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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsNotes on ContributorsCorrections to this articleErrataPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreVincent K. Bontems is a researcher at the LARSIM laboratory, CEA‐Saclay (France), and is General Secretary of the Centre de Synthèse. He is a former student at the École Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines (ENS‐LSH), and has a Ph.D. in philosophy and history of science and technics.Robert M. Brain was an associate professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, and in 2004 joined the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the co‐editor, most recently, of Hans Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science: Ideas, Disciplines, Practices (Springer, 2007).William H. Brock is Professor Emeritus of History of Science at the University of Leicester. His William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science (Ashgate, 2008) was awarded the 2009 Roy G. Neville Prize for Bibliography of Biography by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.Laurence Brockliss is fellow and tutor in history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and author of several books on the history of the Republic of Letters, higher education, and medicine in early modern France.Joan Cadden is a medievalist and Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Davis. She currently works on the manuscript tradition of the Aristotelian Problemata, natural philosophical explanations of male homosexual pleasure, and the dissemination of natural philosophy and learned medicine among women.Sandro Caparrini currently holds the Kenneth O. May postdoctoral fellowship at University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. In 2004, his paper “Early Theories of Vectors” won the Slade Prize, awarded biennially by the the British Society for the History of Science.Michael C. Carhart is Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Virginia, and is the author of The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard, 2007).Amy Eisen Cislo is a lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her book, Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe (Pickering and Chatto) will appear in April 2010.Sabine Clarke is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. She is currently writing a book about the relationship between scientific research into industrial and medical uses of cane sugar and economic development plans for the British West Indies after 1940.Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History, Iowa State University. He edited Great Depression: Peoples and Perspectives (ABC‐Clio, 2009), coedited and contributed to Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America (Oregon State University Press, 2009), and is author of the forthcoming scholarly synthesis, Imagining the Good Society: The Social Sciences in the American Past and Present, with Cambridge University Press.Deborah Blythe Doroshow is a third year graduate student in the History of Science and Medicine program at Yale University and a fourth year medical student at Harvard Medical School. Her interests include therapeutics, the mind sciences, and children's health in twentieth‐century America.Ruthann M. Dyer is Assistant Professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at York University. Her research has included examination of the Blaschka animal models as objects of science and culture with emphasis on their uses in education in North America. She is currently examining the role of Jumbo in science and natural history education.M. D. Eddy is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Durham University. He is author of The Language of Mineralogy: Chemistry, John Walker and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800 (2008) and, with David Knight, is editor of Science and Beliefs (2005) and William Paley's Natural Theology (2006, 2008). He is currently writing a book on print culture and natural history in late Enlightenment Scotland.David C. Engerman is Associate Professor of History of Brandeis Unviersity. His books include Modernization from the Other Shore and Know Your Enemy. His current project, “The Global Politics of the Modern: India and the Three Worlds of the Cold War,” is supported by a Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS.Paul Erickson is Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University.Giovanni Ferraro is a historian of mathematics. His main research interest is sixteenth‐, seventeenth‐, and eighteenth‐century mathematics. He has recently published The Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s (Springer, 2008) and Bernardino Baldi e il recupero del pensiero tecnico‐scientifico dell'antichità (Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008).Martin Fichman is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and History at York University (Toronto). He is the author of four books, including An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace (2004). He is currently working on the scientific and cultural context of vaccination debates in the Victorian era and their relation to contemporary vaccination controversies.Brian Garvey is a lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University. He is the author of Philosophy of Biology (McGill/Queen's University Press, 2007), and has published articles in Inquiry, Biology and Philosophy, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and other journals.Barbara T. Gates is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988) and Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World (1998). Her edited works include the Journal of Emily Shore (1991; electronic 2006), Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, with Ann B. Shteir (1997), In Nature's Name (2002), and editions of Victorian science writers Arabella Buckley (2003) and Eliza Brightwen (2004).Michael D. Gordin is Professor of History of Science at Princeton University. He is the author of A Well‐Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (2004), and Red Cloud at Dawn: Stalin, Truman, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (2009), as well as other related works.Katja Guenther is an assistant professor in the History Department at Princeton University where she teaches in the History of Science program. She specializes in the history of modern medicine and the mind sciences.David E. Hahm is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He is author of The Origins of Stoic Cosmology, and articles on Hellenistic philosophy and Greek and Roman intellectual and cultural history.Roger Hahn is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the now‐classic Anatomy of a Scientific Institution. The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666–1803. Since his latest biography of Laplace, he has been working on the mathematical theory of elasticity in the nineteenth century.Thomas L. Hankins is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington. He is currently studying the history of graphs in science.Darin Hayton is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Haverford College. His research explores how late medieval and Renaissance princes employed astrology and other forms of natural knowledge in their politics. He focuses on the German and central European contexts.Colin A. Hempstead retired in 1999 having been Reader in the History of Science and Technology at Teesside University, England. At present he is researching two British infrared air‐to‐air missiles developed in the 1950s, and he hopes to write an account of this research in due course.Christopher R. Henke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colgate University and the author of Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California (MIT Press, 2008).Klaus Hentschel is Professor of History of Science and Technology and head of the pertinent section in the historical institute of Stuttgart University. His most recent publication is a Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy (Springer, 2009), coedited with Dan Greenberger and Friedel Weinert.Hunter Heyck is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Oklahoma and author of Herbert A. Simon: the bounds of reason in modern America (JHU Press, 2005). His current projects include a study of the relationship between the organizational revolution and emergence of “systems thinking,” with the working title The Branching Tree, and a thematic survey of the history of modern technology to be titled Artifice: Creating a Chosen World.David Kaiser is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Department of Physics. Kaiser works on the history of modern physics. His books include “Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics” (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and “How the Hippies Saved Physics” (W. W. Norton, 2011). Recent edited volumes include “Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” (MIT Press, 2005), and “Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision” (MIT Press, 2010). His research has received awards from the History of Science Society, the British Society for the History of Science, and the American Physical Society. He has also received several teaching awards from Harvard and MIT.David Knight has taught history of science at Durham University since 1964. His latest books are Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas (Routledge, 2006) and The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity, 1789–1914 (Polity Press, 2009).Rebecca Lemov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. Her first book was World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes and Men (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); she is currently working on a historical project titled Database of Dreams: Making a Science of the Human, 1941–1962, about innovations in gathering and storing subjective materials during the mid‐Twentieth Century.James G. Lennox Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals (Oxford, 2001) and Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge, 2001). He has been awarded fellowships at the Center for Hellenic Studies; Clare Hall, Cambridge, and the Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Bologna. He was Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (1997–2005).Ilana Lowy is a professor at the Centre de Recherche Medicine, Science Santé et Societé, Paris, France. Her research is currently focused on new medical technologies, particularly genetic screening.Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, Canada. A historian of visual culture, she has published on images of the unborn in seventeenth‐century France, notably in her book Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France (2005).Kristy Macrakis is a historian of science and of espionage. Her research interests include the politics of techno‐science, science in Nazi Germany and Post‐War Germany, Cold War espionage including the East German Ministry for State Security. She is currently writing a book on the history of invisible ink from ancient to modern times. Her books include: Surviving the Swastika (Oxford, 1993), Science under Socialism (Harvard, 1999), Seduced by Secrets (Cambridge, 2008 [A History Book Club featured selection, translations include German (Herbig, 2009) and Slovak (IKAR, 2010)] and East German Foreign Intelligence (Routledge, 2009). She is the recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the National Science Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, and Fulbright.Thomas J. Misa directs the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches in the Graduate Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine and is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His latest volume is Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing (Wiley/IEEE Computer Society Press, forthcoming 2010).Michael J. Neufeld is Chair of the Space History Division at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. His Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (2007) won three book prizes and has been translated into Danish and German.Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (with Frank Trocco, Harvard University Press) was the winner of the 2003 silver award for popular culture “Book of the Year” of Foreword Magazine. He is currently researching online communities and the product reviewing process.Theodore M. Porter is a professor in the Department of History, UCLA, and author most recently of Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. His main research now concerns how asylums, schools for feebleminded children, and related institutions became sites for the investigation of human heredity.Patricia Radelet‐de Grave has a Ph.D. in physics, and teaches the history of mathematics and physics at the University of Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium). She is the General Editor of the Bernoulli Edition (Birkhäuser). She and Edoardo Benvenuto published the first volume of the series Between Mechanics and Architecture (1995), and she is the author of many articles on the history of mathematics and physics, and on their relations with music and painting.Sue V. Rosser currently serves as the Provost at San Francisco State University. Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and also Professor of Public Policy and History, Technology, and Society from 1999 to 2009, she has authored twelve books and over 130 articles on theoretical and applied issues of women in science, technology, and health.Michael Rossi is a PhD candidate in the HASTS program at MIT. His dissertation examines color science in the United States between 1879 and 1931.Pedro Ruiz‐Castell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research and publications focus on the history of physics and allied sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science in the public sphere, and scientific instruments. He is the author of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Spain (1850–1914).Eric Schatzberg is Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he focuses on the cultural history of technology. He is writing a book on the history of the concept of technology.Robert W. Seidel is Professor of History of Science at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in the history of national laboratories, technology transfer, and chemical engineering.David Sepkoski is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His most recent book is The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology, which he coedited with Michael Ruse.Grace Shen is Assistant Professor in Humanities at York University and is currently at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her most recent article on the history of modern Chinese geology appeared in Osiris 24 (2009), and she is working on a study of “coal culture” in China.Heather Stanley is a third year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. She is currently working on her dissertation which examines history of sexuality in marriage during Canada's baby boom. She also has researched the history of midwifery in nineteenth‐century Britain.Matthew Stanley is associate professor of individualized study at NYU. He teaches and researches history of science and religion, and history of the modern physical sciences. He is the author of Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington (Chicago, 2007).Edith Sylla is Professor Emerita of History at North Carolina State University. She will be a Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences visiting professor at Nijmegen in 2010 and 2011.Daniel Patrick Thurs is currently a Faculty Fellow/Assistant Professor at the Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program at NYU. His current project examines the rhetorical nature of “the public” as an audience for and a subject of science over the twentieth century, particularly through the lens of mass panic.Philip van der Eijk is Research Professor of Greek at Newcastle University. He has published on Graeco‐Roman medicine and philosophy, comparative literature, and Early Christian thought.Zuoyue Wang is a Professor of history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, teaching the history of science and technology and US history. His book In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America was published by Rutgers University Press (hardback in 2008 and paperback in 2009). He is writing a transnational history of Chinese American scientists.Andre Wakefield is Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. His books include The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice (Chicago, 2009) and, with Claudine Cohen, an edited translation of G. W. Leibniz's Protogaea (Chicago, 2008). He is working on a book about Leibniz's ventures and misadventures with wind machines in the Harz Mountains.Virginia Yans is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she is a member of the History Department and Co‐Director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She has written several essays on Margaret Mead, and produced and wrote an award‐winning PBS Special Documentary on Mead's life and work. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 101, Number 2June 2010 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/655747 Views: 7Total views on this site © 2010 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.Related articlesErrata17 Jul 2015Isis