| 1 | Name: | Dr. Noel M. Swerdlow | |
| Institution: | University of Chicago; California Institute of Technology | ||
| Year Elected: | 1988 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1941 | ||
| Death Date: | July 24, 2021 | ||
A leading authority in the history of mathematical astronomy, Noel M. Swerdlow is a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology as well as Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics and of History at the University of Chicago. He has served on the Chicago faculty since 1982. Based on an outstanding knowledge of the sources ranging from Oriental to Western and extending over the period from early antiquity to the Copernican, his research is primarily concerned with the history of the exact science from antiquity through the seventeenth century. In his teaching he covers the history of the physical sciences in general. Dr. Swerdlow's published work includes "On Copernicus' Theory of Precession" (1975), "Blackstone's Newtonian Dissent" (1994), "Astronomy in the Renaissance" (1996) and "The Babylonian Theory of the Planets" (1998). He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. | |||