authored with Program, New Mexico State and Bruce Lewenstein, The Establishment ofScience University. Ph.D., University of in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999); Kansas, 1977. HSS Activities: Edited, Women in Science: An Isis Reader (Chicago: University of Committee on Honors and Prizes, Chicago Press, in press)' '"The Irrepressible Woman Question': 1986-87. Selected Publications: Women's Responses to Darwinian Evolutionary Ideology," in Science and the Secrets ofNature: Books Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and ofSecrets in Medieval and Early Modern Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Culture (Princeton University Press, 1994; Italian translation Genova: ECIG, 1999); "Cannibalism and Edith Dudley Sylla Professor of Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy," Early History, North Carolina State cience and Medicine 3 (1998): 1-31; "Plagues, Healers, and Patients University (Spring 2000, Visiting 1 Early Modern Europe" Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 474-86; Professor MIT) Ph.D. Harvard "Science as a Hunt," Physis 31(1994):393-432; "Court, Academy, University, 1971. HSS Activities: and Printing House: Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late­ Chair, Schuman Prize Committee, Renaissance Italy," in Patronage and Institutions, ed. B. Moran 197 4, Chair, Pfizer Award Committee, (Boydell Press, 1991); "Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo 1979, Chair, Committee on Honors Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone," Early Science and Prizes, 1981-84, Council Member, and Medicine (forthcoming). 1982-84, 1992-94 Isis, Member editorial board, 1984-89 Secretary and Editor Newsletter, 1986-87 Christopher Hamlin, Professor and Nominating Committee, 1987; chair 1989 Local Arrangements Chair, Department of History, Committee, co-chair, 1987 Annual meeting, Raleigh Publications University of Notre Dame. Ph.D. Committee, 1988-92 Program Co-chair, 1999 annual meeting. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Selected publications: "Jacob Bernoulli on Analysis, Synthesis, and 1982. HSS Activities: HSS session the Law of Large Numbers," in Michael Otte and Marco Panza, eds., organizer 1984, 1988. Selected Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy Publications: A Science of Impurity: (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997), 79-101; "The Transmission of the New Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Physics of the Fourteenth Century from England to the Continent," Britain (Bristol, England: Adam in Stefano Caroti and Pierre Souffrin, eds., La Nouvelle Physique du Hilger, Ltd./ Berkeley and Los Angeles: XIVSiecle (Florence: Olschki, 1997), 65-11 O; "Thomas Bradwardine' s University of California Press, 1990); (with Philip T. Shepard), De continuo and the Structure of Fourteenth-Century Learning," in Deep Disagreement in US. Agriculture: Making Sense ofPolicy Conflict Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh, eds., Texts and Contexts in Ancient ... (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993); Public Health and Social and Medieval Science. Studies on the Occasion ofJohn E. Murdoch's justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854 (Cambridge: Seventieth Birthday (Leiden: E. ]. Brill, 1997), 148-86. "God, Cambridge University Press, 1998); "Concepts of Predisposing Indivisibles, and Logic in the Later Middle Ages: Adam Wodeham's Causes in the Early Nineteenth Century Public Health Movement," Response to Henry ofHarclay," Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 Social History ofMedicine 5 ( 1992): 43-70; " and (1998): 69-87; 'The Emergence of Mathematical Probability from Expert Witnessing: Victorian Perspectives on a Modern Problem," the Perspective of the Leibniz-] acob Bernoulli Correspondence," ~ cial Studies in Science 16 (1986): 485-513; "Reflexivity in Perspectives in the Sciences 6 (1998): 41-76. echnology Studies: Toward a Technology of Technology (and Science)?" Social Studies in Science 22 (1992): 511-44. THE HSS AND THE ADAM' s MARK NEW JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF GEOPHY ICS AND he Adam's Mark hotel chain has been in the news the past several SPACE PHYSICS T months due to charges of racial discrimination that were leveled A new Yearbook, the "Beicrage zur Geschichce der Geophysik and against the hotel's parent company. These charges received wide Kosmischen Physik, Contributions for the History of Geophysics and notice in the academic community in connection with the Organization Cosmical Physics" is now available. The journal contains papers on the of American Historians' decision to move its 2000 meeting from the history ofgeophysics, meteorology, geology, physics, cosmical physics, Adam's Mark in St. Louis to other venues in the city. This controversy and che history and philosophy of science, as well as news and book has affected the HSS since che Adam's Mark is the host for the reviews. Representative languages of the papers include German, Society's 2001 meeting in Denver. English, French, and Spanish. The price for vol. 1 is $17. Subscriptions As theApriWewsletterwas going co press, it was announced that the may be directed co AK Geschichce and Cosmical Physics, Hechescr. 