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Seymour Mauskopf

Professor Emeritus of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
226 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


My research interests in the history of science have been quite varied over the years; they include the history of chemistry and allied sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Crystals and Compounds, 1976), the history of chemical technology, focusing on munitions and explosives and the history of parapsychology and marginal science (The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research, with Michael R. McVaugh, 1980). I have edited two books reflective of these different interests: The Reception of Unconventional Science (1979) and Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (1993). In 2006, I received the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor Emeritus of History · 2011 - Present History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate.

Journal Article Ambix · November 2002 First proposed in the early 1780s, Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory was the most successful enunciation of the English pneumatic approach to phlogiston. Phlogiston was identified with a material substance, inflammable air. In this paper, I explore the na ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Symposium: Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2007 - 2007

Support for the Triangle Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1995 - 1995

Triangle Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1994 - 1995

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Education, Training & Certifications


Princeton University · 1966 Ph.D.
Princeton University · 1963 M.A.
Cornell University · 1960 B.A.