biography
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Sarton, George (Alfred Leon)
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| (1884–1956)
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| biography:
| Historian of science, born in Ghent, NW Belgium. He studied at the university there, and emigrated to the USA in 1915. He taught at Harvard (1920–51), latterly as professor of the history of science. He became the dominant figure of his subject, founding its principal journal, Isis, in 1912, and Osiris in 1936. His monumental Introduction to the History of Science (3 vols, 1927–48) reaches to the 14th-c; later volumes were incomplete at his death. His many books and articles largely shaped the subject as a separate dicipline. |
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