Tag: History of Science
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Work & Economy
High point for market fundamentalism? Would you guess Clinton?
Naomi Oreskes traces the decadeslong campaign to get Americans to put their faith in free market as a force for positive change over government.
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Science & Tech
Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.
In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
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Nation & World
Taken out of context
In a peer-reviewed piece published in the journal Science, scholars from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab created a roadmap to help researchers take greater care when writing biological definitions and classifications of sex, mindful of how their language may be used in the public arena.
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Campus & Community
Maggie Chen ’22, a budding scientist, named Marshall Scholar
Maggie Chen, a dual concentrator in human developmental and regenerative biology and history of science, will study bioengineering at Imperial College London.
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Health
Your best, worst traits: Was it something mom did while pregnant?
Sarah Richardson traces history of debate over lasting effects of maternal behaviors, experiences on gestating offspring.
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Science & Tech
Study aims to quell fears over falling human sperm count
Rising fears over declining human sperm count among men in Western countries may be overblown, according to researchers at Harvard’s GenderSci Lab.
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Health
More than biology influences COVID risk
The GenderSci Lab at Harvard finds that more men than women are dying of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.
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Campus & Community
An insider’s guide to the life academic
In a new course offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, newbies learn the ropes of grad school and how to navigate the world of academia.
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Science & Tech
Defending science in a post-fact era
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, author of “Why Trust Science?,” discusses the five pillars necessary for science to be considered trustworthy, the evidentiary value of self-reporting, and her Red State Pledge.
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Health
‘An era where it has never not been about drugs’
The Gazette spoke with History of Science Professor Anne Harrington about her new book, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” which traces the treatment of mental disorders from its early years to the Prozac Nation of today.
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Campus & Community
I. Bernard Cohen, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohen led the professionalization of the history of science and established the flagship department at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A lifetime of scholarship, recognized
Steven Shapin, the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor in the History of Science, whose scholarship has had a wide-reaching impact on both the history and sociology of science, has been awarded the 2014 Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement by the History of Science Society.
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Science & Tech
Down to the details, a giant in computing history
University leaders gathered at the Science Center to celebrate an update of the Harvard Mark I exhibit.
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Campus & Community
Erwin Hiebert, 93, dies
Erwin Hiebert, professor of the history of science emeritus, died on Nov. 28, at the age of 93.
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Science & Tech
America’s first time zone
The Harvard College Observatory built its foundation in the mid-1800s, after an epidemic of train wrecks prompted the railroads to seek a regional standard for greater accuracy and safety.
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Campus & Community
Not black and white
During a trip to the Museum of Science, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and students from her freshman seminar revisited many of the issues they explored in her fall class.
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Arts & Culture
Objects of instruction
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and some of Harvard’s leading faculty convened at Harvard Hall on Friday (April 1) to participate in “Teaching with Collections,” a discussion of the University’s treasures and their use in the classroom.
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Science & Tech
America’s Eden that wasn’t
A new history of science course on the environment moves past the fictions of an unspoiled earlier time of discovery and settlement.
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Campus & Community
John E. Murdoch, professor of history of science, 83
John E. Murdoch, one of the world’s top scholars of ancient and medieval science, died Thursday (Sept. 16) at age 83. He had been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1963, and professor of the history of science since 1967.
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Arts & Culture
A Tenth of a Second: A History
When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.
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Science & Tech
Wasteland and wilderness
Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
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Arts & Culture
History on a small scale
On the second floor of Harvard’s Science Center is a temporary exhibit of 75 patent models from the 19th century, a time of prolific American invention that produced the revolver, zippers, trolley cars, and cash registers.
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Science & Tech
Moral dimensions of ‘the scientific life’
Scientific knowledge is reliable and it is authoritative. It is also often understood to be impersonal: The personal characteristics of a researcher are not thought to influence his or her findings. In recent work, historian Steven Shapin assumes the reliability and authority of scientific knowledge but illustrates how scientists’ personal characteristics and traits figure prominently…
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Campus & Community
Two University Professors appointed
Two members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been appointed to University Professorships. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, currently the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, known for her work on daily life in late 18th and early 19th century America, has been appointed the 300th Anniversary University Professor. Peter Galison, the…