Charles Coulston Gillispie Explained
Charles Coulston Gillispie (; August 6, 1918 – October 6, 2015) was an American historian of science. He was the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.[1] He was succeeded by Arno J. Mayer.
Life
The son of Raymond Livingston Gillispie and Virginia Coulston,[2] Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[3] He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940 with a major in Chemistry[4] and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Gillispie joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Princeton Program in History of Science in the 1960s. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.[5] He was president of the History of Science Society in 1965–66.[6] In 1972, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[7] He headed the editorial board of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, for which he received the Dartmouth Medal in 1981. Gillispie also received the Pfizer Award in 1981. He was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society in 1984 and the Balzan Prize in 1997 for "the extraordinary contribution he has made to the history and philosophy of science by his intellectually vigorous, precise works, as well as his editing of a great reference work".
He died on October 6, 2015, at the age of 97.[8]
Works
- Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Britain, 1790–1850, 1951 ;
- Book: 1996 pbk reprint. 0-674-34481-2. Gillispie . Charles Coulston . 1996 . Harvard University Press .
- The edge of objectivity: an essay in the history of scientific ideas, 1960
- Lazare Carnot, savant, 1971[9] [10]
- Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime, 1980 Winner of the 1981 Pfizer Award.
- Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (2004)
- The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783–1784, 1983
- Book: 2014 pbk reprint. 9781400855209 . Gillispie . Charles Coulston . 14 July 2014 . Princeton University Press .
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Life in Exact Science, 1997 [12]
- Book: 2018 pbk reprint. 9780691187983 . Gillispie . Charles Coulston . 5 June 2018 . Princeton University Press .
- Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science, 2006
Further reading
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Notes and References
- Book: Clare D. Kinsman. Christine Nasso. Gale Research Company. Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works, Volumes 21-24. 1975. Gale Research Co.. 0810300273.
- Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, 1921, p. 481
- Web site: Remembering Dan Sachs. Purple Motes. December 9, 2007. June 24, 2016.
- Web site: Wesleyan University Alumni Awards: Distinguished Alumni Awards. Wesleyan University. June 24, 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130306015316/http://www.wesleyan.edu/alumni/awards/distinguished/. March 6, 2013.
- Web site: Charles Coulston Gillispie . 2022-08-18 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . en.
- Web site: The History of Science Society. The Society: Past Presidents of the History of Science Society. December 4, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131212134009/http://www.hssonline.org/about/society_presidents.html. December 12, 2013.
- Web site: APS Member History . 2022-08-18 . search.amphilsoc.org.
- Web site: Charles Coulston Gillispie dies. National Center for Science Education. October 8, 2015. June 24, 2016.
- 10.1063/1.3070931 . Review of Lazare Carnot, Savant by C. C. Gillispie . 1972 . Schofield, Robert E. . Physics Today . 25 . 7 . 55–57 . 1972PhT....25g..55G .
- 10.1126/science.173.4002.1118. Review of Lazare Carnot, Savant by Charles Coulson Gillispie . 1971 . Hankins . Thomas L. . Thomas L. Hankins . Science . 173 . 4002 . 1118–1119 .
- Web site: Ashbacher, Charles. April 16, 2014. Review of Lazare and Sadi Carnot by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Raffaele Pisano. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America .
- Web site: Langton, Stacy G.. April 8, 1999. Review of Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science by Charles Coulston Gillispie. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America .