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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreKen Alder is a Professor of History at Northwestern University where he directs the Science in Human Culture Program. He is the author of Engineering the Revolution (1997/2010), The Measure of All Things (2002), and The Lie Detectors (2007).Ori Belkind is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. He specializes in the history and philosophy of physics and has published papers on Newton's method. He recently published a book entitled Physical Systems: Conceptual Pathways between Spacetime and Matter (Springer).Adam Bencard is an assistant professor in science communication at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research and at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. His work is split evenly between practical museum work and theoretical research, and his research interest is focused on embodiment, aesthetics, and what it means to be human in a postgenomic world.Alan Beyerchen is a member of the Department of History at Ohio State University, where he teaches primarily nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history.Charlotte Bigg is a historian of science at the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris. She has coedited (with Jochen Hennig) Atombilder: Ikonografie des Atoms in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts (Wallstein, 2009) and (with David Aubin and Otto Sibum) The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture (Duke, 2010).Eve Buckley teaches Latin American history and the history of science and medicine at the University of Delaware. She is revising her first book, based on her dissertation completed at the University of Pennsylvania, for publication; it is entitled Transforming Brazil's Desert: Drought, Poverty, and Technocratic Failure in Modern Latin America.Silvia Caianiello is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council's Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno (ISPF) in Naples. Her main research interests are in the history and epistemology of evolutionary theory since the late nineteenth century, with a particular focus on evolutionary developmental biology.Gregoire Chamayou is a French CNRS researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. He is the author of Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.Michael Chazan, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Centre at the University of Toronto, specializes in the study of prehistoric technology. He is codirector of a research project on the Earlier Stone Age of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.D'Maris Coffman received her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.Sc. in economics from the Wharton School. She is the Mary Bateson Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Director of the Centre for Financial History there.Matthew Farish is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Contours of America's Cold War (2010) and is writing a history of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.Jean-Paul Gaudillière is Senior Researcher at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche and Director of the Center for Sciences, Medicine, Health, and Society (Cermes) in Paris. His work has addressed many aspects of the history and sociology of the biomedical sciences during the twentieth century. His current research focuses on issues regarding the history of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and the globalization of health after World War II.Hélène Gispert is Professor of History of Science at Paris Sud University. Her research fields are history of mathematics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in France and Europe, history of mathematical and scientific journals, and history of mathematics teaching in France.Sara Stidstone Gronim is an associate professor of history at Long Island University—Post. She is the author of Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York (2007) and of articles on astrology, cartography, smallpox inoculation, and botany in the early modern period.Jacob Darwin Hamblin is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is the author of Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Rutgers, 2008) and Oceanographers and the Cold War (Washington, 2005).Markku Hokkanen is Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His publications include Medicine and Scottish Missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region, 1875–1930: Quests for Health in a Colonial Society (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).Michael Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the principal editor of the Works, Correspondence, and work diaries of Robert Boyle and the author of Boyle: Between God and Science (2009), as well as many other books on the intellectual history of early modern England.Anja Skaar Jacobsen has taught history and philosophy of science at the University of Aarhus, the University of Copenhagen, Roskilde University, and the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Copenhagen. She is the author of Léon Rosenfeld—Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (World Scientific, 2012). She is now working as a science teacher at Ordrup Gymnasium, Denmark.Jeremiah James is a scientific coworker at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is a coauthor of One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics: The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, 1911–2011 (De Gruyter, 2011). His research focuses on twentieth-century physical chemistry and chemical physics.David Knight has taught history of science at Durham University in England since 1964 and is a former President of the British Society for the History of Science. He published The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Modernity, 1789–1914, in 2009 (Polity) and is writing a book on the Scientific Revolution.Manfred D. Laubichler is President's Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology at Arizona State University. He is Director of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and Associate Director of the Origins Project at ASU, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, an Adjunct Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.Daryn Lehoux is Professor of Classics at Queen's University. He is the author of What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking (Chicago, 2012) and Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2007), as well as the co-editor (with A. D. Morrison and A. Sharrock) of Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (Oxford, 2013).Rainer Leng is Associate Professor for Medieval History at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His publications include Anleitung Schieβpulver zu bereiten (2000), Franz Helm und sein Buch von den probierten Künsten (2001), and Ars belli (2 vols.; 2002). He works in medieval history, history of science and technology, and illustrated technical manuscripts.Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, where he is Director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies. He is also the Editor of the History of Science Society's flagship journal, Isis. His most recent publications include Victorian Popularizers of Science, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain, and Science in the Marketplace (coedited with Aileen Fyfe). Lightman is also General Editor of a monograph series titled “Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century,” published by Pickering & Chatto. He is currently working on a biography of John Tyndall and is one of the editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall.Ilana Löwy is a senior researcher at INSERM, France. Her research follows the interactions between laboratory sciences, clinical medicine, and public health. Her latest book is A Woman's Disease: The History of Cervical Cancer (Oxford University Press, 2011). She is working now on the history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor, President's Professor, and Parents Association Professor at Arizona State University, where she directs the Center for Biology and Society. She is the author or (co)editor of fifteen books, including Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells, and a Past President of the History of Science Society.Pauline M. H. Mazumdar is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. She is the author of studies on the history of immunology and of human genetics and eugenics. She is now working on a monograph (just about finished!) on the Health Organization of the League of Nations and its biological standardization project.Massimo Mazzotti is Director of the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and the editor of Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes (Ashgate, 2008).Rebecca Messbarger is Professor of Italian and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University. Her research centers on the Italian Enlightenment, particularly the history of anatomy and women's exceptional cultural authority during the age. Her most recent book is The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini (University of Chicago Press, 2010).Carla Nappi is the Canada Research Chair of Early Modern Studies and Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She works in the history of China, of science and medicine, and of early modern translation. Her first book, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard, 2009) analyzed the construction of evidence, proof, and belief in the Bencao gangmu (1596). Her current work explores the history of translations among words, things, and bodies across early modern Eurasia, paying special attention to epistemic and textual architecture and the objects that emerge from it.Alfred Nordmann teaches history and philosophy of science and of technoscience at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He has published extensively on the scientific philosophy of Heinrich Hertz. Recent publications include Science Transformed, coedited with Gregor Schiemann and Hans Radder (Pittsburgh), and Science in the Context of Application, coedited with Martin Carrier (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science).Lynn K. Nyhart is Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and currently President of the History of Science Society. She is currently working on a project on the history of concepts of biological part-whole relations and individuality in the nineteenth century.Benjamin B. Olshin is Associate Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science and Technology at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His research areas include the history of cartography and exploration, ancient science and engineering, the philosophy of contemporary physics, and traditional modes of knowledge transmission.Donald L. Opitz teaches history of science at DePaul University. He coedited, For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences (Birkhäuser, 2012). In addition to extending his research on women in the sciences of horticulture and agronomy, he is writing a book on the Victorian scientific aristocracy.Carla Rita Palmerino is Professor of the History of Philosophy and of Science at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and at the Open University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century theories of matter and motion and on the role of thought experiments in the history of science and philosophy.Emily Pawley is Assistant Professor of History at Dickinson College. She is completing a manuscript on American agricultural knowledge and the market in the first half of the nineteenth century.Michael Pettit is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Science and Technology Studies at York University. His first book is The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).Nicholas Popper is Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He specializes in the intellectual culture of early modern Britain. His forthcoming book is entitled Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2012).Patricia Princehouse teaches evolutionary biology and the history and philosophy of science at Case Western Reserve University.Camilo Quintero is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. His research focuses on the place of science and the environment in the relations between the United States and Latin America. His book, Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation: A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States–Colombia Relations, will appear soon.Amanda Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Her most recent book is The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and she is now working on a history of popular accounts of field science.Timothy Reiss is Emeritus Professor at New York University. His most recent books are Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange, Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe, and three edited collections. He is completing a book on Descartes and his age and two rethinking “Europe's” Renaissance via American and African cultural exchanges.Jürgen Renn is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He has published extensively on a range of topics: structural changes in systems of knowledge in the natural sciences, comparative studies of the emergence and development of mechanical thinking in Europe and China, the history of Chinese science and studies on the relativity revolution, in particular the genesis of general relativity.Lucas Richert is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. He has published works on American politics and health policy. His current research project examines American psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry in the 1960s.Alex Roland is Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. The author of Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915–1958 (1985), and coeditor, with Peter Galison, of Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (2000), he is now writing a biography of Robert Fulton.Benjamin J. Sacks is a doctoral candidate in history and history of science at Princeton University. He is the Book Reviews Editor for New Global Studies (De Gruyter Press), an elected fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a 2009 recipient of the national Beinecke Scholarship.Atia Sattar is Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature and History at Penn State. Her research examines the relationship between aesthetics and scientific inquiry from the nineteenth century to the present. Her book project, Visceral Aesthetics, argues for a consideration of aesthetics and embodiment in the epistemology of nineteenth-century medicine.Kathleen L. Sheppard is an assistant professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. She studies the history of Egyptology in Britain. Her current project is a biography of Margaret Alice Murray, the first female professional Egyptologist in Britain, due in mid-2013.Stephanie Snow is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester. The author of Operations without Pain (Palgrave, 2006) and Blessed Days of Anaesthesia (Oxford University Press, 2008), she is now working on a global history of stroke since the 1950s and a contemporary history of Guy's and St Thomas' in London.Marianne Sommer is Professor of Cultural Studies and SNF-Professor of the History of Science and Science Studies at the University of Lucerne. In her project “History Within: The Phylogenetic Memory of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules,” she analyzes the contributions of the historical life sciences to cultures of remembrance during the twentieth century.Ida Stamhuis (VU University Amsterdam and Aarhus University) is the Editor of Centaurus. She was involved in a collaborative study of the “Statistical Mind” in the Netherlands (1750–1940). Work on the important role of female researchers in the early history of genetics is another collective endeavor.Hallam Stevens received his Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard in 2010 and is now an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research includes work on the intersections between the life sciences and information technology, the history of biotechnology, and biotechnology in Southeast Asia.Laurence Totelin is a lecturer in ancient history at Cardiff University. She works on the history of ancient medicine, pharmacology, and botany. Her publications include Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Recipes in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece (Brill, 2009).Karin Tybjerg is an associate professor at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. She is working on medical automation and preparing exhibitions on human remains and biohacking. In addition, she has published on seventeenth-century astronomy and ancient mechanics and mathematics.Karin Verelst teaches philosophy of science at the Arts College RITS of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. She edited a Foundations of Science special issue on seventeenth-century conceptions of space with Maarten Van Dyck. Her recent papers include “Newton vs. Leibniz: Intransparency vs. Inconsistency,” which will appear shortly in Synthese.Mark Walker teaches the history of science and technology, as well as modern European history, at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has recently coedited books that examine the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the German Physical Society, and the German Research Foundation under National Socialism. 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