Peggy A. Kidwell
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is an American historian of science, the curator of medicine and science at the National Museum of American History.[1]
Education
Kidwell graduated from Grinnell College in 1971. She went to Yale University for graduate study, earning an M. Phil. in 1974 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979.[1] Her doctoral dissertation was Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600–1860).[2]
Books
Kidwell is the co-author of:
- Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History (with Paul E. Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)[3]
- Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 (with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)[4]
With Michael R. Williams, she is the translator and editor of:
- The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (by Ernst Martin, MIT Press, 1992).[5]
References
- ^ a b "Peggy A. Kidwell", Our People, National Museum of American History, retrieved 2020-02-14
- ^ Worldcat catalog entry for Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600-1860), retrieved 2020-02-14
- ^ Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
- Hammerton, James Cecil, "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
- Feldman, Larry (March 1995), The Mathematics Teacher, 88 (3): 243, JSTOR 27969287
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Small, James S. (July 1995), Technology and Culture, 36 (3): 717–719, doi:10.2307/3107276, JSTOR 3107276
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Swarzlander, Earl (Fall 1995), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 17 (3): 82, doi:10.1109/mahc.1995.397068
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mahoney, Michael S. (December 1995), Isis, 86 (4): 691–692, doi:10.1086/357396, JSTOR 235455
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Babaian, Sharon (Winter 1996), The Public Historian, 18 (1): 132–134, doi:10.2307/3377903, JSTOR 3377903
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- ^ Reviews of Tools of American Mathematics Teaching:
- Althoen, Steven C., zbMATH, Zbl 1156.00011
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Grier, David Alan (January 2009), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 31 (1): 73, doi:10.1109/mahc.2009.15
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (March–April 2009), "Things that teach", American Scientist, 97 (2): 170–171, JSTOR 27859312
- Wisnioski, Matt (April 2009), Technology and Culture, 50 (2): 500–502, JSTOR 40345646
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kilpatrick, Jeremy (May 2009), Science Education, 93 (3): 581–583, doi:10.1002/sce.20335
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Shell-Gellasch, Amy (August 2009), Historia Mathematica, 36 (3): 283–285, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.004
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Strassfeld, Brenda (November 2009), "Review", The Mathematics Teacher, 103 (4): 311, JSTOR 20876614
- Bennett, Andrew G. (2010), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (1): 53–55, MR 2590115
- Silver, Daniel S. (February 2010), American Mathematical Monthly, 117 (2): 190–192, doi:10.4169/000298910X476112, JSTOR 10.4169/000298910x476112, MR 2590199
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Crossfield, Don (February 2010), Convergence, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.4169/loci002860
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Van Brummelen, Glen (March 2010), Isis, 101 (1): 236–237, doi:10.1086/653893, JSTOR 10.1086/653893
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ehrhardt, Caroline (January–March 2011), Histoire de l'éducation (in French), 129: 88–91, JSTOR 41342833
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sinclair, Nathalie; Chorney, Sean (April 2012), Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 14 (2): 173–178, doi:10.1080/10986065.2012.660034
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- Althoen, Steven C., zbMATH, Zbl 1156.00011
- ^ Reviews of The Calculating Machines:
- Golan, Jonathan Samuel, "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
- Booth, A. D. (1993), Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH, MR 1174086, Zbl 1066.01501
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Tweedale, Geoffrey (March 1993), The British Journal for the History of Science, 26 (1): 126–127, doi:10.1017/S0007087400030648, JSTOR 4027388
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 13 (3): 182, June 1993, doi:10.1177/027046769301300399
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Swade, Doron (March 1994), Isis, 85 (1): 136–137, doi:10.1086/356742, JSTOR 235911
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