George Basalla

George Basalla (1928-2025, Altoona, Pennsylvania) ^[1] is an American historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. ^[2]

Education and career

Basalla completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Harvard University in 1963. His dissertation, Science and Government in England 1800–1870, was supervised by I. Bernard Cohen. ^[3] He became an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, ^[4] and was appointed as an associate professor at the University of Delaware in 1971. ^[5] He retired to become a professor emeritus in 1999. ^[6]

Books

Basalla's books include:

• Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials (Oxford University Press, 2006) ^[7]
• The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1989) ^[8]
• Victorian Science: a self-portrait from the presidential addresses of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (edited with William Coleman and Robert H. Kargon, Doubleday, 1970) ^[9]
• The Rise of Modern Science: Internal or External Factors? (edited, D. C. Heath, 1968) ^[10]
• The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton: An Exhibit of Books & Manuscripts from the History of Science Collection (edited, special issue of The Texas Quarterly, 1967) ^[11]

See also

• Search for extraterrestrial intelligence § George Basalla

References

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2. "Emeriti Faculty - Department of History". Department of History. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
3. "Ph. D. Theses in the History of Science By Year: 1941 through 2015" (PDF). Harvard Department of the History of Science. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
4. "News". Isis . 55 (2): 209–212. June 1964. doi:10.1086/349830. JSTOR   228187. S2CID   224836476.
5. "Historical news and notices". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (1): 147–155. February 1971. JSTOR   2205961.
6. "Historical news and notices". The Journal of Southern History. 65 (1): 207–217. February 1999. JSTOR   2587786.
7. Reviews of Civilized Life in the Universe:
   • Brown, Helen (30 April 2006). "ET has been phoning home for centuries". The Daily Telegraph .
   • Dick, Steven J. (January 2007). Physics Today . 60 (1): 57–58. Bibcode:2007PhT....60a..57B. doi:10.1063/1.2709561.
   • Foust, Jeff (12 June 2006). "Review". The Space Review .
   • Hengeveld, Rob (March 2007). Acta Biotheoretica . 54 (4): 301–304. doi:10.1007/s10441-007-9003-z. S2CID   83897164.
   • Shermer, Michael (3 March 2006). "Deities for atheists". Science . New Series. 311 (5765): 1244. doi:10.1126/science.1126115. JSTOR   3845819. S2CID   170330171.
   • Texley, Juliana (March–April 2007). Journal of College Science Teaching. 36 (5): 63. JSTOR   42992698.
8. Reviews of The Evolution of Technology:
   • Social Studies of Science . 20 (3): 571. August 1990. JSTOR   285013.
   • Barco, Juan Manuel Matés (December 1991). "Review of 1991 Spanish edition". Revista de Historia Económica. 9 (3): 596–601. doi:10.1017/s0212610900003141. S2CID   154954314.
   • Braun, Ernst (June 1990). Prometheus. 8 (1): 171–172. doi: 10.1080/08109029008631882 .
   • Braun, Hans-Joachim (1991). VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 78 (2): 292–293. JSTOR   20735975.
   • Bruyn, G. W. (June 1991). Journal of the Neurological Sciences . 103 (2): 240. doi:10.1016/0022-510x(91)90176-8. S2CID   54412324.
   • Dunlavy, Colleen A. (1 September 1989). Science . New Series. 245 (4921): 991. doi:10.1126/science.245.4921.991. JSTOR   1704203. PMID   17780540.
   • Fleck, James (Spring 1992). "Selectionism dominant: An essay review". Science, Technology, & Human Values . 17 (2): 237–248. doi:10.1177/016224399201700207. JSTOR   689787.
   • Hansen, James R. (September 1990). Isis . 81 (3): 556–557. doi:10.1086/355480. JSTOR   233447.
   • Hollister-Short, Graham (June 1990). The British Journal for the History of Science . 23 (2): 239–241. doi:10.1017/S0007087400044939. JSTOR   4026742. S2CID   144799406.
   • Ilerbaig, Juan F. (December 1992). "Review of 1991 Spanish edition". Arbor. 143 (564): 117–120. ProQuest   1301394344.
   • Joravsky, David (7 December 1989). "Machine dreams". The New York Review of Books.
   • Langrish, John (January 1990). Design Studies. 11 (1): 56–IBC. doi:10.1016/0142-694x(90)90018-8.
   • Mayr, Otto (January 1991). Technology and Culture . 32 (1): 130–131. doi:10.2307/3106017. JSTOR   3106017.
   • Regis, Ed (9 April 1989). "Exposing the myth of 'eureka'". The worlds of science. The New York Times .
   • Schick, Kathy D. (March 1990). The Quarterly Review of Biology . 65 (1): 63–64. doi:10.1086/416595. JSTOR   2831558.
   • Schnaars, Steven P. (January 1989). International Journal of Forecasting . 5 (4): 611–612. doi:10.1016/0169-2070(89)90019-8.
9. Reviews of Victorian Science:
   • Farrall, Lyndsay (December 1972). Isis . 63 (4): 584–585. doi:10.1086/351024. JSTOR   229798.
   • Morrell, J. B. (June 1972). The British Journal for the History of Science . 6 (1): 99–100. doi:10.1017/S0007087400012152. JSTOR   4025281. S2CID   126479683.
   • Oppenheimer, Jane (September 1971). The Quarterly Review of Biology . 46 (3): 278. JSTOR   2822520.
10. Review of The Rise of Modern Science:
    • Thackray, Arnold (Fall 1970). Isis . 61 (3): 398–399. doi:10.1086/350659. JSTOR   229695.
11. Review of The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton:
    • Parkinson, George Henry Radcliffe (1970). Studia Leibnitiana . 2 (2): 146–147. JSTOR   40693594.