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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Davis Baird received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University in 1981. Portions of his dissertation on significance tests will appear in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science. He is now an assistant professor at the Uni- versity of South Carolina.

Roy Bhaskar is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and the author of A Realist Theory of Science (2nd ed., 1978) and The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences (1979).

Joan Bromberg has just finished a history of the United States fusion energy program, Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source (MIT, 1982).

Richard Burian is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University. His principal fields of interest are history and philosophy of biology, relations between history and philosophy of science, and various problems re- garding conceptual change in science.

Elof Axel Carlson is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Gene: A Critical History (1966) and Genes, Radiation and Society: The Life and Work of H. J. Muller (1981).

Edward W. Constant II is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie-Mellon University and the author of The Origins of the Turbojet Rev- olution (1980).

Ruth Schwartz Cowan is Associate Professor of History at SUNY, Stony Brook. She is the author of several articles on the connections between biological and political theory in the work of Sir Francis Galton.

Michael J. Crowe is Professor in the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science and in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is completing a book on the history of the extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1910.

Hannah S. Decker is Associate Professor of History, University of Houston, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine. She has published Freud in Germany: Revolution and Reaction in Science and is working on Freud's case of "Dora."

David Edge is Reader in Science Studies and Director of the Science Studies Unit at Edin- burgh University. He is editor of Social Studies of Science and wrote Astronomy Transformed with Michael Mulkay (1976) and edited Science in Context with Barry Barnes (1982).

Raymond E. Fancher is Professor of Psychol- ogy at York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada. His books include Pioneers of Psychol- ogy, and he is writing a biographical history of the nature-nurture and IQ controversies and a psychological biography of Francis Galton.

Paul Lawrence Farber is Associate Professor of the History of Science at Oregon State Uni- versity. He is the author of The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760- 1850 (1982).

Bernard Finn, Chairman of the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, has special interests in the history of electrical technology and has recently written on thermoelectricity and submarine telegraphy.

Robert Friedel is Director of the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in New York. His publications include articles on chemical and electrical technology and a forthcoming book on the introduction of plastics.

Russell I. Fries is Associate Professor of His- tory at the University of Maine. He has worked on the early development of the American Sys- tem in the United States and British response to that system. He is studying Reed & Barton, Silversmiths, and modern marketing.

Jan V. Golinski is a graduate student in the Division of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Leeds, England, completing a dissertation on chemical lecturing in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Frederic Lawrence Holmes is Chairman of the Section of History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and former president of the History of Science Society. He is the author of Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry (1974) and will soon complete Lavoisier and the Chem- istry of Life.

Toby E. Huff is Professor of Sociology at South- eastern Massachusetts University. His edition of

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Benjamin Nelson, On the Roads to Modernity, is reviewed in this issue of Isis. He is completing Discovery and Explanation: An Essay on the Logic and Method of Sociology.

Sarah Hutton is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the Hatfield Polytechnic. Her thesis explored the Elizabethan concept of time and she is working on seventeenth-century Neo- platonism.

S. A. Jayawardene retired recently from the staff of the Science Museum Library, London, where he now holds a fellowship. His Reference Books for the Historian of Science: A Handlist is reviewed in this issue of Isis; he is working on a cumulative index to Boncompagni's Bul- lettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, 1868-87.

Stuart Jenks holds a Yale doctorate, taught medieval history at the Free University of Berlin (1976-1981), and is completing his Habilitation. He has published on English economic, Fran- conian, and Hanseatic history.

George Kish, William Herbert Hobbs Professor of Geography at the University of Michigan, is interested in regional geography of Europe and the USSR, and the history of geography and cartography. His books include A Source Book in Geography (1978) and La Carte: Image des civilisations (1980).

Malcolm Jay Kottler is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology in the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. His current research includes the history of mimicry theory and David Lack's contribution to the evolutionary synthesis.

Bruce Kuklick is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (1977) and Churchmen and Philosophers: Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (forthcoming).

James Larson is Professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature at Berkeley. His work has chiefly concerned eighteenth-century natural history in northern Europe.

Timothy Lenoir is Assistant Professor of His- tory at the University of Arizona. His current research deals with the development of physiol- ogy in Germany between 1790 and 1870.

Harry Liebersohn is the recipient of a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and writing a history of sociology in Imperial Germany. An article of his on Leopold von

Wiese appeared in the European Journal of Sociology in 1982.

Karl von Meyenn is a scientific associate in History of Natural Science and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. He taught physics before turning to the history of physics in 1975. He is now editing a collection of the scientific correspondence of Wolfgang Pauli.

William Montgomery is Associate Editor of the Darwin Letters Project and the forthcoming Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin. He is also Associate Editor of Isis.

Robert P. Multhauf, a former president of the History of Science Society and former editor of Isis, is Senior Scientific Scholar at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian In- stitution. He is the author of Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt (1978).

Catherine J. Osborne, a research student at King's College, Cambridge, has just completed a doctoral thesis on the evidence for Presocratic philosophy preserved by Hippolytus of Rome. She also has an article on perception in Aristotle's De anima forthcoming in Classical Quarterly (1983).

