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1Name:  Dr. John L. Heilbron
 Institution:  Worcester College, Oxford & University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  1990
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404c
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1934
   
 
John Heilbron spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned his academic degrees. He was Professor of History and Director, Office for the History of Science and Technology, 1973-1994, and the University's Vice Chancellor, 1990-1994. Since his retirement, Dr. Heilbron has acted as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and Yale University, while continuing as editor of Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and the recipient of several honorary degrees. Among his awards is the 2006 Pais Prize for History of Physics, presented jointly by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Heilbron's books include Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1979, reprinted in 1999); Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman of German Science (1986, reprinted in 2000); Geometry Civilized (1998); The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (1999); as general editor, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (2003); Galileo (2010); The History of Physics, a Very Short Introduction (2018); Niels Bohr, a Very Short Introduction (2019); The Ghost of Galileo in a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War (2021); and The Incomparable Monsignor, Francesco Bianchini's World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue (2022). John Heilbron was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1990.
 
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