| 1 | Name: | Dr. Margaret C. Jacob | |
| Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Year Elected: | 2002 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1943 | ||
Margaret Jacob received her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1968. She was an assistant professor of history and languages and literature at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and a lecturer in European history at the University of East Anglia, UK, before becoming professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York, in1971. She became dean of the Eugene Lang College and professor of history in the university in 1985 at the New School for Social Research. In 1996 she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as professor of history and of the history of science. She is currently Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A leading international authority on the interaction of science, commerce, and technology and how they contributed to the industrial revolution of the early 19th century. Dr. Jacob is the author of many books and innumerable articles. She works with English, French, Belgian, and Dutch sources. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, she is also a prominent academic leader. At UCLA, she has spearheaded a pathbreaking research project bringing scientists and humanists together to study chronic pain. Dr. Jacob's publications include The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (1976); The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981); The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (1988); Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991); (with Lynn Hunt and Joyce Appleby) Telling the Truth about History (1994); (with Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs) Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (1995); Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (1997); The Enlightenment: A Brief History (2001); and (with Larry Stewart) Practical Matter, The Impact of Newton's Science from 1687 to 1851 (2004). She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002 and in the same year awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht. | |||