8, suit had been settled to the satisfaction of all parries involved. This D-28777 Bremen-Roennebeck, Germany. resolution provided some considerable relief to the HSS Executive Office, which had been following the situation for the past several months. Back in December 1999, shortly after the U.S. Department of It is with sadness chat we announce the death of Mirko ] ustice filed charges against the hotel, the Executive Office had conveyed Drazen Grmek. Professor Grmek, who was honored in 1991 to the Denver Adam's Mark our deep concern over the allegations and with the Society's highest honor, the Sanon Medal, died on had reiterated that the Society actively promotes non-discriminatory the 6"' of March, 2000. practices (the Society inserts in all hotel contracts a clause chat scares chat the HSS will not utilize facilities chat practice discrimination based on race, sex, age, handicap, Publications Now Available from the HSS Executive Office sexual orientation or preference, or religion). However, the situation with the Adam's Mark ORDER FORM left the HSS with a dilemma. Short of an adjudication of guilt, ic is difficult for academic societies to prove that an institution is indeed City ______Scace ZIP ______guilty of discriminatory practices, and the no­ E-mail: ------Phone: ______discrimination clause in the HSS contract did not protect the Society from financial liability. 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PROCESSING GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR PHYSICS, IMPORTANT NEWS FOR NSF GRANTSEEKERS AND ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS COLLECTIONS INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS

he Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of ometime in the second half of the year 2000 the National Science T Physics is pleased to announce its 2000 program of Grants to SFoundation will begin to require (with some minor exceptions) Archives. The grants are intended to make accessible records, that all proposals prepared for NSF consideration must be submitted papers, and other primary sources that document the history of via FastLane, NSF's Web-based, document-handling system. All modern physics and allied fields (such as astronomy, geophysics, researchers and others planning to submit proposals to NSF' s Societal and optics). Grants can be up to $10,000 each and can be used only Dimensions ofEngineering, Science & Technology Program (SD ESn to cover direct expenses connected with preserving, inventorying, and its Science & Technology Studies Program (STS) should take arranging, describing, or cataloging appropriate collections. Expenses steps to comply with this requirement by making contact with their institution's Sponsored Programs Offices well in advance of these may include acid-free storage materials and staff salary/benefits but programs' Summer 2000 target date of 1August2000. not overhead. After much negotiation, it appears that SD EST and STS will be TheAIP History Center's mission is to preserve and make known granted the authority to issue waivers of this requirement for proposals the history of modern physics and allied fields, and this grant program submitted by independent scholars. Such potential applicants should is intended to support significant work to make original sources keep in close touch with these programs as the target date approaches accessible to researchers. Preference will accordingly be given to to determine precise mechanisms for the granting ofsuch waivers. But medium size or larger projects for which the grant will be marched once this requirement goes into effect, it is highly unlikely that such from other sources or by the parent organization. To apply, send a waivers could be granted to researchers affiliated with most institutions. letter of no more than three pages describing the nature and research To help with this transition, the History of Science Society plans significance of the collection(s), plan of work, and budget, along with on serving as an electronic gateway to FastLane for Society members preliminary inventory (if available) and staff vitae by 1July2000 to: who are independent scholars. Please contact the HSS Executive Joe Anderson, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Office for information about using this service. hysics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740; fax 301-209- For further information about FastLane and its requirements, 0882; e-mail: Joe Anderson Center for History of Physics American please consult the FastLane Web site, http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov; or Institute of [email protected]. Gail Williams of NSF's Division of Information Services The 2000 grants are funded by the Friends of the Center for ([email protected]); or Philip Johnson, SBE Computer Specialist History of Physics. For grant guidelines or for more information on ([email protected]). For information about the programs themselves, the Center and its programs, check our Web site at http://www.aip.org/ please contact the SDEST Program Director (Rachelle Hollander; history/grntgde.htm, or call 301-209-3165. The program is offered [email protected]), or the STS Program Director (throughJuly2000, annually as funds permit. Michael Sokal; [email protected]).

