• BS 1972--California Institute of Technology
  • Daniel J. Kevles, undergraduate advisor
• MA 1976, PhD 1982--University of Pennsylvania
  • Arnold Thackray, graduate advisor
  • Dissertation: Academic Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: Diversification, Growth, and Change

• Cultural dimensions of American science and technology
• Science, technology, class, and community
• Chemistry and chemical technology since Liebig
• Sudden, comprehensive cultural transformations

• American graduate academic chemistry programs before World War II
• Careers of PhD chemists and chemical engineers in America
• Use of life course studies methods in science and technology studies
• Laboratory design in the United States since 1850

• Executive Director, Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway, 1997-present.
• Associate Professor of History, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1989-1996. Assistant Professor of History, 1982-1989. Instructor of History, 1980-1982. Adjunct, off-and-on since 1997 in both that Department and in the School of Architecture.
• Exxon Research Fellow, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1985-1986.
• Research Associate, Chemical Indicators Project, University of Pennsylvania. Quantitative study of chemistry in America since 1876; supported by the National Science Foundation. 1975-1980.
• Senior Tutor (special instructorship), University of Pennsylvania. Designed and taught core courses for undergraduate majors. 1976-1977.
• Assistant Editor, Darwin Correspondence Project, American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia. Launched program to locate, collate, transcribe, and publish the correspondence of Charles Darwin; supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and other patrons. 1975-1976.
• Mellon Fellow, American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia. Prepared reference book on Charles Darwin. 1973-1975.
• Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Course on science and literature. 1972.
• Assistant to Historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. Developed computerized index for historical archives; wrote historical paper. 1970-1972.

• Guide to the History of Science, 8th Edition. Editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for the History of Science Society, 1992.
• Guide to the History of Science 1986. Editor. Philadelphia: History of Science Society, 1987. (See below for supplement published in 1988.)
• Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: Historical Indicators. With Arnold Thackray, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, and Robert Bud. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1985; paperback, Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Reviewed in Science 230 (October-December 1985) 800; Chemistry and Industry (21 October 1985) 683; Nature 318 (14 November 1985) 124; Ambix 33 (1986) 153-154; American Laboratory 18 (January 1986) 9-11; American Chemical Society, Journal 108 (1986) 2494-2495; Science, Technology, and Human Values 11, 3 (summer 1986) 68-69; American Historical Review 91 (1986) 998; Annals of Science 43 (1986) 598-599; British Journal for the History of Science 19 (1986) 235; Chemical & Engineering News 64, 23 (9 June 1986) 91-94; Chemistry in Britain 22 (1986) 663; Isis 77 (1986) 348-349; Scientometrics 10 (1986) 224-225; and Bulletin of the History of Chemistry 2 (1988) 22.
• A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith. David Kohn and William Montgomery, Associate Editors. P. Thomas Carroll and Charlotte Bowman, Assistant Editors. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 369. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Reviewed in The New Yorker 63, 41 (30 November 1987) 171-190.
• Guide to the History of Science 1983. Co-Edited with Ronald Calinger and Linda F. Stevens. Philadelphia: History of Science Society, 1983. Partially reprinted as Scholarly Journals in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Guide. Compiled by Roy E. Goodman. Philadelphia: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of the History of Science, Commission on Publications, 1984.
• An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Editor. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1976. Reviewed in Isis 70 (1979) 183.
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• "Pluralism, Profits, and Practicality: Science in the USA," in Trevor I. Williams, Science: Invention and Discovery in the 20th Century (London: Harrap Books Ltd., 1990), 154-155.
• "How Atoms Unite," in Owen Gingerich, ed., Album of Science: The Physical Sciences in the Twentieth Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989), 156-165.
• "Historical Origins of the Sergeant Missile Powerplant," in Kristan R. Lattu and R. Cargill Hall, eds., History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Seventh and Eighth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, AAS History Series, Vol. 8; IAA History Symposia, Vol. 3 (San Diego: Univelt, Inc., for the American Astronautical Society, 1989), 121-146.
• Society for Social Studies of Science, Directory of Members 1988 (co-edited with Edward J. Woodhouse) (Troy, N.Y.: Society for Social Studies of Science, 1988).
• Guide to the History of Science--1988 Supplement (Philadelphia: History of Science Society, November 1988), editor.
• "American Science Transformed," American Scientist 74 (1986) 466-485.
• "Incorrectness and Specific Doubts: Comment on Shapere," Science and Technology Studies 4, 1 (spring 1986) 10-14.
• "Organizational Notes: The Cambridge Meeting, November 14, 1984," Technology and Culture 26 (1985), 609-610.
• "Immigrants in American Chemistry," in Jarrell C. Jackman and Carla M. Borden, eds., The Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation, 1930-1945 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983), 189-203.
• "Organizational Notes: The Toronto Meeting, October 1619, 1980," Technology and Culture 22 (1981) 595-597.
• "The Sciences in America, circa 1880" (with Daniel J. Kevles and Jeffrey L. Sturchio), Science 209 (July-September 1980) 27-32. Reprinted in The Science Centennial Review, ed. by Philip H. Abelson and Ruth Kulstad (Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981).
• "Correction to Margaret A. Fay's Article," Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978) 675-676.
• "Further Evidence That Karl Marx Was Not the Recipient of Charles Darwin's Letter Dated 13 October 1880" (with Lewis S. Feuer), Annals of Science 33 (1976) 385-387.
• "On the Utility of Collating the Darwin Correspondence" (with Thaddeus J. Trenn), Annals of Science 33 (1976) 384-385.
• "Symposium on Quantitative Methods in History of Science" (with Robert F. Bud and Jeffrey L. Sturchio), 4S Newsletter 1, 4 (fall 1976) 10-12.
• "Historical Origins of the Sergeant Missile Powerplant," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Report JPL/HR3, August 1972.

Book Reviews have appeared in:

• Isis
• Physics Today
• Science

• Annual Sigma Xi Award Ceremony Lecturer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1986; SUNY Albany, 1987.
• Exxon Research Fellow, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985-1986.
• Voted one of the outstanding teachers of the year by the Rensselaer Provost Scholars, 1984.
• Outstanding Young Men of America, 1982.
• Who's Who in Technology Today, 1980.
• Honorable mention, Robert H. Goddard Historical Essay Competition, National Space Club, 1973.
• First place, Student Presentation Competition, Annual Meeting, Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1971.