Mary Jo Nye
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Mary Jo Nye (1944–) is an American historian of science. In 2006 she received the prestigious George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society. In 1999 she had received the Dexter Award for outstanding achievement in the history of chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
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[edit] Career
After finishing her studies in Chemistry Nye received her PhD (history of science) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. In the same year she started to teach at the University of Oklahoma. In 1994 she became professor at Oregon State University, where she is heading the graduate program in the history of science. She has worked as as visiting professor at University of California, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at Harvard University.
[edit] Publications (selections)
[edit] As author
- Molecular reality ; A perspective on the scientific work of Jean Perrin, London [usw.]: MacDonald [usw.], 1972
- Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860-1930, University of California Press, 1986, ISBN 0520055616
- Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940, Harvard University Press, Reprint 1999, ISBN 0674063821
- Was Linus Pauling a Revolutionary Chemist? (Award Address - Dexter Award) in: Bull. Hist. Chem. 25 ( 2000), 73-82.
- Blackett. Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 2004 - ISBN 0674015487 - about the English physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
[edit] As editor
- The invention of physical science : intersections of mathematics, theology and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century ; essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert, Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer, 1992
- From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry : dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800 - 1950, Berkeley [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 1993
- The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521571995
