Noel Swerdlow

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Noel M. Swerdlow

Residence United States
Fields History of science, history of astronomy
Institutions University of Chicago
Alma mater Yale University, 1968[1]
Notable awards MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[2]

Noel M. Swerdlow is Professor of History and of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of exact sciences, astronomy in particular, from antiquity through the seventeenth century.[3]

In 1988 Swerdlow received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, often referred to as the "genius grant."[4]

[edit] Books

  • The Babylonian Theory of the Planets. Princeton University Press, 1998.

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