Article ID: CBB975535395

John L. Heilbron (1934–2023): In Memoriam (2024)

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Whether we know it or not, we live with the legacies of those who preceded us. One of John Heilbron’s legacies was HSNS. For more than a quarter century, this journal was “John’s journal.” The journal mirrored its editor, and his judgment fundamentally formed it. Even through change, those who knew John can still see his trace here; we live within its shimmering outlines and respond to its call.Born on March 17, 1934, a native of San Francisco, John was drawn into the post–World War II rush to the sciences and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1950s and 1960s. Asking himself, however, what he most fundamentally wanted to do, he switched his attention from physics to history after earning a master’s degree. At Berkeley he trained with Thomas Kuhn and other faculty in the Department of History. When he came to the history of science in these postwar decades, the discipline was centrally engaged in setting its own standards and terms. In this generational project, John was part of a tight-knit cohort of younger scholars in the history of the physical sciences who traveled the same path and made this nascent profession their own.

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Authors & Contributors
Maienschein, Jane A.
Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty
Rasmussen, Nicolas
Adams, Mark B.
Anker, Peder Johan
Barrow, Mark V., Jr.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Independently published
Concepts
Memorials; commemorations
Eulogies
History of science, as a discipline
Historians of science, modern
Editors and editing
Philosophy of science
People
Mendelsohn, Everett I.
Allen, Garland E.
Churchill, Frederick B.
Forman, Paul
Frängsmyr, Tore
Heilbron, John L.
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Institutions
Harvard University
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