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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

John W. Abrams is Director and Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He has published on education in the history of science, and his research interests are in the history of astronomy and technology.

Lawrence Badash teaches in the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is at work on a biography of Rutherford, having recently edited Rutherford and Boltwood, Letters on Radioactivity and completed a cata- logue of the Rutherford correspondence.

Alex Berman holds a joint appointment at the University of Cincinnati as Professor of His- torical Studies in Pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy and Professor of History in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. His main research and writing in recent years have been on nineteenth-century French pharmacy.

Heinz Cassebaum, in addition to his professional research in the pharmaceutical-chemical industry, is an active historian of chemistry. The holder of a number of patents, he has written a series of articles on synthetic organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, and physical chemistry as well as historical studies of indigo dyeing, benzene theory, and saccharine.

Carl W. Condit is Professor of Art and Urban Affairs and a member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the History of Science and Technology at Northwestern University. He is a former president of the Midwest Junto for the History of Science and is co-editor, with Eugene Ferguson, of Technology and Culture.

Stilman Drake, at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, specializes in physical science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly the work of Galileo.

Thomas F. Glick, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, is the author of Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia. He is directing a conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism, sponsored by the ACLS and the University of Texas, to be held in Austin in April 1972.

I. Grattan-Guinness is Principal Lecturer in Mathematics at Enfield College of Technology, Middlesex, England. He is the author of The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann and (with J. R. Ravetz) Joseph Fourier 1768-1830. He is currently working on a history of mathematical logic and on methodological questions in the history of science.

Norriss S. Hetherington teaches history of science at Atkinson College, York University. His main research interest is the history of astronomy, particularly modem cosmology, and he is at present developing a history of astronomy course to illustrate the intellectual structure and methods of science.

J. E. Hofmann has written and taught ex- tensively in the history of mathematics over a forty-year period. His main works include a history of the development of Leibnizean mathematics and a three-volume history of mathematics.

William Powell Jones, Emeritus Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University, has examined the relations of science and literature in such works as The Rhetoric of Science: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Imagery in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry. He is currently writing a history of science in England, 1660-1 800.

George B. Kauffman, Professor of Chemistry at the California State College at Fresno and Chairman of the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for 1970, is the author of Classics in Coordination Chemistry, Part I (1968). He is now at work on a history of coordination chemistry.

H. W. Kirby is a Senior Research Specialist at Mound Laboratory, where since 1946 he has been investigating the chemical and nuclear properties of the naturally occurring radio- elements. He has published monographs on the radiochen'irstry of radium, actinium, and pro- tactinium.

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Sally G. Kohlstedt, a member of the History Department at Simmons College, Boston, is presently completing a Ph.D. dissertation on the formative years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interest is science in America, especially its institutional development.

Alan Mackay is Reader in Crystallography at Birkbeck College, University of London, in the department founded by J. D. Bemal. The past, present, and future of science, particularly in the Far East, have become important secondary interests, pursued in conjunction with the study of the structure of solids.

Jacques Marx, at the Universit6 libre de Bruxelles, is preparing a doctoral thesis on "La renomm6e europeenne de Charles Bonnet au XVIIP siecle." He has published in many joumals specializing in the eighteenth century, particularly in the history of ideas and philosophy (E. Luzac, Formey, Restif de la Bretonne, Joseph de Maistre).

Kenneth 0. May, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, has recently completed a biography of Gauss (for the DSB) and an indexed bibliography and research manual for the history of mathematics (to be published by the University of Toronto Press).

Josef Mayerhofer, Wirklicher Hofrat at the Austrian National Library, Vienna, is also Secretary General of the Austrian Institute for Library Research. He is a Corresponding Member of the Academie Intemational d'Histoire des Sciences and founder of the Lexikon der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften (Vienna, 1959-).

Uta Merzbach, in the Physical Sciences Division, Museum of History and Technology, Smith- sonian Institution, is an historian of mathematics who has recently been working on the history of computers.

M. E. Mitchell is Lecturer in Botany at Uni- versity College, Galway, Ireland. In the history of science his current research interest centers on seventeenth-century Irish botany.

Robert J. Morris, Jr. is Associate Professor of History of Science, Oregon State University. He is presently on sabbatical leave, investigating problems related to late-eighteenth-century theories of heat.

Robert P. Multhauf, Editor of Isis and author of Origins of Chemistry, is engaged in research at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology on the relationship between science and technology in the industrialization of chemistry, 1750-1850.

Charles F. O'Brien, Assistant Professor of History at Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York, is interested especially in American intellectual history and Canadian-American relations.

Stuart Pierson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. His research interests include the history of chemistry and French science, 1750-1850.

MartinPlessner,ProfessorEmeritus inlslamology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and J. W. Goethe- Universitat, Frankfurt, is the author of Vorso- kratische Philosophie und griechische Alchemie in arabisch-lateinischer Ueberlieferung (in press).

G. S. Rousseau, Associate Professor of English and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities at UCLA, is particularly interested in the relationship between science and literature and the role of imagination in both realms.

Charles B. Schmitt is currently Research Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is a A Critical Survey and Bibliography of Studies on Renaissance Aristotelianism, 1958-1969 (1971).

H. A. M. Snelders is at the Institute of the History of Mathematics and the Inorganic Natural Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. He is preparing a study on the influence of Kant, Romanticism, and Naturphilosophie on the inorganic natural sciences at the end of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth.

Roger H. Stuewer is Associate Professor in the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and the School of Physics and Astronomy. He has recently edited Volume V of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Deborah Jean Warner, Curator in History of Astronomy at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology, is currently engaged in a history of celestial cartography.



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