Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (born October 19, 1930 in Camden , Arkansas , † March 29, 1994 at the Grand Canyon ) was an American historian of science . She was a professor at the University of California, Davis . Dobbs is known to have uncovered a hitherto largely unknown side of Isaac Newton , his intense preoccupation with alchemy .
Dobbs studied chemistry at Hendrix College in Arkansas, psychology at the University of Arkansas, and history at the University of North Carolina . After being a housewife for twenty years, she returned to academia, teaching at a number of universities including Northwestern University and, from 1991, as Professor of History at the University of California, Davis .
She was a visiting scholar (Residential Fellow) at the Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library . In 1993 she was Distinguished Lecturer of the History of Science Society . She died of a heart attack while visiting the Grand Canyon .
In 1997 she was posthumously awarded the George Sarton Medal . She also received the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize (for Newton and Newtonism).
Fonts
- The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy, or The Hunting of the Green Lyon , Cambridge University Press 1975
- Alchemical Death and Resurrection: the significance of alchemy in the age of Newton , Smithsonian Institution Libraries 1990 (Lecture by Dobbs at the Smithsonian Libraries)
- The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought , Cambridge University Press 1991
- with Margaret C. Jacob: Newton and the culture of Newtonianism , Humanities Press 1995
- Alchemical cosmogony and Arian theology with Isaac Newton , in: Meinel, Christoph (Hg.): Alchemy in the European history of culture and science . [Lectures held on the occasion of the 16th Wolfenbüttel Symposium from April 2nd to 5th, 1984 in the Herzog August Library]. Wiesbaden 1986. pp. 137-150.
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SURNAME | Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Camden, Arkansas |
DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1994 |
Place of death | Grand Canyon |