Laura Otis

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Laura Otis
Born1967 (age 5657)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale University
University of California, San Francisco
Cornell University
Academic career
DisciplineHistory of science
InstitutionsEmory University

Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University. [1]

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She graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California, San Francisco with an M.A. in Neuroscience in 1988, and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991.

She is a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. [2]

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References

  1. "Laura Otis: Professor". emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  2. Otis, Laura (19 February 2010). "Reconnecting Visual and Verbal Thinking". Penn Humanities Forum. Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2010-04-24.