Marie Boas Hall

Marie Boas Hall ( born October 18, 1919 as Marie Boas, † 23 February 2009) was a British historian of science.

Hall grew up in New England as the daughter of two English professors and studied from 1936 to 1940 at Radcliffe College chemistry. From 1944, she was at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, in which she wrote with Henry Guerlac in the history of radar research laboratory during the war. In 1949 she received his doctorate from Cornell University in Guerlac in the History of Science ( with a thesis on Robert Boyle, published in Osiris 1952). After that, she was among other things at Brandeis University. In 1951, she went to Cambridge to study the papers of Robert Boyle and met Rupert Hall, whom she married after the joint return to the U.S. in 1959. From 1957, were both at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1961 at Indiana University and in 1963 at Imperial College in London, where she remained until her retirement in 1980. She died 18 days after the death of her husband Rupert Hall. She lived with her husband in Tackley in Oxford.

Marie Boas Hall dealt mainly with the " Scientific Revolution " in the Early Modern and Baroque, especially with the history of the Royal Society and Robert Boyle. She gave writings of Boyle out new and wrote his biography in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( 1970).

With her husband Rupert Hall gave 1962 unpublished works of Newton out and the correspondence of Henry Oldenbourg, the first secretary of the Royal Society in London, whose biography she wrote. With her husband Rupert Hall it was a facsimile edition of the history of the Royal Society in the 18th century (1756 /7) by Thomas Birch out again.

In 1981 she received with her husband the George Sarton Medal. In 1994 she became a Fellow of the British Academy.

Writings

  • Henry Oldenbourg - shaping the Royal Society. Oxford University Press 2002
  • The renaissance of natural sciences from 1450 to 1630. The age of Copernicus. Gütersloh 1965, Greno, Nördlingen 1988 ( English: The scientific renaissance Collins, London 1962. )
  • All scientists now. The Royal Society in the 19th Century. Cambridge University Press, 1984
  • Promoting experimental learning: experiment and the Royal Society from 1660 to 1727. Cambridge University Pressm 1991
  • Robert Boyle and 17th Century chemistry. 1958 Cambridge, New York 1968
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