Donald Harnish Fleming

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Donald Harnish Fleming (August 7, 1923, Hagerstown, Maryland[1]  – June 16, 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. He specialized in American and European intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.[2][3]

Biography

Fleming graduated from Johns Hopkins University with AB in 1943 and from Harvard University with AM in 1944 and PhD in 1947.[1] From 1947 to 1959 he was a faculty member of Brown University's history department.[2] After spending the academic year 1958–1959 as a professor at Yale University, he joined in 1959 the faculty of Harvard University's history department.[3] He remained a professor there until 1999, when he retired as professor emeritus.[1] He was from 1963 to 1965 the chair of the department and from 1973 to 1980 the director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was from 1967 to 1986 the co-editor, with Bernard Bailyn, of the journal Perspectives in American History, an annual volume of monographic essays.[3]

Fleming was a lifelong bachelor. His cremated remains were buried at Harvard Hill in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.[1]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Articles

  • Fleming, Donald (1952). "Latent Heat and the Invention of the Watt Engine". Isis. 43: 3–5. doi:10.1086/349358.
  • Fleming, Donald (1955). "Galen on the Motions of the Blood in the Heart and Lungs". Isis. 46 (143): 14–21. doi:10.1086/348379. PMID 14353581. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1959). "The Centenary of the Origin of Species". Journal of the History of Ideas. 20 (3): 437–446. doi:10.2307/2708122. JSTOR 2708122. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1961). "Charles Darwin, the Anaesthetic Man". Victorian Studies. 4 (3): 219–236. JSTOR 3825547. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1962). "The Ends in View of the Preservation of the Private Papers of American Scientists". Isis. 53: 118–121. doi:10.1086/349540. PMID 13893520. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1979). "Comment on Fox and His Commentators". The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society. 57 (3): 380–384. doi:10.2307/3349793. JSTOR 3349793. PMID 257201. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1984). "Walter B. Cannon and Homeostasis". Social Research. 51 (3): 609–640. JSTOR 40970955. PMID 11616403. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1990). "John Leonard Clive". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 102: 164–166. JSTOR 25081022. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Fleming, Donald (1993). "Frank Freidel". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 105: 169–171. JSTOR 25081073. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

Books

  • Fleming, Donald (1950). John William Draper and the Religion of Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.[6]
  • Fleming, Donald (1954). William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine. The Library of American Biography. Little, Brown and Co. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)[7]
  • Bailyn, Bernard; Fleming, Donald; Handlin, Oscar; Thernstrom, Stephan (1986). Glimpses of the Harvard past. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674354432.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Obituary. Donald Fleming". Boston Globe (legacy.com).
  2. ^ a b Lavoie, Amy (24 July 2008). "Intellectual historian Fleming dies at 84". The Harvard Gazette.
  3. ^ a b c Handlin, Oscar; May, Ernest R.; Turner, James; Bailyn, Bernard (2009-10-29). "Donald Harnish Fleming, Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute". The Harvard Gazette.
  4. ^ "Donald Harnish Fleming". Member Directory, American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  5. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Donald Harnish Fleming".
  6. ^ Lurie, Edward (1951). "Review of John William Draper and the Religion of Science by Donald Fleming". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 37 (4): 721. doi:10.2307/1889393. JSTOR 1889393.
  7. ^ Shryock, Richard H. (1955). "Review of William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine by Donald Fleming". The American Historical Review. doi:10.1086/ahr/60.4.914.
  8. ^ Veysey, Laurence (1987). "Review of Glimpses of the Harvard Past". History of Education Quarterly. 27 (2): 272–275. doi:10.2307/368477. ISSN 0018-2680.
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