Gerald. PH n HOLTON

Background

HOLTON, Gerald. PH n was born on May 23, 1922 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Doctor Emanuel and Regina (Rossman) Holton.

Education

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Harvard University.

Career

Professor, of Physics and Professor, of History of Science since 1975. Visiting Professor, MIT since 1976. National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow, Paris 1960-1961.

Exchange Professor, Leningrad University 1962. Founder and; President 1982-1984. Fellow, American Physical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, Academie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, (Vice-President 1982-1989), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.

Visiting; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California 1975-1976. Lecturer, Oxford 1979, Jefferson Lecturer 1981. Robert A. Millikan.

Works

• Other Work

  • Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science 1952, Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought 1973, Scientific imagination 1978, Limits of Scientific Inquiry (Editor) 1979, Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Editor) 1982, The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens 1986. Member Editorial Board, Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Membership

Council, History of Science Society 1959-1961. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1964, 1967. National Academy, of Science Committee on Communication with Scholars in the People's Republic of China, United States National Commission, on IUHPS.

Board of Governors, American Institute of Physics 1969-1974. United States National Commission, on UNESCO 1975-1980, Library of Congress Council of Scholars since 1979, United States National Commission, on Excellence in Education 1981-1983, National Humanities Center since 1989. Editorial Board, Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Interests

• Music, kayaking.

Connections

Married Nina Rossfort in 1947.

Father:

Doctor Emanuel

Mother:

Regina (Rossman) Holton

Spouse:

Nina Rossfort