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THOMAS KUHN AND SCIENCE EDUCATION d Larson, professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, n January 2000, the journal Science & Education published a special E delivered the George Sanon Memorial double-issue (Vol.9 Nos.1-2, 210 pages) that is devoted to Thomas I Lecture at the 2000 AAAS meeting in Kuhn and Science Education. Because of the importance of the subject Washington D.C. The title of his talk matter, the issue will be overprinted and made available to non­ was "The AAAS and the Scopes Trial," subscribers through the International History, Philosophy and Science in which he analyzed the role of the Teaching Group, which will be meeting with the HSS in 2001. The AAAS in supporting the defense with journal should prove useful for class discussion. expertwitnesses, public comments, and The double-issue reproduces a little-known section of a 1990 financial aid during the 1925 Scopes Trial. Such efforts became a paper of Kuhn's dealing with "The Learning of Physics," and features precedent for the AAAS's continuing role in defending evolutionary ontributions from scientists, historians, philosophers, science educators teaching. and cognitive psychologists. The Sanon Lecture, named for the founder ofIsis and the History For order information, contact Professor Michael R. Matthews, ofScience Society, is given by Society members whose scholarship has School of Education Studies, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia. been judged as outstanding. Past Sarton Lecturers include Mary Jo [email protected]; fax: 61-2-9385-1946; tel: 61-2-9385-1951 . Nye, Thomas Kuhn, Margaret Rossiter, and Ronald Numbers. 14 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIE1Y NEWSLETTER APRIL 2000

AWARDS, HONORS, AND APPOINTMENTS Nicolaas Rupke has been appointed to the new Chair (C 4) of the Histoty of Science at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Robert Marc Friedman has been appointed Faculty Professor of History of Science at the School of Arts, University of Oslo. He is Alice Walters of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA was the currently Senior Researcher at the Forum for University History at the recipient of a $5,000 award in honor of Dr. Herbert Pollock, long­ same institution. time trustee and Board President ofthe Dudley Observatory. Professor Walters' received the award for her project entitled "Objectifying George B. Kauffman (California State University, Fresno) is the Nature: Culture, Commerce and Science in Britain and America, recipient of the 2000 American Chemical Society Award for Research 1750-1850." at an Undergraduate Institution. A contributing editor of eight journals, he presented the introductory plenary lecture, "Coordination Chemistry at the Turn of the Century," at the 17th Conference on 75TH ANNIVERSARY VOLUME RECOGNIZED Coordination Chemistry, Bratislava, Slovakia, 7 June 1999. His 17th book, "Metal and Nonmetal Biguanide Complexes" (New Age The Association of American Publishers awarded its Honorable International Publishers) appeared in 1999. Mention to Catching Up with the Vision: Essays on the Occasion ofthe 15th Anniversary ofthe Founding ofthe History ofScience Society in the Ronald L. Number's book Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard category of "Best Single University Press, 1998) was co-winner of the 1999 Templeton Issue of a Journal" in Thanks to those HSS Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and the Business/Social Sciences/ Natural Sciences. members who are Humanities. Congratulations participating in the Sponsor­ to Margaret Rossiter, The American Psychological Association recently honored John A. a-Scholar Program in 2000! Stephen Weldon, Joan Popplestone and his wife Marion White McPherson for their life­ Vandegrift, and all those time contributions to the field of psychology. Popplestone and Michele L. Aldrich McPherson, both of whom are retired from the University of Akron, whose labor contributed Lawrence Badash directed the affairs of the Archives of the History of American to this memorable issue. Alan C. Bowen Psychology, which they founded in 1965. Stephen G. Brush David C. Cassidy Peggy Champlin H.F. Cohen Jonathan Coopersmith __ Yes, I would like to sponsor the scholar I have listed below. Angela N. H. Creager Lorraine Daston _ _ _ Yes, please choose a scholar for me. Michael Aaron Dennis __ Yes, please renew my sponsorship of the scholar named below. Ron Doe! Bruce Eastwood Elizabeth Garber Scholar's Name:------­ Loren Graham Frederick Gregory Address:------Benjamin Harris City: ______Country: ______Postal Code: ____ J. L. Heilbron Erwin Hiebert Sponsor's Name: ______Gerald Holton Joel Howell Address:------ISIS Editorial Office City: ______Country: ______Postal Code: _ _ _ _ E.S. Kennedy Bruce Lobitz Telephone: ______Email: ______James E. McClellan, III M. Meo Amount Enclosed: ______($35 annually for each scholar sponsored) John L. Michel Naomi Oreskes Nathan Reingold Please make check or money order payable in U.S. dollars to the History of Nancy Slack Science Society. Send to HSS Executive Office, University of Washington, Box Keir Sterling 351330, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Liba Taub Virginia Trimble For further information about this program, please contact the HSS Executive Neale Watson Office at 206-543-9366, or email: [email protected]. Kathleen Whalen NEWS AND INQUIRIES 15

V ANCOUVER IN 2000

embers of the History of Science Society and the Philosophy entering Canada must fill out a declaration for Canada Customs, and M ofScience Association will convene in Vancouver, B.C. for the each visitor over the age of 19 may import, duty free, a maximum of 2000 meeting. This is the first meeting, in many years, to be held 40 ounces ( 1.1 liters) liquor or wine, or 288 ounces (8.5 liters) of beer outside of the United States, and, judging from the high number of or ale, up to 50 cigars, 200 cigarettes and 8 ounces (200 grams) of program submissions the Executive Office has received, members are tobacco. If you have any questions, you may contact the Vancouver eager to visit one of the more beautiful cities in the world. Vancouver Customs Office at: Canada Customs-Pacific Region; 3rd Floor, 333 rests on the southwest coast of British Columbia. Warmed by ocean Dunsmuir Street; Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 5R4; (604) 666- currents and sheltered by mountains, average daytime temperatures in 1493. Typical flying times to Vancouver are (Chicago 4 hrs, London early November are in the low 50s. The 34-stoty Hyatt Regency, site 9.2 hrs, New York 5.25 hrs, and Los Angeles 2.5 hrs). For those who of the conference, is 25 minutes from the airport. Located in the center are driving and plan to enter Canada through northern Washington, of downtown, the hotel is within walking distance of Gastown and the please budget 30-60 minutes to clear the li ne of cars that are us ually cruise ship landing. Each room is equipped with an iron, ironing queued there. Lines on the weekend are typically longest. board, hairdryer, coffee maker, robes, and, most importantly, umbrellas. U.S. currency is accepted at most places in British Columbia. For those bringing electronic equipment, Canada runs on the same Financial institutions and foreign-currency-exchange outlets typically type of current used in the U.S. (11 OV AC). If you will be bringing give the most favorable exchange rates. In addition to a Provincial Sales you car, parking is available in the hotel parking lot. Tax (7%), liquor (10%) a Goods & Services Tax (GST) (7%) is also Crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is easier than applied to most purchased goods and services, regardless of whether most people think. U.S. citizens and permanent residents require a the buyer is a resident of or visitor to Canada. However, goods and birth or baptismal certificate, together with picture I.D., resident alien services shipped by the vendor directly to a customer whose home is card, green card, or passport. Please note that a driver's license is not located outside of British Columbia, are not assessed a sales tax. accepted as proofof citizenship. All other international visitors require Furthermore, the GST can be partially reimbursed or rebated to non­ id passports- other documentation such as visas may be requested. residents of Canada; reimbursement forms will be included in the Check with the Canadian consulate for further information. Everyone delegate packets.

