Everett Mendelsohn

Short description: American historian of science

Everett Mendelsohn

Born|

Everett Irwin Mendelsohn

(1931-10-28) October 28, 1931 (age 92)

Yonkers, New York

Education|

* Antioch College
* Harvard University

Spouse(s)|

* Mary Maule Leeds
(m. 1954; div. 1974)

* Mary Baughman Anderson (m. 1974)

Scientific career
Fields| History of science
Institutions| Harvard University
Thesis| The development of the theory of animal heat (1960)
Doctoral students| Garland E. Allen

Everett Irwin Mendelsohn (born October 28, 1931)[1]:2 was an American historian of science. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Harvard University, where he was a faculty member from 1960 until his retirement in 2007.[2][3] He is a co-founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on International Security Studies. A self-described pacifist, he has been active in attempting to negotiate peace in the Middle East both as the chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on Middle East Studies and through his work with the American Friends Service Committee.[3][4] He founded the Journal of the History of Biology in 1968 and served as its editor-in-chief for 31 years thereafter.[5] He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970.[6] He received the Gregor Mendel Medal from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1996.[4] In 1998, the Harvard Graduate Council honored Mendelsohn's work mentoring students by establishing the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, which is given annually to academics who are judged to have gone above and beyond in mentoring graduate students at Harvard.[7] In 2007, when Mendelsohn announced his impending retirement, his Harvard colleague Anne Harrington described him as "one of the founders of the social history of science."[3] In 2017, the Journal of the History of Biology established the Everett Mendelsohn Prize in his honor.[5] He died on June 6, 2023 at the age of 91.

## References

1. ↑ Mendelsohn, Everett; Allen, Garland E.; MacLeod, Professor Roy M.; MacLeod, Roy M. (2001) (in en). Science, History and Social Activism. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4020-0495-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=7axYHFEomgMC.
2. ↑ "Everett Mendelsohn" (in en). Harvard University. https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/everett-mendelsohn.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kelly, M. Aidan (2007-06-06). "Hist. of Sci. Prof. To Bid Farewell". The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/6/6/hist-of-sci-prof-to-bid/.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Everett Mendelsohn" (in en-US). Baylor University. https://www.baylor.edu/reynolds_lecture_series/index.php?id=38926.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Journal of the History of Biology" (in en). https://www.springer.com/journal/10739/updates/17192632.
6. ↑ "Everett Irwin Mendelsohn" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/everett-irwin-mendelsohn.
7. ↑ "David J. Mooney receives Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award". Harvard University. https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/04/david-j-mooney-receives-everett-mendelsohn-excellence-mentoring-award.

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*[m.]: married
*[div.]: divorced