John Parascandola is Professor of History of Pharmacy and History of Science at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Madison. He is working on a study of John J. Abel and the development of American pharmacology.

H. W. Paul is Professor of European History at the University of Florida. His forays into the history of science in France since the Second Empire serve as a cover for more intriguing experiments in the Parisian palaces of gastro- nomic delight.

David Pingree is Professor of History of Math- ematics at Brown University. He is author and editor of many books and articles on the history of Indian science, including The Yavanajataka of Sphudjidhvaja.

Charlotte M. Porter is Assistant Curator at the Florida State Museum and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is completing a book on natural history and Amer- ican ideas following the War of 1812 and devel- oping a television mini-series called "SunSpots," emphasizing science in the South.

Claus Priesner is a member of the Research Institute for the History of Science and Tech- nology of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the author of H. Staudinger, H. Mark, und K. H. Meyer, reviewed in Isis, March 1982.

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He continues to concentrate his research on the history of polymer chemistry.

Carroll Pursell teaches the history of technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He writes also on the history of science in the federal government and is secretary of the Society for the History of Technology. The cur- ious will find a picture of him in the volume under review.

Helena Pycior is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is writing a study of nineteenth-century British algebra.

Karen Reeds, a sponsoring editor at the Uni- versity of California Press, studies the history of pre-Linnaean botany and the history of the book. With the help of a computer and an NIH grant, she and Henry Lowood are preparing an inventory of medical and scientific books in medieval libraries.

Joan L. Richards is Assistant Professor of His- tory at Brown University. She is working on an intellectual biography of Augustus De Morgan.

Shirley A. Roe is spending 1983-1984 as an NEH Fellow at University College, London, and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, preparing an edition of the Bonnet- Needham correspondence. She is the author of Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth- Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate (1981).

David Rosner teaches history and health care administration at Baruch College and Mount Sinai Medical School. He is author of A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915 (1982). This year he is an NEH Fellow at the Hastings Center in New York State.

Michael Ruse is the author of several books on evolutionary thought, including Darwinism De- fended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies (1982). As soon as the threat of creationism is vanquished, he intends to spend much more time with his greatest love: cooking.

Simon Schaffer lectures in history of science at Imperial College, London. He has published on the history of astronomy and eighteenth- century natural philosophy and has recently produced three papers on the work of William Herschel.

Erhard Scholz is in the Mathematics Depart- ment of the Gesamthochschule-Universitat Wup- pertal. He is working on teachers' education

and the history of mathematics. His special interests are nineteenth-century geometry and relations between theoretical developments and practical applications.

Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus is a professor at the Institute d'Histoire et de Sociopolitique des Sciences of the University of Montreal. The author of Les scientifiques et la paix, she works on political history of science and science policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

John W. Servos is Assistant Professor of His- tory of Science at Princeton University. His articles on the history of chemistry have appeared in Isis and Ambix. He is writing a book on the history of physical chemistry.

Steven Shapin lectures at the Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh University. He has published a number of papers on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish science as well as studies of post-Restoration English science and its social uses.

Martin S. Staum, Associate Professor of His- tory at the University of Calgary, is the author of Cabanis: Enlightenment and Medical Phil- osophy in the French Revolution (1980) and co- editor of Doctors, Patients, and Society (1981). He is preparing a study of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences of the French National Institute, 1795-1803.

Keir B. Sterling is Adjunct Professor of His- tory at Pace University. His works in progress include a biographical dictionary of North Amer- ican environmentalists and a history of North American ornithology. The first volume of his International History of Mammalogy will appear this year.

Paul Theerman is Assistant Editor of the Joseph Henry Papers at the Smithsonian In- stitution. His interests are in science and culture, and he is working on the growth of scientism and positivism in nineteenth-century America.

Sabetai Unguru, whose field is ancient and medieval mathematics, has recently resigned from the history faculty of the University of Oklahoma. He has received a grant from the NSF to work on a critical edition and trans- lation of Books II and III of Witelo's Perspect- iva, and he is spending 1982-1983 in Israel.

Albert Van Helden teaches the history of science, technology, and medicine at Rice Uni- versity, Houston, Texas. He is finishing a book on the sizes and distances of heavenly bodies, covering 300 B.c. to A.D. 1700.

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Morris J. Vogel is Associate Professor of His- tory at Temple University, Philadelphia. His publications include The Invention of the Mod- ern Hospital: Boston 1870-1930. He is working on the history of illegitimacy.

Alexander Vucinich, Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Penn- sylvania, is author of The Soviet Academy of Sciences and Social Thought in Tsarist Russia. His book Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1917-1970 will appear in fall 1983.

James C. Whorton is Associate Professor of Biomedical History at the University of Wash-, ington. He is the author of Crusaders for Fit- ness: A History of American Health Reformers (1982) and is investigating the history of sports medicine.

Curtis A. Wilson, a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, spent fall 1982 at the In- stitute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he worked on the development of celestial mechanics in the second half of the eighteenth century.

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