Owen Hannaway

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Owen Hannaway (born October 8, 1939 in Glasgow , † January 21, 2006 in Baltimore ) was a British chemical historian.

Hannaway studied chemistry from 1957 at the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in 1965. As a post-doctoral student , he was in the history of science department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with Aaron Ihde . In 1967 he became an assistant professor of the history of science at Johns Hopkins University , an associate professor in 1974 and a professor in 1977. From 1978 to 1982 and 1986 to 1989 he headed the Faculty of Science and Technology History. From 1982 to 1989 he was co-director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. In 2000 he was retired.

He dealt with the history of science in the early modern period and is known for his history of early chemistry textbooks (whose modern origins he saw in Alchemia (1597) by Andreas Libavius ).

From 1989 to 1999 he served on the editorial board of the British Journal for the History of Science and from 1989 to 1992 of Isis. He edited the History of Science series at Cambridge University Press with George Basalla .

In 1991 he received the Dexter Award and in 1988 the Derek Price / Rod Webster Price of the History of Science Society.

Fonts

  • The Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University Press 1975
  • Editor with Peter Achinstein : Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science, Studies from the Johns Hopkins Center for the History & Philosophy of Science, 1985
  • with George Basalla: The Evolution of Technology, 1989
  • with WF Bynum, George Basalla: Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth, 1994
  • with Edward Grant , George Basalla: The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts, 1996
  • Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius ​​versus Tycho Brahe, Isis, Volume 77, 1986, pp. 584-610

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SURNAME Hannaway, Owen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2006
Place of death Baltimore