| 1 | Name: | Dr. Gerald Holton | |
| Institution: | Harvard University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1996 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1922 | ||
Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists. Among his recent books are Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought (2nd ed., 1988); Science and Anti-Science (1993); Einstein, History, and Other Passions (2000); The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens (1998); The Scientific Imagination (1998); four books with Gerhard Sonnert: Gender Differences in Science Careers: Project Access Study (1995), Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension (1995), Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society (2002), and What Happened to the Children? (2006); Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (with S.G. Brush, 2001); and Understanding Physics (with D. Cassidy and F. J. Rutherford, 2002). Professor Holton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of several Learned Societies in Europe. Founding editor of the quarterly journal Daedalus, and founder of Science, Society, & Human Values, he was also on the editorial committee of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press). Among the honors he has received are the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics, election to the Presidency of the History of Science Society, and the selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Jefferson Lecturer. He was awarded the American Physical Society's 2008 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics. | |||