Biography:George Basalla
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George Basalla (born 1928 in Altoona, Pennsylvania)[1] is an American historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware.[2]
Education and career
Basalla completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Harvard University in 1963. His dissertation, Science and Government in England 1800–1870, was supervised by I. Bernard Cohen.[3] He became an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964,[4] and was appointed as an associate professor at the University of Delaware in 1971.[5] He retired to become a professor emeritus in 1999.[6]
Books
Basalla's books include:
- Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials (Oxford University Press, 2006)[7]
- The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1989)[8]
- Victorian Science: a self-portrait from the presidential addresses of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (edited with William Coleman and Robert H. Kargon, Doubleday, 1970)[9]
- The Rise of Modern Science: Internal or External Factors? (edited, D. C. Heath, 1968)[10]
- The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton: An Exhibit of Books & Manuscripts from the History of Science Collection (edited, special issue of The Texas Quarterly, 1967)[11]
See also
References
- ↑ "Search the 1940 Census". 15 August 2016. https://1940census.archives.gov/search/?search.result_type=image&search.state=PA&search.enumeration_district=7-23.
- ↑ "Emeriti Faculty - Department of History" (in en-US). Department of History. http://www.history.udel.edu/people/emeritifaculty.
- ↑ "Ph. D. Theses in the History of Science By Year: 1941 through 2015". Harvard Department of the History of Science. http://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/files/hos/files/phd_theses_in_history_of_science_by_year_1941_through_2015_created_12_17_15.pdf?m=1450371831. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- ↑ "News". Isis 55 (2): 209–212. June 1964. doi:10.1086/349830.
- ↑ "Historical news and notices". The Journal of Southern History 37 (1): 147–155. February 1971.
- ↑ "Historical news and notices". The Journal of Southern History 65 (1): 207–217. February 1999.
- ↑ Reviews of Civilized Life in the Universe:
- Brown, Helen (April 30, 2006). "ET has been phoning home for centuries". The Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4199915/ET-has-been-phoning-home-for-centuries.html.
- Dick, Steven J. (January 2007). "none". Physics Today 60 (1): 57–58. doi:10.1063/1.2709561. Bibcode: 2007PhT....60a..57B.
- Foust, Jeff (June 12, 2006). "Review". The Space Review. https://www.thespacereview.com/article/637/1.
- Hengeveld, Rob (March 2007). "none". Acta Biotheoretica 54 (4): 301–304. doi:10.1007/s10441-007-9003-z.
- Shermer, Michael (March 3, 2006). "Deities for atheists". Science. New Series 311 (5765): 1244. doi:10.1126/science.1126115.
- Texley, Juliana (March–April 2007). "none". Journal of College Science Teaching 36 (5): 63.
- ↑ Reviews of The Evolution of Technology:
- "none". Social Studies of Science 20 (3): 571. August 1990.
- Barco, Juan Manuel Matés (December 1991). "Review of 1991 Spanish edition". Revista de Historia Económica 9 (3): 596–601. doi:10.1017/s0212610900003141.
- Braun, Ernst (June 1990). "none". Prometheus 8 (1): 171–172. doi:10.1080/08109029008631882.
- Braun, Hans-Joachim (1991). "none". VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 78 (2): 292–293.
- Bruyn, G. W. (June 1991). "none". Journal of the Neurological Sciences 103 (2): 240. doi:10.1016/0022-510x(91)90176-8.
- Dunlavy, Colleen A. (September 1, 1989). "none". Science. New Series 245 (4921): 991. doi:10.1126/science.245.4921.991. PMID 17780540.
- Fleck, James (Spring 1992). "Selectionism dominant: An essay review". Science, Technology, & Human Values 17 (2): 237–248. doi:10.1177/016224399201700207.
- Hansen, James R. (September 1990). "none". Isis 81 (3): 556–557. doi:10.1086/355480.
- Hollister-Short, Graham (June 1990). "none". The British Journal for the History of Science 23 (2): 239–241. doi:10.1017/S0007087400044939.
- Ilerbaig, Juan F. (December 1992). "Review of 1991 Spanish edition". Arbor 143 (564): 117–120. ProQuest 1301394344. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1301394344.
- Joravsky, David (December 7, 1989). "Machine dreams". The New York Review of Books. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/12/07/machine-dreams/.
- Langrish, John (January 1990). "none". Design Studies 11 (1): 56–IBC. doi:10.1016/0142-694x(90)90018-8.
- Mayr, Otto (January 1991). "none". Technology and Culture 32 (1): 130–131. doi:10.2307/3106017.
- Regis, Ed (April 9, 1989). "Exposing the myth of 'eureka'". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/09/books/the-worlds-of-science-exposing-the-myth-of-eureka.html.
- Schick, Kathy D. (March 1990). "none". The Quarterly Review of Biology 65 (1): 63–64. doi:10.1086/416595.
- Schnaars, Steven P. (January 1989). "none". International Journal of Forecasting 5 (4): 611–612. doi:10.1016/0169-2070(89)90019-8.
- ↑ Reviews of Victorian Science:
- Farrall, Lyndsay (December 1972). "none". Isis 63 (4): 584–585. doi:10.1086/351024.
- Morrell, J. B. (June 1972). "none". The British Journal for the History of Science 6 (1): 99–100. doi:10.1017/S0007087400012152.
- Oppenheimer, Jane (September 1971). "none". The Quarterly Review of Biology 46 (3): 278.
- ↑ Review of The Rise of Modern Science:
- Thackray, Arnold (Fall 1970). "none". Isis 61 (3): 398–399. doi:10.1086/350659.
- ↑ Review of The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton:
- Parkinson, George Henry Radcliffe (1970). "none". Studia Leibnitiana 2 (2): 146–147.
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