Ronald Numbers

Ronald L. Numbers ( born June 3, 1942) is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He lives with his wife, Janet S. Numbers, and his daughter Lesley in Madison, Wisconsin.

Academic Career

Ronald L. Numbers has studied at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee mathematics and physics. At the University of Florida, he has a degree in history with an MA and completed his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley on a science- historical theme. As Josiah Macy Fellow, he spent a year at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, in addition, he spent a year as a Fellow of the "Interdisciplinary Studies Program " at an institute of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Since 1974 he teaches science and history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He is there, " William Coleman Professor " of the History of Science and Medicine.

He was a member of the boards of the American Society for the History of Medicine, the Society for the History of Science and the American Society of Church History. In the period from 1989 to 1993 he was editor of the journal Isis, the organ of the American Society for the History of Science. He is currently working on the article " American History of Science " for the lexicon of the " Cambridge History of Science Series ."

2008 Numbers 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).

Writings

• The Creationists. The evolution of scientific creationism, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 ( expanded edition. Creationists From The scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
• Darwinism Comes to America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.