Charles Coulston Gillispie

Charles Coulston Gillispie (born 1918) is an American historian of science, and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.

The son of Raymond Livingston Gillispie,^[1] Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.^[2] He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940,^[3] and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949.

Gillispie joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He was president of the History of Science Society from 1965-66.^[4] He headed the editorial board of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, for which he received the Dartmouth Medal in 1981. Gillispie also received the Pfizer Award in 1981. He was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society in 1984 and the Balzan Prize in 1997 for "the extraordinary contribution he has made to the history and philosophy of science by his intellectually vigorous, precise works, as well as his editing of a great reference work".

Works

• Genesis and geology: a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Britain, 1790-1850, 1951
• The edge of objectivity: an essay in the history of scientific ideas, 1960
• Lazare Carnot savant, 1971
• Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime, 1980. Winner of the 1981 Pfizer Award.
• Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. (2004)
• The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784, 1983
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: a life in exact science, 1997
• Essays and reviews in history and history of science, 2006

References

External links

• Web page at Princeton University
• Works by or about Charles Coulston Gillispie in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Works by Charles Coulston Gillispie on Open Library at the Internet Archive