Margaret W. Rossiter
Encyclopedia
Margaret W. Rossiter is an American historian
of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
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Awards
- 1989 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacArthur Fellows ProgramThe MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
- 1997 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science PrizeMargaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science PrizeMargaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize is awarded for an outstanding book or article on the history of women in science, by the History of Science Society....
Works
- "Philanthropy, Structure and Personality", Science at Harvard University: historical perspectives, Editors Clark A. Elliott, Margaret W. Rossiter, Lehigh University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780934223126
- "Writing Women into Science", Writing and revising the disciplines, Editor Jonathan Monroe, Cornell University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780801487514
- Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972, JHU Press, 1998, ISBN 9780801857119
- The emergence of agricultural science: Justus Liebig and the Americans, 1840-1880, Yale University Press, 1975, ISBN 9780300017212