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Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize winner and member of the Physics Department, 1923-1945


Charles Otis Whitman, Department of Biology and Founder of the University's Woods Hole Research Institute



S. Chandrasekhar, Physics and Astronomy departments, 1937-1995; winner of the Nobel Prize in 1983 for work on black holes

 


Biologist H.C. Cowles with students in Utah, 1924

 

Courses Generally Offered

Fishbein Center Faculty

 

Jean Comaroff
Anthropology of Medicine

Arnold Davidson
Michael Foucault's History of Sexuality
History, Epistemology, and Morality of Sex
Michel Foucault: Power and Sexuality

Jan Goldstein
Memory: History of a Mental Faculty and of a Historiography
Sci/Pol/Popltn Europe: 1700-2000 (with M. Geyer)

John Haugeland
Philosophy of Science
Heidegger's Being and Time

Janellen Huttenlocher
Cognitive Development
Seminar: Topics in Cognitive Development

Adrian Johns
The Book in Early Modern Europe
Natural Philosophy 1200-1800

Robert Perlman
Darwinian Medicine

Robert J. Richards
Foundations of Modern Psychology: Wundt and James
Philosophy of History: Narrative and Explanation
Darwin's Origin of Species and Descent of Man
Goethe: Literature and Science
Seminar: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology
German Romanticism I and II

Noel M. Swerdlow
History of Cosmology
Astronomy in the Scientific Revolution
Astronomy in Antiquity
Galileo's Astronomy and Conflicts with the Church
Astronomy of Kepler

George Stocking
Contextualization of Anthropological Knowledge
Ethnographic Practice in Historical Perspective
Seminar: History of Anthropology

Stephen Stigler
History of Statistics

Leigh Van Valen
Evolutionary Processes

William Wimsatt
Scientific and Technological Change
Philosophy of Biology I, II
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Biological and Cultural Evolution
Seminar: Evolution and Epistemology
Scientific and Technological Change

Alison Winter
History of Medicine since the Renaissance
Sciences of Mind: French Revolution to the Great War
Gender: History of Science, Technology and Medicine

 

 

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