Background
Kranzberg, Melvin was born on November 22, 1917 in St. Louis. Son of Samuel and Rose (Fitter) Kranzberg.
(In their history of man and his work, the authors have to...)
In their history of man and his work, the authors have told the story of work, how man has conceived of it, organized it, and reacted to it from pre-historic times to the present, and they speculate what work will become in the future as man is increasingly replaced by machine. The book is divided into three main sections: "Work in the Pre-Industrial Age," "Work in the Early Industrial Age," and "Modern Production: Technology and Consequences."
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historian university professor
Kranzberg, Melvin was born on November 22, 1917 in St. Louis. Son of Samuel and Rose (Fitter) Kranzberg.
AB, Amherst College, 1938. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1942.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Denison University, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Newark College Engineering, 1968. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Northern Michigan University, 1972.
Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1981. Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Colorado School of Mines, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Amherst College, 1983.
Administrative assistant service trades branch, OPA, 1941-1942;
instructor history, tutor, Harvard, 1946;
instructor humanities, Stevens Institute Technology, 1946-1947;
assistant professor of history, Amherst College, 1947-1952;
member of faculty, Case Western Reserve U., 1952-1972;
professor of history, Case Western Reserve U., 1959-1972;
director graduate program history science and technical, Case Western Reserve U., 1963-1972;
Callaway professor of history technical, Georgia Institute Technology, 1972-1988, emeritus, since 1988. Adjunct Professor seminary technical, social change, Columbia University, 1962-1972. Harris Foundation lecturer Northwestern University, 1970.
Mellon lecturer Lehigh University, 1975. Member technical assessment panel National Academy Sciences, 1968-1969, member committee survey materials science and engineering, 1971-1972. Chairman history advising committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1967-1969, 84-87, member of national advisory council, 1984-1987.
Vice chairman United States National Committee History and Philosophy Science, 1970-1971, chairman, 1972-1973. Vice president International Cooperative History Technology Committee, International Union History Science, 1968-1989, honorary president, since 1989. Member Goddard prize essay committee National Space Club, 1966-1974.
History committee American Institute Aeronautics an Astronautics, 1965-1966. Member honorary committee 1st International Film Festival on Human Environment. United States State Department specialist, India, 1975, S.E. Asia, 1976, Africa, 1979, West Germany, 1982.
Member of advisory committee program science, technical and human values National Endowment for Humanities, 1975-1977. Chairman advisory panel division policy research and analysis National Science Foundation, also division science resources studies, 1977-1980. Member panel on engineering interactions with society, National Research Council, 1983-1985.
Member international advisory board Edelstein Center History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, since 1988. Member review committee Goldwater Scholarship Program Ednl. Testing Svc., since 1989.
Member history advisory panel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1992-1993. Member of advisory committee Cohen Institute History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv U., since 1993.
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Trustee Charles Babbage Institute. Honorary trustee Birmingham History Society, since 1993. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1966, section chairman 1978-1979, Chairman of Commission science and pub.policy 1978-1981), Royal Society Arts. Member Society History Technology (secretary 1958-1974, president 1983-1984, Leonardo da Vinci medal 1968), Society French History Studies (vice president 1959), Czechoslovak Academy History of Science and Technology (honorary foreign member), American Society Engineering Education (chairman humanistic social division 1957-1958, edit advisory board 1987-1990, Olmsted award liberal education division 1991), American History Association (chairman congressional fellowships committee 1982-1983, chairman American Heart Association-National Aeronautics and Space Administration fellowship committee 1985-1988), National Association Science, Technology and Society (board directors 1988-1992, honorary life member since 1992), Phi Beta Kappa (lecturer 1981-1990), Sigma Xi (national lecturer 1967, 68, 90, 91, Bicentennial lecturer 1975-1977, board directors 1971-1980, national Executive Board 1972-1988, president 1979-1980, science and society committee 1982-1990, long range planning committee 1986-1990, guest editorCentennial issue 1989).
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Married, 1943; children: Steven, John. Married Louise Clark Catlett, 1985.