Seymour H. Mauskopf

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Seymour H. Mauskopf (born November 11, 1938 in Cleveland ) is an American historian of chemistry and science.

Mauskopf studied chemistry and history at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and at Princeton University , where he received his master's degree in 1963 and his doctorate in history of science in 1966. In 1964 he became an instructor in the history of science at Duke University , 1966 Assistant Professor, 1972 Associate Professor and 1980 Professor.

He dealt with the history of chemistry in the 18th and 19th centuries, the history of chemical engineering (especially explosives), the history of parapsychology and unconventional approaches to science.

In 1998 he received the Dexter Award .

Fonts

  • Crystals and Compounds: Molecular Structure and Composition in Nineteenth Century French Science, 1976
  • with Michael R. McVaugh: The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research, 1980
  • Published in: The reception of unconventional science by the scientific community, 1979
  • Published in: Chemical sciences in the modern world, 1993
  • The Chemical Revolution, in: Reader's Guide to the History of Science, 2000
  • Richard Kirwan 's Phlogiston Theory: Its Success and Fate, Ambix, Volume 49, 2002, pp. 185-205
  • Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder, in: Scientific Instruments and Warfare, 2003
  • Gunpowder and the Chemical Revolution, Osiris, Vol. 4, 1988, pp. 93-118
  • Chemistry in the Arsenal: State Regulation and Scientific Methodology of Gunpowder in Eighteenth-Century England and France, in: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment, 2005
  • Pellets, Pebbles and Prisms: British Munitions for larger guns, 1860–1885, in: Brendas J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A technological history, Ashgate 2006
  • with Matthew Daniel Eddy, William R. Newman (Eds.): Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World, University of Chicago Press 2014

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SURNAME Mauskopf, Seymour H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of chemistry and science
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland