Marshall Clagett

Marshall Clagett (January 23, 1916 - October 21, 2005) was an American scholar who specialized in the history of science.

Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at the California Institute of Technology and George Washington University. After service in the United States Navy during World War II, he took up teaching posts and published works on the history of science in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. He was an acknowledged expert on the work of Archimedes, and his five-volume Archimedes in the Middle Ages was published over 20 years from 1964. In his later years he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was a professor emeritus in the Department of Historical Studies. Clagett died in Princeton at the age of 89.