Marie Boas Hall

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Marie Boas Hall (born October 18, 1919 as Marie Boas , † February 23, 2009 ) was a British historian of science .

Life

Marie Boas grew up in New England as the daughter of two English professors and studied chemistry at Radcliffe College from 1936 to 1940 . From 1944 she was at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where she wrote with Henry Guerlac on the history of the laboratory's radar research during the war. In 1949 she received her PhD in history of science from Cornell University under Guerlac (with a thesis on Robert Boyle , which was published in Osiris in 1952). After that she was at Brandeis University, among others . In 1951 she went to Cambridge to study Robert Boyle's papers and met Rupert Hall there , whom she married after returning to the USA in 1959. From 1957 both were at the University of California, Los Angeles , from 1961 at Indiana University and from 1963 at Imperial College in London, where they remained until their retirement in 1980. She died 18 days after the death of her husband Rupert Hall. She lived with her husband in Tackley, near Oxford.

Marie Boas Hall dealt mainly with the "Scientific Revolution" in the early modern period and in the Baroque, especially with the history of the Royal Society and Robert Boyle. She reissued Boyle's writings and wrote his biography in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970).

With her husband Rupert Hall she edited unpublished works by Isaac Newton in 1962 and the correspondence of Henry Oldenbourg , the first secretary of the Royal Society in London, whose biography she also wrote. With her husband Rupert Hall she re-edited a facsimile edition of the history of the Royal Society from the 18th century (1756/7) by Thomas Birch.

In 1955 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1981 she and her husband received the George Sarton Medal . In 1994 she became a Fellow of the British Academy .

Fonts

  • Henry Oldenbourg - shaping the Royal Society . Oxford University Press 2002
  • The Renaissance of the Natural Sciences 1450-1630. The age of Copernicus . Gütersloh 1965, Greno, Nördlingen 1988 (English: The scientific Renaissance . Collins, London 1962)
  • All scientists now. The Royal Society in the 19th Century . Cambridge University Press, 1984
  • Promoting experimental learning: Experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727 . Cambridge University Pressm 1991
  • Robert Boyle and 17th Century chemistry . Cambridge 1958, New York 1968

literature

  • Frank AJL James: Alfred Rupert Hall, 1920-2009; Marie Boas Hall, 1919-2009 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape 11 , 2012, p. 353–408 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF; accessed June 5, 2020]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 13 volumes 1965 to 1986. Up to Volume 8 with the University of Wisconsin Press, Volume 9 with Mansell, Volume 10 and 11 with Taylor and Francis
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Marie Boas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boas, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1919
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2009