Seven Decades of History of Science: I. Bernard Cohen (1914--2003), Second Editor of Isis (2009)
Dauben, Joseph Warren (Author)
Gleason, Mary Louise (Author)
Smith, George E. (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 100
Pages: 4--35
I. Bernard Cohen (1914--2003), the first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science, was a Harvard undergraduate ('37) and then a Ph.D. student and protégé of George Sarton, founder of Isis and the History of Science Society. He went on to succeed Sarton as editor of Isis (1952--1958) and, later, president of the Society (1961--1962); he was also a president of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. Cohen was an internationally recognized Newton scholar; his interests were encyclopedic, ranging from science and public policy to the history of computers, with several decades as a special consultant for history of computing with IBM. Among his hundreds of publications were such major books as Franklin and Newton (1956), The Birth of a New Physics (1959; rpt., 1985), The Newtonian Revolution (1980), Revolution in Science (1985), Science and the Founding Fathers (1995), Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (1999), and his last book, The Triumph of Numbers (2005), not to mention two jointly authored contributions, the variorum edition and new English translation of Newton's Principia, which will surely still be read a century from now.
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