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John Pickstone

He has held fellowships in History of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (1971–73) and at University College London (1974), before moving in 1974 to the Department of History of Science and Technology, UMIST, Manchester, to work on the history of hospitals in the Manchester region (Lecturer, 1977, later Senior Lecturer).

Peter Galison

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


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Colin Russell

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

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis

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

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.

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.