Henry Guerlac
American historian
Henry Edward Guerlac (June 14, 1910 – May 29, 1985) was an American historian of science. He taught at Cornell University where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History.
Biography
Guerlac earned his PhD in European history from Harvard in 1941.[1]
During World War II, he worked in the MIT Radiation Laboratory with Marie Boas Hall in writing "the history of the laboratory and of the operational use of radar during the war."[2] Boas Hall later joined him as a PhD student at Cornell, completing her studies with him in 1952.[2]
He was awarded the Pfizer Award in 1959 by the History of Science Society for his book Lavoisier: The Crucial Year, and was given the Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1972.[3] He won the George Sarton Medal, the highest award given by the History of Science Society, in 1973. He served as president of the society from 1957 to 1960.[4] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978, and in 1982 was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by France.[1]
References
- ^ a b Henry Edward Guerlac (1910–1982) Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine (2006) Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
- ^ a b Marie Boas Hall (1919-2009) Archived 2013-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Times, 20 March 2009
- ^ "Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry". Division of the History of Chemistry. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ The History of Science Society "The Society: Past Presidents of the History of Science Society" Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 December 2013
External links
- Guide to the Henry Guerlac Papers, 1922-1981, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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Presidents of the History of Science Society
- Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1924–1925)
- James Henry Breasted (1926)
- David Eugene Smith (1927)
- Edgar Fahs Smith (1928)
- Lynn Thorndike (1929)
- Henry Crew (1930)
- William H. Welch (1931)
- Berthold Laufer (1932)
- J. Playfair McMurrich (1933)
- Harvey Williams Cushing (1934)
- Charles Albert Browne, Jr. (1935–1936)
- Chauncey D. Leake (1937–1938)
- Henry E. Sigerist (1939)
- Richard H. Shryock (1940–1942)
- Louis Charles Karpinski (1943–1944)
- Isaiah Bowman (1944)
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1945–1946)
- John Farquhar Fulton (1947–1950)
- Harcourt Brown (1951–1952)
- Dorothy Stimson (1953–1956)
- Henry Guerlac (1957–1960)
- I. Bernard Cohen (1961–1962)
- Marshall Clagett (1963–1964)
- Charles Coulston Gillispie (1965–1966)
- C. D. O'Malley (1967–1968)
- Thomas Kuhn (1969–1970)
- Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (1971–1972)
- Erwin N. Hiebert (1973–1974)
- John C. Greene (1975–1976)
- Richard S. Westfall (1977-1978)
- Robert P. Multhauf (1979–1980)
- Frederic L. Holmes (1981–1982)
- Gerald Holton (1983–1984)
- Edward Grant (1985–1986)
- William Coleman (1987)
- Mary Jo Nye (1988–1989)
- Stephen G. Brush (1990–1991)
- Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (1992–1993)
- David C. Lindberg (1994–1995)
- Frederick Gregory (1996–1997)
- Albert Van Helden (1998–1999)
- Ronald Numbers (2000–2001)
- John Servos (2002–2003)
- Michael Sokal (2004–2005)
- Joan Cadden (2006–2007)
- Jane Maienschein (2008–2009)
- Paul Lawrence Farber (2010–2011)
- Lynn K. Nyhart (2012–2013)
- Angela N. H. Creager (2014–2015)
- Janet Browne (2016–2017)
- Bernard Lightman
- Jan Golinski
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