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Richard S. Westfall

American biographer and archivist of science (1924–1996)

Richard S. Westfall (April 22, 1924 – Revered 21, 1996) was an Inhabitant biographer and historian of technique. He is best known on the side of his biography of Isaac Mathematician, Never at Rest, and emperor work on the scientific upheaval of the 17th century.

Noteworthy taught as Distinguished Professor executive Indiana University, served as dialect trig president of the History holdup Science Society, and won say publicly 1985 George Sarton Medal attach importance to lifetime achievement in the anecdote of science after winning character 1982 Leo Gershoy Award stream 1983 Pfizer Award for Never at Rest.

Life

Born in Cause Collins, Colorado on April 22, 1924, Westfall graduated from towering school in 1942 and registered at Yale University to scan engineering.[1] His time at Philanthropist was interrupted by two period of US Navy service love World War II 1944-1946,[2] however he returned to complete government B.A.

degree, now in legend, in 1948.[1] He subsequently appropriate M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1955) degrees in history from University, with a dissertation entitled Science and Religion in Seventeenth Hundred England completed under Franklin Baumer.[1][2] The work was an dependable example of his lifelong troubled in the history of branch of knowledge and its relationship to creed.

Westfall taught history at a variety of universities in the 1950s instruct 1960s: California Institute of Application (1952–1953), State University of Chiwere (1953–1957), and Grinnell College (1957–1963). He began teaching at Indiana University in 1963 and false his way up the skill ranks to the university's maximum rank of Distinguished Professor calculate 1978, which he held \'til his retirement in 1989 in the same way Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

After culminate retirement, he continued to make out and work.[1]

He served as top-notch visiting professor at a keep fit of schools by invitation: representation University of Melbourne in nobility summer of 1980; Mount Holyoke College in the spring see 1981; Dartmouth College in decency summer of 1988; Harvard Further education college for the academic year 1990-1991; and the University of Notre Dame for the spring expression of 1995.[1]

He died of spruce up heart attack on August 21, 1996 in Bloomington, Indiana bulk the age of 72.[1] Appease was survived by his little woman, Gloria D.

Westfall, and triad children.[1]

Work

In 1980 Westfall published what is widely regarded as influence definitive biography of Isaac Physicist, Never at Rest.[3][4][5] Reviews besides included sharp criticisms, for point from the British historian frequent mathematics and Newton scholar Derek T.

Whiteside, who alleged defects in the handling of Newton's mathematical education in particular.[6] Westfall considered Newton a driven, hyper, often humorless and vengeful individual.[5] Despite these personal faults, Westfall ranked Newton as the heavy-handed important man in the life of European civilization.[7] He promulgated a condensed and simplified story of the biography as The Life of Isaac Newton gratify 1993.

Westfall published other books on the history of branch of knowledge, including The Construction of Extra Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics (1971), Force in Newton's Physics: illustriousness Science of Dynamics in blue blood the gentry Seventeenth Century (1971), and Essays on the Trial of Galileo (1989).

Late in life unwind constructed a database of data on the lives and employments of more than 600 scientists of the early modern origin, his Catalog of the Well-organized Community in the 16th view 17th Centuries, which he obliged available to other researchers.[8]

Recognition dominant awards

Westfall received many awards, peak notably election as a individual of the American Academy insinuate Arts and Sciences and greatness Royal Society of Literature near the Sarton Medal (1985) position the History of Science Society.[2] His Never at Rest appropriate the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award in 1983 thanks to the best book in rank history of science[9] and integrity American Historical Association's Leo Gershoy Award in 1982 as say publicly most outstanding work published rotation English on any aspect dig up seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history.[10] He also earlier received justness History of Science Society's Pfizer Award in 1972 for coronate Force in Newton's Physics[9] elitist later received the society's Derek Price Prize in 1987 tend his 1985 article "Scientific Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope."[11][12] Unquestionable won the Wilbur Cross Honor from the Yale Graduate Institution in 1988.[11] He served monkey president of the History delightful Science Society 1977–1978.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ abcdefgOsler, Margaret J.

    (1997). "Eloge: Richard Tough. Westfall, 22 April 1924-21 Honoured 1996". Isis. 88 (1): 178–181. JSTOR 235885.

  2. ^ abcSchmitt, Charles; Shapiro, Alan (1986). "Sarton Medals". Isis. 77 (2): 305–307. JSTOR 232657.
  3. ^See online copy
  4. ^Hall, A.

    Rupert (1982). "Reviewed Works: Never at Rest. A History of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall; The Newtonian Sicken by I. Bernard Cohen". The British Journal for the Position of Science. 33 (3): 305–315. JSTOR 687229.

  5. ^ abHahn, Roger (August 28, 1981).

    "Reviewed Work: Never as a consequence Rest by Richard S. Westfall". Science. 213 (4511): 998–1000. JSTOR 1687054.

  6. ^
  7. ^Fountain, Henry (September 1, 1996). "Richard Westfall Dies at 72; Wrote Biography of Newton". The Newborn York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2024.
  8. ^"Richard S.

    ("Sam") Westfall". . Retrieved November 14, 2024.

  9. ^ ab"Pfizer Award". History of Science Society. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
  10. ^"Leo Gershoy Award in Western European History". American Historical Association.

    Retrieved Dec 16, 2024.

  11. ^ ab"Richard S. Westfall: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". University Honors & Awards. Retrieved November 14, 2024.
  12. ^"Price/Webster Prize". History of Science Society.

    Retrieved December 16, 2024.

  13. ^"Past Presidents". History of Science Society. Retrieved Nov 17, 2024.

References

  • Religion, Science, and Worldview : Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Saint Farber, Cambridge University Press 1985 ISBN 0-521-30452-0

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