John William Servos (b. 1951) is an American professor and historian of science. His research centers on the historical development of science as a discourse and in the form of institutions and on how science has situated itself historically in the culture at large.
Servos is the Anson D. Morse Professor of History at
Amherst College, a
, and past President (2002–2003) of the
History of Science Society
The History of Science Society (HSS) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton, David Eugene Smith, and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publi ...
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His book, ''Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling'', received the History of Science Society's
Pfizer Award
The Pfizer Award is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science"
Recipients
* 1959 Marie Boas Hall, ''Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry'' (New Yor ...
for best book in the history of science in 1991.
He received his B.A. from
Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972, his and his Ph.D. from The
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...
in 1979.
Selected works
Articles
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Books
* Servos, John W.
''Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America'' Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.
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* Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Lees, Lynn Hollen; Servos, John W., ''Global society : the world since 1900'', Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
References
American historians of science
1951 births
Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Columbia College (New York) alumni
American male non-fiction writers
Johns Hopkins University alumni
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