Maurice Crosland

Maurice P. Crosland (born March 19, 1931 in London ) is a British chemical historian.

Crosland studied chemistry at University College London with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and history with a master's degree in 1953. He was then a science teacher in London and also worked on his doctorate at UCL, which took place in 1959. After the success of his book on the history of chemical notation and technical language, which emerged from his dissertation, he became a lecturer in the history of science at the University of Leeds in 1963 , where he became a reader in 1969. In 1968 he was visiting scholar with Henry Guerlac at Cornell University and at Berkeley University . In 1974 he went to the University of Kent as head of a newly established research group on the history of science. He led the group with Alex Dolby and Crosbie Smith for 20 years.

He dealt mainly with French chemical history in the 18th and 19th centuries, including Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , Jean-Baptiste Dumas , Charles Adolphe Wurtz , Marie Curie , the history of the Academie des Sciences , the Société d'Arcueil , the Annales de Chimie and generally with academy awards and scientific schools. He also lectured on the social history of medicine.

In 1984 he received the Dexter Award . From 1965 to 1971 he was editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. 1974 to 1976 he was President of the British Society for the History of Science. He was a member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences . In 1971 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania .

Fonts

• Historical studies in the language of chemistry. Heinemann, London et al. 1962, (Dover Publications, New York NY 1978, ISBN 0-486-63702-6 ).
• The Society of Arcueil. A View of French Science at the Time of Napoleon I. Heinemann, London et al. 1967.
• as editor: Thomas Bugge : Science in France in the Revolutionary Era (= Monographs in the History of Technology and Culture. 7). Edited with introduction and commentary. With extracts from other contemporary works. Society for the History of Technology et al., Cambridge MA et al. 1969, ISBN 0-262-03029-2 .
• as editor: The Science of Matter. A Historical Survey. Selected readings. Penguin Books Harmondsworth et al. 1971, ISBN 0-14-080192-8 (Also: (= Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science. 9). Gordon and Breach, Yverdon et al. 1992, ISBN 2-88124-570-6 ).
• as editor: The Emergence of Science in Western Europe. Macmillan, London et al. 1975, ISBN 0-333-18217-0 ("Based on papers presented at the summer meeting of the British Society for the History of Science at Leeds in 1974.").
• Gay Lussac. Scientist and Bourgeois. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1978, ISBN 0-521-21979-5 (ibid 2004, ISBN 0-521-52483-0 (French translation: Gay-Lussac. 1778-1850. Savant et bourgeois. Belin, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7011-1216-8 ).
• Science Under Control. The French Academy of Sciences 1795-1914. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1992, ISBN 0-521-41373-7 (Paperback edition. Ibid 2002, ISBN 0-521-52475-X ).
• In the Shadow of Lavoisier. The Annales de Chimie and the Establishment of a New Science (= BSHS Monographs. 9). The Alden Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-906450-10-1 .
• Studies in the Culture of Science in France and Britain since the Enlightenment (= Collected Studies Series. 501). Variorum, Aldershot et al. 1995, ISBN 0-86078-498-3 .

Web links

• Biography at the ACS, pdf