Education
Guerlac earned his Doctor of Philosophy in European history from Harvard in 1941.
Guerlac earned his Doctor of Philosophy in European history from Harvard in 1941.
During World World War II, he worked in the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Marie Boas Hall assisted him in writing "the history of the laboratory and of the operational use of radar during the war."
He served as president of the society from 1957-1960. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978, and in 1982 was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d"Honneur by France.
He taught at Cornell University where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History.