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The search will remain open until a suitable with the organization or foundation ofinterest . For those who wish to publish candidate is found. Send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching ajob, fellowship/grant, or prize, please send an electronic version ofthe posting portfolio, three letters of recommendation, and a course proposal to: to hssexec@u. washington.edu. Dr. Seymour House, Assistant Academic Dean, Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon 97373; Fax: (503) 845-3126; e-mail: The Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, [email protected]. offers a three-year Postdoctoral Historian position for a historian of physics, astronomy, geophysics or an allied field. Ph.D. must be in North Central College, a comprehensive college of the liberal ans and hand at time employment stans (anytime Fall 2000 through Summer sciences located 30 miles west of Chicago, seeks a part-time instructor 2001). The Postdoctoral Historian's effort will be divided roughly to teach up to three sections of our general education course in the equally among (1) management and innovation in the Center's Web­ history/philosophy of science during the 2000-2001 academic year. based and other educational and outreach programs, seewww.aip.org/ More information about North Central College may be found at history, (2) oral history interviewing and other assistance to programs http://www.noctrl.edu. Applications and inquiries should be directed to preserve the history ofphysics and allied sciences, and (3) independent to Dr. David Horner, Professor of Chemistry and Physics; Chair of the research and publication in the field. There are also opportunities to Science Division, North Central College, P.O. Box 3063, Naperville, teach part-time in area universities. Competitive salary and benefits. IL 60566-7063, Phone: (630) 637-5192; Fax: (630) 637-5180. 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Committee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Stevens The fellowships are open to scholars of all nationalities who have Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, New completed their Ph.D. no earlier than 1995 and no later than Jersey 07030. Stevens Institute of Technology is an Affirmative September 2000. The stipend for applicants from abroad is 3600 OM Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. per month. Women are encouraged to apply. Qualifications being equal, precedence will be given to candidates with disabilities. The University oftexas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is looking for Applicants for both fellowships are invited to send a curriculum vitae, an author to research and write a comprehensive history of the Center. a brief research proposal (maximum 1000 words), and two letters of The proposed book will describe the environment that stimulated the recommendation by 30 April 2000 to: Max Planck Institute for the enabling legislation of the Center in 1941 and will trace the development HistoryofScience, "Walther Rathenau Fellowship" or "Lorenz Krueger and growth of the institution to its present standing. The deadline for Fellowship," Wilhelmstrasse 44, 1011 7 Berlin, Germany. receipt of proposals is 5:00 p.m., Friday 28 April 2000. Preference will be given to professional historians of medicine, science, or technology. 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J.R. Kantor Research Fellowship seeks to promote research in the Helen W allis Fellowship at the British Library offe rs a convenient and history of psychology and is supported by the sale of books published privileged working environment in the British Library. The fellow by the Principia Press and distributed by Archives of the History of will be treated like a member of the staff (i.e. not restricted to reading American Psychology (AHAP). Proposals that draw on any of the room hours) and will be provided with his/her own work-station, with resources of the archives are invited, but since this award is in honor an e-mail account and access to the Internet. In addition, the fellowship of Dr. Kantor, preference may be given to projects that are relevant to carries with it a voucher worth 300 pounds to be spent within the a behavioral viewpoint. The Fellowship is offered annually in the Library. The award honors the memory