Mary Jo Nye

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Mary Jo Nye

Mary Jo Nye (born December 5, 1944 in Nashville ) is an American science historian . In 2006 she received the prestigious George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society . Already in 1999 she had the Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society received.

career

After studying chemistry at the University of Wisconsin (bachelor's degree in 1965), Nye received his doctorate in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin in the history of science. From 1970 she taught as a professor at the University of Oklahoma . From 1991 she held the George Lynn Cross Research Professorship there. In 1994 she moved to Oregon State University , where she has headed the graduate program in the history of science since 1999 and has been Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History from 1994 .

She was visiting professor at the University of California , Cambridge University (Churchill College), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Harvard University . In 1981/82 she was at the Institute for Advanced Studies , 1974/75 at the University of Pittsburgh (Andrew Mellon Fellow) and 1989/90 at the Center for Historic Analysis at Rutgers University .

It deals primarily with the history of chemistry and physics since the 18th century in Europe and the USA with a focus on the social and cultural history of the sciences, in particular experimental science, university education and the political work of scientists. She also deals with the philosophy of science, especially the relationship between theory and experiment.

From 1994 she was Vice President of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. She has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1998 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993 , and a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. For 2017 she was awarded the Abraham Pais Prize .

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Molecular reality; A perspective on the scientific work of Jean Perrin. MacDonald [etc.], London [etc.] 1972.
  • Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860-1930. University of California Press, 1986, ISBN 0-520-05561-6 .
  • Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940. Harvard University Press, Reprint 1999, ISBN 0-674-06382-1 .
  • What about Linus Pauling a Revolutionary Chemist? (Thank you for the Dexter Award) In: Bull. Hist. Chem. 25 (2000), pp. 73-82.
  • Blackett. Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-674-01548-7 , about the English physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett .
  • From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800–1950. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley [et al. a.] 1993.
  • Michael Polanyi and his Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science. University of Chicago Press 2011.

As editor

  • The invention of physical science: intersections of mathematics, theology and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century; essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert. Kluwer, Dordrecht [and a.] 1992.
  • The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-57199-5 .
  • The Question of the Atom: From the Karlsruhe Congress to the First Solvay Conference. 1860-1911. A Selection of Primary Sources. Tomash / American Institute of Physics, Los Angeles / New York 1984.
  • with Joan Richards, Roger Stuewer The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert. In: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 139. Kluwer, Dordrecht 1992.
  • with Ramesh S. Krishnamurthy, Clifford Mead, Sean C. Goodlett, Marvin E. Kirk: The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography. Proceedings of the Conference on the Life and Work of Linus Pauling (1901-1994), Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections, Corvallis 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Nye, Mary Jo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville