Maurice Daumas
Maurice Daumas (born December 19, 1910 in Béziers , † March 18, 1984 in Paris ) was a French historian of science. He was a pioneer in the history of technology and industrial archeology in France.
Daumas came from a family of teachers, went to school in Montpellier , where he studied chemistry with a degree in 1936. From 1935 to 1942 he worked as a chemist in the police laboratory in the prefecture of Paris. The rest of the occupation he worked at the Laboratoire de Recherches des Ets Doiteau in Corbeil and for the Alexis Carrell Foundation and the National Statistics Institute (INED). From 1947 to 1976 he was a curator at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris, where he was professor and director from 1969. In 1952 he received his doctorate in Paris with Gaston Bachelard . From 1960 he was the first director of the Center de Documentation d'Histoire des Techniques of the École pratique des hautes études and in 1966 he was also professor of the history of technology at the University of Nancy .
He dealt with the history of chemistry and technology, especially Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier , François Arago and the history of scientific instruments.
He was first general secretary and in 1968 co-founder of the International Committee for the History of Technology (1968) and organized its first congress in Pont-à-Mousson in 1970. Daumas also founded the Revue Archeologie Industrielle en France in 1976 .
In 1953 he received the Prix Pelloit and in 1957 the Prix Freycinet of the Academie des Sciences and in 1965 the Leonardo da Vinci Medal . In 1980 he received the Dexter Award .
Fonts
- Les matières plastiques, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. Que sais-je? , 1941
- Lavoisier, Théoricien et Expérimentaleur, Presses universitaires de France, 1941 (reprinted 1955)
- Arago, Gallimard, Verlag Belin 1943 (reprinted 1987)
- L'Acte Chimique, Essai sur l'Histoire de la Philosophie Chimique, éditions du Sablon, 1945
- Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers, 1972, 2003 (French original 1953)
- Published by: Histoire de la Science, Gallimard, Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, 1957
- Publisher: Histoire Générale des Techniques, 5 volumes, Presses universitaires de France, 1962 to 1979
- L'archéologie industrial en France, Robert Laffont, coll.Les hommes et l'histoire, 1980
- Les Grandes Étapes du Progrès Technique, 1981
- Le cheval de César, ou le mythe des révolutions techniques, Editions des archives contemporaines (EAC), 1985, 1991
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daumas, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beziers |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1984 |
| Place of death | Paris |