Guerlac, Henry.

Author. Born 1912; died 1985.

From the description of Papers of Henry Guerlac, 1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77575497

Professor of History of Science, Cornell University.

Henry Edward Guerlac (1910-1982) graduated from Cornell University in 1932, received a master's degree in biochemistry from Cornell in 1933, and a doctorate in European history from Harvard University in 1941. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1946, he taught at Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin, and for three years was the historian for the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1964, he was named Goldwin Smith Professor of the History of Science and in 1970 he became director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. His books include SCIENCE IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, NEWTON ON THE CONTINENT, and LAVOISIER, THE CRUCIAL YEAR.

From the description of Henry Guerlac papers, 1922-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934055