Peggy A. Kidwell

Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is an American historian of science, formerly the curator of mathematics at the National Museum of American History. ^[1]

Education

Kidwell graduated from Grinnell College in 1971. She went to Yale University for graduate study, earning an M. Phil. in 1974 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979. ^[1] Her doctoral dissertation was Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600–1860). ^[2]

Books

Kidwell is the co-author of:

• Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History (with Paul E. Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994) ^[3]
• Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 (with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) ^[4]

With Michael R. Williams, she is the translator and editor of:

• The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (by Ernst Martin, MIT Press, 1992). ^[5]

Recognition

In 2018, Kidwell was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on the History of Physics, "for distinguished contributions to the history of physics, astronomy, and mathematics, particularly the work of women in these fields, the development of Harvard College Observatory, and the history of mathematical theory, instruments of computation, and mathematics education". ^[6]

References

1. "Peggy A. Kidwell", Our People, National Museum of American History, archived from the original on 2020-05-19, retrieved 2020-02-14
2. Worldcat catalog entry for Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600-1860), retrieved 2020-02-14
3. Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
   • Hammerton, James Cecil (1994), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews , Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN   9781560983118
   • Feldman, Larry (March 1995), The Mathematics Teacher , 88 (3): 243, JSTOR   27969287
   • Small, James S. (July 1995), Technology and Culture , 36 (3): 717–719, doi:10.2307/3107276, JSTOR   3107276
   • Swarzlander, Earl (Fall 1995), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , 17 (3): 82, doi:10.1109/mahc.1995.397068, S2CID   21629366
   • Mahoney, Michael S. (December 1995), Isis , 86 (4): 691–692, doi:10.1086/357396, JSTOR   235455
   • Babaian, Sharon (Winter 1996), The Public Historian , 18 (1): 132–134, doi:10.2307/3377903, JSTOR   3377903
4. Reviews of Tools of American Mathematics Teaching:
   • Althoen, Steven C., zbMATH , Zbl   1156.00011
   • Grier, David Alan (January 2009), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , 31 (1): 73, doi:10.1109/mahc.2009.15
   • Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (March–April 2009), "Things that teach", American Scientist , 97 (2): 170–171, doi:10.1511/2009.77.170, JSTOR   27859312
   • Wisnioski, Matt (April 2009), Technology and Culture , 50 (2): 500–502, doi:10.1353/tech.0.0281, JSTOR   40345646
   • Kilpatrick, Jeremy (May 2009), Science Education , 93 (3): 581–583, doi: 10.1002/sce.20335
   • Shell-Gellasch, Amy (August 2009), Historia Mathematica , 36 (3): 283–285, doi: 10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.004
   • Strassfeld, Brenda (November 2009), "Review", The Mathematics Teacher , 103 (4): 311, JSTOR   20876614
   • Bennett, Andrew G. (2010), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 57 (1): 53–55, MR   2590115
   • Silver, Daniel S. (February 2010), American Mathematical Monthly , 117 (2): 190–192, doi:10.4169/000298910X476112, JSTOR   10.4169/000298910x476112, MR   2590199, S2CID   218543934
   • Crossfield, Don (February 2010), "Review", Convergence, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.4169/loci002860 (inactive 12 July 2025)
   • Van Brummelen, Glen (March 2010), Isis , 101 (1): 236–237, doi:10.1086/653893, JSTOR   10.1086/653893
   • Ehrhardt, Caroline (January–March 2011), Histoire de l'Éducation (in French), 129 (129): 88–91, doi: 10.4000/histoire-education.2308 , JSTOR   41342833
   • Sinclair, Nathalie; Chorney, Sean (April 2012), Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 14 (2): 173–178, doi:10.1080/10986065.2012.660034, S2CID   143234945
5. Reviews of The Calculating Machines:
   • Golan, Jonathan Samuel (1992), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ISBN   9780262132787
   • Booth, A. D. (1993), Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH, MR   1174086, Zbl   1066.01501
   • Tweedale, Geoffrey (March 1993), The British Journal for the History of Science , 26 (1): 126–127, doi:10.1017/S0007087400030648, JSTOR   4027388
   • Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society , 13 (3): 182, June 1993, doi:10.1177/027046769301300399, S2CID   220737211
   • Swade, Doron (March 1994), Isis , 85 (1): 136–137, doi:10.1086/356742, JSTOR   235911
6. APS Fellows Nominated by FHP: 2018, APS Forum on the History of Physics, retrieved 2020-06-26