A. Hunter Dupree

Anderson Hunter Dupree, A. Hunter Dupree often, ( born January 29, 1921 in Hillsboro ( Texas)) is an American historian. He is considered one of the pioneers in the field of science and technology history. Dupree taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and until his retirement in 1981 as Professor of History at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Iceland.

Life

Family and Education

Anderson Hunter Dupree came in 1921 as the son of lawyer George W. Dupree and his wife Sarah Hunter in the small Texas town of Hillsboro to the world. At Oberlin College in Ohio, a smaller university with approximately 3,000 students, he obtained in 1942 a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude. After graduating in 1942 he joined the service of the United States Navy, in which it brought to lieutenant of the reserve.

After the end of World War II married Marguerite Dupree 1946 Louise Arnold. The couple has two children: the historian Marguerite Dupree and the harpsichord maker Anderson H. Dupree.

Scientific career

1947 Dupree earned a Master 's Degree from Harvard University, where in 1952 he received his doctorate. His dissertation titled Asa Gray, the development of a statesman of science, 1810-1848 deals with the career of the botanist and natural historian Jewellers Asa Gray, is awarded in his honor since 1984, the Asa Gray Award, the highest award of the American Society of Plant taxonomists.

1950 Dupree received his first academic position as assistant professor of history at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University ) in Lubbock. In Lubbock he remained for two years, until 1952, he accepted a research fellow ( research fellow ) at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard. The scholarship he perceived in the periods 1952-1954 and 1955-1956. In the meantime, 1953-1955, he served as project manager on delivery basis ( on grants ) for the National Science Foundation operates.

1956 appointed him to the University of California, Berkeley as Assistant Visiting Professor ( visiting assistant professor ) of History, 1958 to the extraordinary (associate professor ) and 1960 to full professor (full professor ). In Berkeley Dupree remained until 1968. During this period he was 1960-1962 also assistant to the chancellor and 1965/1966 Director of the university's Bancroft Library. In addition, he sat 1963/64, as a consultant in the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

1968 appointed him to the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Iceland, the George L. Littlefield Chair of History. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1981 During this professorship, he was also active. From 1969 to 1973 as a consultant in the body for science and technology and space (Science and Technology and Astronautics ) the House of Representatives of the United States; as Trustee of the " Museum of American Textile History"; as a member of the " NASA Historical Advisory Committee" and the "Atomic Energy Commission 's Historical Advisory Committee ".

Honors and Awards

1976 Dupree received the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences ( NYAS ). 1978/79 voted him the " Center for Advanced Studies " at the National Humanities Center (NHC ) as a Fellow. In 1990 he was awarded the George Sarton Medal, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science, founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson History of Science Society ( HSS).

Publications

  • Some Letters from Charles Darwin to Jeffries Wyman. In: Isis, Vol 42, Part 2, No.128. ( June, 1951), pp. 104-110.
  • Thomas Nuttall 's Controversy With Asa Gray. In: Rhodora, Vol 54, (1952 ), pp. 293 -303.
  • Science vs. the Military: Dr. James Morrow and the Perry Expedition. In: The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 22, no 1 (1953 ), pp. 29-37.
  • Jeffries Wyman 's views on evolution. In: Isis, vol. 44 (1953 ), pp. 243-246.
  • Science in the Federal Government, a history of policies and activities to 1940. (1957, 1986)
  • Asa Gray, 1810-1888 (1959, 1968, 1988)
  • "What the historian wants manuscripts saved". In: Isis, vol. 53 (1962 ), pp. 63-66.
  • Darwiniana; essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray; A. Hunter Dupree edited. (1963)
  • Science and the Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1916, edited by A. Hunter Dupree. (1963)
  • Some general implications of the research of the Harvard University Program on Technology and Society, edited by Emmanuel G. Mesthene. Comment: the anticipation of change by Simon Ramo. Comment: Is technology predictable? by Peter F. Drucker. Comment: the role of technology in society and the need for historical perspective by A. Hunter Dupree. Comment on the comments by Emmanuel G. Mesthene. (1969)
  • " The crisis in authority". In: Brown Alumni Monthly, vol. 70, no 1, (1969)
  • Science and society: past, present, and future edited by Nicholas H. Steneck with a contribution by A. Hunter Dupree (1975 )
  • Sir Joseph Banks and the origins of science policy. In: James Ford Bell Lecture; no 22 (1984).
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