Charles Coulston Gillispie
Charles Coulston Gillispie (born 1918) is an American historian of science, and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.
The son of Raymond Livingston Gillispie,[1] Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[2]. He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940.[3], and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949.
Gillispie joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He headed the editorial board of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, for which he received the Dartmouth Medal in 1981. He was also awarded the George Sarton Medal 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".
Works
- Genesis and geology: a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Britain, 1790-1850, 1951
- The edge of objectivity: an essay in the history of scientific ideas, 1960
- Lazare Carnot savant, 1971
- Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime, 1980. Winner of the Pfizer Award.
- Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. (2004)
- The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784, 1983
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: a life in exact science, 1997
- Essays and reviews in history and history of science, 2006
References
- ^ Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, 1921, p. 481
- ^ Remembering Dan Sachs
- ^ Wesleyan University Alumni Awards: Distinguished Alumni Awards