of the former Map Librarian amount of $750.00. It is intended to assist the recipient in meeting at the British Museum and then British Library, Dr. Helen Wallis travel and living expenses while procuring archival data. The deadline OBE (1967-86) and confers recognition by the Library on a scholar for submissions is 30 April 2000, with the announcement of the award whose work will promote the extended and complementary use of the recipient on 1 June 2000. For further information visit theAHAP web British Library's book and cartographic collections. Preference will be site http://www.uakron.edu/ahap/ or by calling or writing to: Dr. given to proposals that relate to the Library's collections and have an David B. Baker, Director, Archives of the History of American international dimension. The fellowship may be held as a full or part­ Psychology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4302; time appointment, and would normally be for 6-12 months. Closing Phone: (330) 972-8487; Fax: (330) 972-2093; E-mail: date: 1 May 2000. For more information contact: Tony Campbell, [email protected]. Map Librarian, British Library Map Library, 96 Euston Road, London NWl 2DB; Phone: +44 20 7412 7525; Fax: +44 20 7412 7780; Lawrence Memorial Award Committee invites nominations for the [email protected]; http://www.bl.uk/collections/maps. 2000 Lawrence Memorial Award. Honoring the memory of Dr. George H . M. Lawrence, founding Director of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, the Award ($1,000) is given yearly to P RIZES support travel for doctoral dissertation research in systematic botany horticulture, or the history of the plant sciences, including literature The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) invites d exploration. Major professors are urged to nominate outstanding submissions for its two Millennium Prize Essay Competitions. 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The deadline for entries is: 31 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and December 2000. Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Corporation jointly sponsor two $5000.00 fellowships in the History of American Obstetrics and gynecology each year. ACOG members and other qualified individuals COPENHAGEN are encouraged to apply. The recipients of the fellowships spend one The Niels Bohr Archive reports that its public semmar, ...I month in the Washington DC area working full-time to complete "Copenhagen and Beyond: The Interconnections between Drama, their specific historical research project. Applications and further Science, and History," was its best attended history of science ,, information about the fellowship can be obtained by contacting: The seminar to date. Using Michael Frayn's critically acclaimed play erican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Mrs. Susan "Copenhagen" as a starting point, the session featured historical "shworth, History Librarian/Archivist, 409 Twelfth Street, SW, perspectives by HSS member Robert Marc Friedman. Further Washington, DC 20024-2588; Phone: (202) 863-2578 or (202) information about the seminar will be posted on the NBA's new 863-2518; Fax: (202) 484-1595; [email protected]. Application Web site at www.nbi.dk/nba. deadline: 1 September 2000. Selection will be made and the recipient 18 HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER APRIL 2000

Southern Maine, Gorham Campus. For further information contact: FUTURE MEETINGS Prof. Betty Bayer, Cheiron Program Chair, Department ofPsychology Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456-3397. We invite you to peruse our Web site for listings ofhistory-of science­ [email protected]; Phone: (315) 781-3460; Fax: (315) 781-3348. related meeting annoucements and calls for papers. The following annoucements have been editedfor space. For a full description consult Portraiture and Scientific Identity, 23-24 June 2000, National the HSS Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec. Electronic Portrait Gallery, London. For more information contact Professor listings ofmeetings are updated every Friday morning. For those who wish Ludmilla Jordanova, School of World Art Studies and Museology, to publish a future meeting announcement or call for papers please send University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, an electronic version of the posting to us via e-mail