Michael Sokal

Michael Sokal is a retired professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the history of science.^[1] He received his PhD in history of science and technology from Case Western Reserve University in 1972. His research focuses on James McKeen Cattell, a prominent psychologist and scientific impresario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the 2004-2005 president of the History of Science Society.^[2]

References

↑ http://users.wpi.edu/~msokal/, retrieved 31 Jan 2012
↑ "WPI professor named society president". Telegram & Gazette. 10 February 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2011.

Presidents of the History of Science Society

1924–1949	Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1924–1925) James Henry Breasted (1926) David Eugene Smith (1927) Edgar Fahs Smith (1928) Lynn Thorndike (1929) Henry Crew (1930) William H. Welch (1931) Berthold Laufer (1932) J. Playfair McMurrich (1933) Harvey Williams Cushing (1934) Charles Albert Browne, Jr. (1935–1936) Chauncey D. Leake (1937–1938) Henry E. Sigerist (1939) Richard H. Shryock (1940–1942) Louis Charles Karpinski (1943–1944) Isaiah Bowman (1944) Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1945–1946) John Farquhar Fulton (1947–1950)

1950–1999	Harcourt Brown (1951–1952) Dorothy Stimson (1953–1956) Henry Guerlac (1957–1960) I. Bernard Cohen (1961–1962) Marshall Clagett (1963–1964) Charles Coulston Gillispie (1965–1966) C. D. O'Malley (1967–1968) Thomas Kuhn (1969–1970) Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (1971–1972) Erwin N. Hiebert (1973–1974) John C. Greene (1975–1976) Richard S. Westfall (1977-1978) Robert P. Multhauf (1979–1980) Frederic L. Holmes (1981–1982) Gerald Holton (1983–1984) Edward Grant (1985–1986) William Coleman (1987) Mary Jo Nye (1988–1989) Stephen G. Brush (1990–1991) Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (1992–1993) David C. Lindberg (1994–1995) Frederick Gregory (1996–1997) Albert Van Helden (1998–1999)

2000–present	Ronald Numbers (2000–2001) John Servos (2002–2003) Michael Sokal (2004–2005) Joan Cadden (2006–2007) Jane Maienschein (2008–2009) Paul Lawrence Farber (2010–2011) Lynn K. Nyhart (2012–2013) Angela N. H. Creager (2014–2015) Janet Browne (2016-2017)

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