Thomas L. Hankins
Thomas Leroy Hankins (born September 9, 1933 in Lawrence , Kansas ) is an American historian of science. He was a professor at the University of Washington .
Hankins studied physics at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1956, from Harvard University with a MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) in 1958 and received a doctorate in history from Cornell University in 1964 . From 1964 he was Assistant Professor, from 1969 Associate Professor and from 1975 Professor at the University of Washington. From 1971 to 1973 he was Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of History there. In 2000 he retired.
Hankins dealt in particular with theoretical physics in the 18th and 19th centuries, where he wrote biographies of William Rowan Hamilton and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , and the relationship between science and the Enlightenment.
From 1976 to 1980 he was co-editor of Isis and he was co-editor of Osiris . 1983 to 1985 he headed the US national committee of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.
In 1998 he received the George Sarton Medal .
Fonts
- Science and the Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press 1985
- Jean d'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970, Gordon and Breach 1990
- Sir Rowan William Hamilton, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, 2004
- Article Rowan William Hamilton in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- with Robert Silverman: Instruments and the Imagination, Princeton University Press 1995
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| SURNAME | Hankins, Thomas L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hankins, Thomas Leroy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lawrence (Kansas) |