at [email protected]. [email protected]. The Society does not assume responsibility for the accuracy ofany items, and interested persons should verifj all The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and details, especially deadlines, with the appropriate contact person. Social Studies of Science, 28 J une-1 July 2000, University of Sydney. For more information: Conference Secretary, AAHPSSS 2000, Unit Representing Animals at the End of the Century, 13-15 April 2000, for HPS, Carslaw Building F07, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For more information contact Australia.Tel: 61 2 9351 4226; Fax: 61 2 29351 4124; Nigel Rothfels and Drew Isenberg, Conference Organizers, Center for [email protected];http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/hps/newevents/ Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, AAHPSSS2000.html P.O. Box413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA, Tel: 414-229-4141; Fax: 414-229-5964; [email protected]. Science Communication, Education and the History of Science, 12- 13 July 2000, Royal Society, London. For more information: BSHS Science and Civil Society:Historical Perspectives,14-16 April 2000, conference office, 31 High Street, Stanford in the Vale, Oxon, SN7 UniversityofWisconsin-Madison. For more information and inquiries 8LH, United Kingdom. [email protected]; http:// about attending this workshop, contact Thomas Broman, www.ucl.ac. uk/ sts/bshs/ index.htm. [email protected] or Lynn Nyhart lknyhart@facstaff. wisc.ed; . http: I I polyglot.lss. wisc.edu/histsci/workshop.html. SSHM Annual Conference: Medicine - Magic - Religion, 17-18 Jul 2000, Southampton. Contact for registration details: Dr. Waltrau Midwest J unto for the History of Science, 14-16 April 2000, Kansas Ernst, Department of History, University of Southampton, City, M 0. For information please contact Eliseo Fernandez, Reference Southampton SOl 7 lBJ; [email protected]. Librarian, Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110. Tel: (816) 363-5020. Fax: (816) 926-8785. Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) on the History ofScience, Medicine, [email protected]. and Technology, 28-30 July 2000, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Abstracts (deadline 14 May 2000) of no more than West Coast History ofScience Society & UC/Stanford Workshop 300 words (for a paper presentation) or no more than 500 words (for in the History ofScience, 5-7 May 2000, Berkeley, California. This a working session) may be submitted electronically to: joint meeting will be co-hosted by the UCLA Center for Cultural [email protected] or by regular mail to: Gerard Fitzgerald, 240 History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and the UC Berkeley Baker Hall, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Office for History of Science and Technology. The Workshop will Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Please specify "paper" or "working session." take place on Friday, May 5, 2000, and the WCHSS on Saturday, May http://eserver.org/MAC2000. 6, and Sunday morning, May 7, on the Berkeley campus. ICES History Symposium: 100 Years of Science under ICES, 1-3 American Association for the History of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, August 2000, Helsinki, Finland. For more information contact the 17-21May2000. For more information, contact: Harry M. Marks, Symposium Convenor: Dr. Emory D. Anderson, NOAA/NMFS, Dept. of the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, The Johns Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA, Hopkins University, 1900 E. Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. Tel: +l 508 495 2317; Fax: +1 508 495 2393. emory. [email protected]. Putting Humans into Ecology, June 2000, Marine Biological Laboratories. For more information, contact Carla Chrisfield at the Fourth British-NorthAmericanJointMeetingofthe BSHS, CSHPS, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and HSS: What is to be done? History of Science in the New ([email protected]), or one of the seminar co-organizers, John Beatty Millennium, 3-6 August 2000, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. For mor<' - - ([email protected]); James Collins ([email protected]); or information, visit the Conference Web site at http:/ ([email protected]). depts.washington.edu/hssexec/2000/joint2000.html.

