Mott Greene
Mott T. Greene (* 1945 ) is an American historian of science .
Life
Greene studied at Columbia College and the University of Washington , where he received his PhD in 1978. He has taught at the University of Oregon and is a professor at the University of Puget Sound ( Magee Professor of Science and Values ).
He dealt with the history of science in antiquity and the geology of the 19th century, also wrote on the genre of the science biography. For 20 years he worked on a biography of Alfred Wegener , which finally appeared in 2015.
His book on natural knowledge in pre-Socratic antiquity is a collection of essays and deals with various aspects of the ancient history of science, including Egyptian mathematics, traces of historical volcanic eruptions in Greek myths, Thales as a hydraulic engineer, the identity of the Soma plant from Indian and Iranian religious rituals (which he associated with hallucinogenic drugs) and the concept of history in general.
In 1983 he became a MacArthur Fellow . For 2017 he was awarded the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal .
Fonts
- Geology in the Nineteenth Century. Changing Views of a. Changing World , Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983
- Natural knowledge in preclassical antiquity , Johns Hopkins University Press 1992
- Alfred Wegener. Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2015, ISBN 978-1-4214-1712-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography given on the occasion of a lecture at Oregon State University
- ↑ Writing scientific biography , Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 40, 2007, p. 727
- ↑ Review by James J. O'Donnel
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| SURNAME | Greene, Mott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greene, Mott T. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |