Ronald Numbers
Ronald L. Numbers (born June 3, 1942 ) is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison . He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Janet S. Numbers, and their daughter Lesley .
academic career
Ronald L. Numbers studied math and physics at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee . He holds an MA in history from the University of Florida and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, on a subject in the history of science. As a Josiah Macy Fellow, he spent a year at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University , and a year as a Fellow of the "Interdisciplinary Studies Program" at an institute of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka , Kansas . Since 1974 he has taught history of science and medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He is there "William Coleman Professor" of the History of Science and Medicine.
He served on the boards of the American Society for the History of Medicine, the Society for the History of Science, and the American Society for Church History. From 1989 to 1993 he was the editor of Isis , the organ of the American Society for the History of Science. He is currently working on the article "American History of Science" for the Lexicon of the "Cambridge History of Science Series".
Numbers has been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995 . In 2008 Numbers was awarded the George Sarton Medal , the most prestigious award for the history of science from the History of Science Society (HSS) founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson .
Fonts
- The Creationists. The Evolution of scientific Creationism , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 (extended new edition: The Creationists. From scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design , Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
- Darwinism Comes to America , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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| SURNAME | Numbers, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Numbers, Ronald L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1942 |