CHEIRON: The International Society for the History of the Conference on the History of Geologic Pioneers, 3-5 August 2000, Behavioral and Social Sciences, 22-25 June 2000, University of Troy, NY. For more information contact, Dr. Gerald M. Friedman, FUTURE MEETINGS 19

_ Rensselaer Center ofApplied Geology, (c/o Brooklyn College of the Writing the Past, Claiming the Future: Women and Gender in ·- ity UniversityofNew York, Brooklyn, New York) 15 Third Street, Science, Medicine, and Technology, 12-15 October 2000, Sr. Louis .0. Box 746, Troy, NY 12181-0746, [email protected], University. For more information contact Charlotte G. Borst, Chair, Fax: 518-273-3249. Local Arrangements Committee, Department of History, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., Sr. Louis, MO 63156. Conference International Congress of Historical Sciences, 6-13 August 2000, materials will be available after August 1, 2000. Oslo, Norway. Please send information requests to: The 19th International Congress ofHistorical Sciences, Department ofHistory, One Hundred Years of the Quantum: From Max Planck to P.O. Box 1008, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway. Entanglement, 29-30 October 2000, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Deadline for registration: September 1, 2000. For Transformation and Continuity in the History of Universities, details about the program, registration and lodging contact Prof. Alan International Commission for the History of Universities, 9-11 Thorndike, Dept. of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, August 2000, Oslo Congress; [email protected]; http:// WA 98416. (253) 879-381 [email protected]. www.hf.uio.no/ oslo2000/ unihist/. History ofScience Society, 2-5 November 2000, Vancouver, B. C. For The Open Book and Scholarship, 16-19 August 2000, Redeemer more information visit: http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/annual. College, Ontario, Canada. For more information contact: Elisabeth Di Francesco, Organizing Committee, Redeemer College, 777 Garner Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2-5 November 2000, Rd. E., Ancaster, ON, Canada, L9K 1J4 (905)648-2131 x4414 Cleaveland, OH. For more information contact: Gerhild Scholz [email protected]; Fax: (905)648-2134. Williams, Department ofGerman , Box 1104, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. Tel: 314-935-5151; Fax: 314-935-5188; Society for the History of Technology, 17-20 August 2000, Munich, gerhild_williams @aismail.wusd.edu. Germany. For details visit: http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/ shot/annual.htm. The Foundations ofQuantum Physics before 193 5, 14- 16 December 2000, Berlin. Please send a short abstract( maxim um one page) ofyour ottingen and the Development ofthe Natural Sciences: Perspectives proposed paper or request information before June 30, 2000 from the Place and the Professoriate, 23-26 Nov. 2000, Gottingen, Germany. secretary ofthe Program Committee: Dieter Hoffmann, Max-Planck­ For more information contact: Nicolaas Rupke, lnstitut fiir Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Wilhelmstrasse 44, 1011 7, Berlin; Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Humboldtallee 11 , D-37073 Gottingen, e-mail: [email protected]. Germany. [email protected]. Savannah River Plant Conference, 23-24 March 2001 , Aiken and Scientific Instrument Commission ofthe International Union of the Augusta. Prospective participants are invited to send a brief abstract History and Philosophy of Science, 4-8 September 2000, Oxford of their proposals to Eric Emerson, South Carolina Historical Society, UK. Further details are now available from the Conference Address: Charleston, SC 29401. Fax: (843)723-8584; Tel: (843)723-3225; XIX International Scientific Instrument Symposium, Museum of the [email protected]. The deadline is 31 May 2000. History ofScience , Broad Street, Oxford, OXl 3AZ, United Kingdom. Symposium International Galileo 2001, February 2001, Tenerife, 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine, 10-15 Spain. For more information contact The Fundaci6n Canaria Orotava September 2000, Galveston, Texas. For more information visit: de Historia de la Ciencia, Cl Calvario n 17, 383000 La Orotava, http://library.utmb.edu/ishm/. Tenerife. Tel: 922322761 Fax: 922322513, E-mail: [email protected]. 4S/EASST Meeting, 27-30 September 2000, Universiry of Vienna, Austria. For more information see http://www.univie. ac.at/ Making Environmental History Relevant in the 21st Century, First wissenschaftstheorie/. Joint Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History

~ (ASEH) and the Forest History Society (FHS), 28 March-1 April Bonds between Women and Water, 28-30 September 2000, Duluth, 2001 ,Durham, NC. For more information, (proposals due 1 August I MN. For more information: http://www.d.umn.edu/women_water/ 2000) contact members of the program committee: Dale Goble, or contact [email protected]. University ofldaho College ofLaw, [email protected] or Paul Hirt, The 25th annual Great Lakes History Conference, 5-6 October Washington State University, [email protected]. ' '000, Grand Rapids, MI. Please address all inquiries and abstracts deadline 1 May 2000) to Dr. Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin, Department American Association of the History of Medicine, 18-22 April of History, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401. 2001 , Charleston, SC. Please send six copies of a one page abstract [email protected]. Fax: 616-895-3285. Tel: (616) 895-3445. (350 words maximum) to Janet Golden, History Department, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102. 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