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Al-Saghani

Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi (meaning the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv) was a Persian astronomer and historian of science.


Falsifiability

Whereas Popper was concerned in the main with the logic of science, Thomas Kuhn's influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions examined in detail the history of science.

Gerald L. Geison

Gerald L. Geison went on to earn a doctorate in Yale University's Department of the History of Science and Medicine in 1970 and then joined the Princeton faculty, where he was a professor in the history department and the Program in History of Science.

John Pickstone

John Pickstone is currently Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.

Joseph Dauben

His fields of expertise are history of science, history of mathematics, the scientific revolution, sociology of science, intellectual history, 17-18th centuries, history of Chinese science, and the history of botany.

Marshall Clagett

Marshall Clagett (January 23, 1916, Washington DC – October 21, 2005, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American historian of science who specialized in medieval science.

Peter Galison

Peter Louis Galison (born 1955, New York) is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.

Siegfried Gottwald

Siegfried Johannes Gottwald (born 30 March 1943 in Limbach, Saxony) is a German mathematician, logician and historian of science.

Stephen Snobelen

His current teaching and research interests are History of science (Early Modern and nineteenth century); Science and religion; Isaac Newton; The popularization of science; Radical theology in the Early Modern period; and Millenarianism.


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Alexander A. Gurshtein

As a historian of science, he has served as editor-in-chief of the Annual on History of Science, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the academic monthly, Nature.

Bernard Cohen

I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003), professor of the history of science at Harvard University

Burndy

In addition to his association with the company he founded, Bern Dibner is frequently identified with one of the world’s leading collections of source material in the history of science, now located at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

In 2006, the complete collection was donated to the Huntington Library and combined with the Huntington’s History of Science materials.

Charles Hapgood

After the war, Hapgood taught at Keystone College (1945–1947), Springfield College (1947–1952), Keene State College (1956–1966), and New England College (1966–1967), lecturing in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science.

Colin Russell

Colin A. Russell (born 1928), Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at the Open University

Daiwie Fu

His areas of research are gender and sexuality related to modern medicine in Taiwan and biji and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty.

David Knight

David M. Knight (born 1936), English professor of history of science and philosophy

David Philip Miller

He serves on editorial boards of the journals Isis, Annals of Science, History of Science and The British Journal for the History of Science.

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis

1963 - (with R. J. Forbes) History of Science and Technology (2 vols., Penguin Books)

Gennady Gorelik

A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.

Gothic science fiction

In his history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss contends that science fiction itself is an outgrowth of gothic fiction-- pointing to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein as an example.

Historiography of science

The influential bureaucrat Vannevar Bush, and the president of Harvard, James Conant, both encouraged the study of the history of science as a way of improving general knowledge about how science worked, and why it was essential to maintain a large scientific workforce.

John Krige

After earning a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom in 1979, Krige's academic career has been in the history of science, including notable efforts within the project to write the history of CERN and the European Space Agency in the 1980s and 1990s.

Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences

Courses are offered in philosophy, classical Latin and Greek, history of art, creative writing, comparative literature, Near Eastern studies, film and media studies, and history of science and technology, as well as in the more familiar areas of English and American literature, history, and modern foreign languages.

Katharine Park

and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Leslie Williams

L. Pearce Williams (born 1927), professor of the history of science at Cornell University

Making Social Science Matter

In terms of the philosophy and history of science, Flyvbjerg takes his cue from Aristotle rather than from Socrates and Plato.

Myles Jackson

He has been a Senior Fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.

Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji

Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non western cultures, p.

Patricia Fara

Her areas of particular academic interest include the role of portraiture and art in the history of science, science in the 18th century England during the Enlightenment and the role of women in science.

Ronald Numbers

Currently he is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Science and technology in Bangladesh

According to the recent excavations made at the archaeological site of Wari-Bateshwar, it can be said that the history of science and technology in Bangladesh starts in the Chalcolithic age, some evidences of pit-dwelling from that period were found in those excavations.

Stefan Andriopoulos

He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, in the Department of the History of Science, and at Cologne University, in the Research Institute "Media, Culture, Communication."