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Joseph Dauben

Date of Birth 29-December-1944
Place of Birth Santa Monica
(California, United States of America, Los Angeles County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Joseph W. Dauben
Joseph W. Dauben is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His fields of expertise are history of science, history of mathematics, the scientific revolution, sociology of science, intellectual history, 17-18th centuries, history of Chinese science, and the history of botany. His book Abraham Robinson was reviewed positively by Moshé Machover, but he noted that it avoids discussing any of Robinson's negative aspects, and "in this respect [the book] borders on the hagiographic, painting a portrait without warts." Dauben in a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Dauben is an elected member of the International Academy of the History of Science. and an elected foreign member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work. In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Awards by Joseph Dauben

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1980


Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
(History of Science & Technology)