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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.

Hans Wussing

Hans-Ludwig Wußing (born October 15, 1927 in Waldheim; died April 26, 2011 in Leipzig) was a German historian of mathematics and science.

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.

Siegfried Gottwald

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


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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.

Friedrich Stadler

Friedrich Stadler (born July 17, 1951 in Zeltweg, Styria) is an Austrian historian of science and philosopher of science, and professor for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna.

Heinrich Suter

Heinrich Suter (4 January 1848, Hedingen near Zurich, Switzerland – 17 March 1922) was a historian of science specializing in Islamic mathematics and astronomy.

Isaac Balsam

Balsam's great-great-great-grandsons Yehonatan and Malachi Yammer and his great-granddaughter Shira Yammer, born in Israel in 2009, 2010, and 2012, respectively, are great-grandchildren of the physicist and historian of science Max Jammer (1915-2010).

Josten

Kurt Josten (1912–1994), German-born historian of science and museum curator, largely based in England

Myles Jackson

The chair is named after Bern Dibner (1897 – 1988), an electrical engineer, industrialist, historian of science and technology and alumnus of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

Protoceratops

Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.

Salvino D'Armate

Furthermore, Vasco Ronchi (1897-1988), the Italian physicist who specialized in optics, also published an article on the subject as did the American historian of science Edward Rosen (1906-1985) and the Italian professor of ophthamology Giuseppe Albertotti (1851-1936).

Steve Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science