Timothy Lenoir
Timothy Lenoir (* 1948 ) is an American historian of science and professor at Stanford University .
Life
Lenoir studied the history and philosophy of science at Indiana University , where he received his doctorate in 1974 (Dissertation: The Social and Intellectual Roots of Discovery in Seventeenth Century Mathematics ). He has taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Hebrew University, where he was director of the Gemstone Center.
Lenoir published on the development of non-Darwinian evolution theories (with a teleological background) in particular in 19th century Germany, science policy in the German Empire in the 19th century and the history of scientific institutions and their role in the professionalization of scientific disciplines.
His current research interests include the history of bioinformatics, computer graphics, medical visualization, and applications of virtual reality in surgery and the military and video games. He is involved in setting up web projects to enable contemporary researchers to collaborate with science historians.
From 1998 to 2001 he was awarded a Bing Fellow for his teaching at Stanford. He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Fonts
- The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology, Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982, Paperback University of Chicago Press 1989
- Politics in the Temple of Science: Research and Exercise of Power in the German Empire, Frankfurt / Main: Campus Verlag, 1992
- Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997
- Editor: Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, Stanford Press 1998
- All But War Is Simulation: The Military Entertainment Complex, in: Configurations, Volume 8, 2000, pp. 238-335.
- Programming Theaters of War: Gamemakers as Soldiers, in: Robert Latham (Hrs.g) Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between IT and Security, New York: New Press, 2003
- with Henry Lowood: Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex, in: Jan Lazardzig, Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte (eds.), Kunstkammer, Laboratorium, Bühne - Schäuplatze des Wissens im 17. Jahrhundert / Collection, Laboratory, Theater, Berlin; Walter de Gruyter Publishers, 2003
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| SURNAME | Lenoir, Timothy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |