Arnold Thackray
Arnold Wilfrid Thackray (born July 30, 1939 in England ) is an English chemical historian.
Thackray attended Manchester Grammar School and studied chemistry at the University of Bristol with a bachelor's degree in 1960. He then worked for a while in industry before turning to the history of science in 1962, which he initially studied part-time at Leeds University and from 1963 at Cambridge University, where he received his doctorate in 1966 with Mary Hesse and became a Fellow of Churchill College. In 1967 he went to the USA. He was Joseph Priestley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania , where he founded the Department of History and Sociology of Science. In 1982 he founded the Center for the History of Chemistry, which in 1992 became the Chemical Heritage Foundation , of which he was long-time President and of which he is Chancellor.
In 1983 he received the Dexter Award . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Historical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1991). He was visiting scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at the Institute for Advanced Study (1980), in Cambridge (All Souls College 1977/78), at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, at the London School of Economics (1971 / 72 as a Guggenheim Fellow), at Harvard and Oxford.
Thackray was editor of Isis from 1978 to 1985 and of Osiris from 1985 to 1994. From 1982 to 1983 he was President of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
He has been a US citizen since 1981.
Fonts
- Atoms and Powers; An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry, Harvard UP 1970
- John Dalton: Critical Assessments of His Life and Science, Harvard UP 1972
- with Everett Mendelsohn: Science and Values: Patterns of Tradition and Change, Humanities Press 1974
- with Jack Morrell: Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 volumes, Oxford UP, 1981, 1985
- with JL Sturchio, PT Carroll, RF Bud: Chemistry in America, 1876–1976: Historical Indicators, Reidel 1985
- Editor with Elkana, Yehuda, Joshua Lederberg, Robert K. Merton, Harriet Zuckerman: Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators, Wiley 1978
- Editor: Contemporary Classics in Engineering and Applied Sciences, ISI Press 1986
- Publisher: Contemporary Classics in Physical, Chemical, and Earth Sciences, ISI Press 1986
- Published in: Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences, The Chemical Sciences in Society Series, University of Pennsylvania Press 1998
- with Minor Myers, James D. Watson: Arnold O. Beckman: 100 Years of Excellence, Chemical Heritage Foundation Series in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Chemical Heritage Foundation 2000
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thackray, Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thackray, Arnold Wilfrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |