This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine. These interrelationships form a unique perspective that allows the reader to see how technology and medicine influenced - and in turn were influenced by - the progress of scientific thought in the United States. An introductory essay focuses on the historiography of American science since World War II. In addition, each entry, where appropriate, places the topic of the article within the framework of current debate among historians. Bibliographies at the end of entries cover not only the most recent and authoritative sources on the subject, but also introduce the reader to specialized literature. The book contains numerous entries on the major U.S. scientific organizations,institutions, and schools of thought and on the roles they played in the development of science. As such, it is a major source of information on the institutional and disciplinary foundations of American science from colonial times to the present. These entries form a valuable collection of sketches of the leading people who created and furthered science in the United States. They provide the human element behind the theoretical and institutional information covered in the volume. All 500 entries in The History of Science in the United States were written by experts in the field, ranging from senior scholars with world reputations to young scholars presenting the fruits of their search. As a result, this single volume is a unique forum that presents the results, interpretations, and debates among three generations of historians of American science-much of it heretofore available only in specialized literature-to a broad audience of readers.
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No other encyclopedia works with this focus are available, recommending this for academic libraries and large reference collections in public libraries.
–Library Journal, November 15, 2000
–Library Journal, November 15, 2000
About the Author
Marc Rothenberg received his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College's Program in the History and Philosophy of Science in 1974. He has been on the staff of the Joseph henry papers Project (Smithsonian Institution Press) since 1975 and was named Editor in 1985. He is the general editor of the Garland series of encyclopedias in the history of science. Rothenberg is the author of numerous books including the two-volume History of Science and Technology in the United States: A Critical and Selective Bibliography (Garland, 1993). He has also authored and co-authored numerous articles in scholarly journals.
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Good study of pre-WW2 US,
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As a reference on its subject, it is perhaps best suited for the pre-WW2 period. The coverage of major scientists in that era is quite good. Many obscure entries that are now really only remembered by historians like Rothenberg.
Why the demarcation between pre-WW2 and later? Because American science changed radically after the US entered the US. With the seminal and successful Manhattan Project and the MIT Radar group, what emerged after the war was a much larger government involvement in science. Plus, other books on the postwar science give plenty of treatment on this. So much so that the prewar era of American science is relatively poorly treated and remembered. Something this book tries to remedy.
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Astronomer and meteorologist. Born in New York City, Abbe was educated at The New York Free Academy (now The City College of New York), graduating in 1857, and the University of Michigan, where he studied astronomy with F.F.E. Brunnow from 1859 to 1860. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Astronomer and meteorologist. Born in New York City, Abbe was educated at The New York Free Academy (now The City College of New York), graduating in 1857, and the University of Michigan, where he studied astronomy with F.F.E. Brunnow from 1859 to 1860. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, American Philosophical Society, North America, University of Chicago Press, University of Pennsylvania, Coast Survey, New England, New Haven, Cambridge University Press, Nobel Prize, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Biographical Memoirs, Government Printing Office, Yale University Press, Atomic Energy Commission, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, Royal Society, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology New!
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- Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities by A. Hunter Dupree on 15 pages
- American Science in the Age of Jefferson by John C. Greene on 12 pages
- University of Pennsylvania: The Campus Guide by George E. Thomas on 9 pages
- Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 by Professor Margaret W. Rossiter on 8 pages
- The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford by Stuart W. Leslie on 6 pages
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