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George Sarton is the "father" of the history of science, having established the history of science as a discipline in its own right. His Introduction to the History of Science is a mammoth three-volume, 4,236-page work in which Sarton reviewed and cataloged the scientific and cultural contributions of every civilization from antiquity through the fourteenth century. He was the author of 15 other books and over 300 articles on this subject1.
He received his PhD in mathematics at the University of Ghent in 1911. Though he emigrated to England after World War I broke out, he came to the United States in 1915, where he would live for the rest of his life. He became a lecturer at Harvard University in 1920 and a professor of the history of science from 1940-1951.
Sarton intended to complete an exhaustive nine volume history of science—which, during the preparation of the second volume, induced him to learn Arabic and travel around the Middle East inspecting original manuscripts—but at the time of his death only the first three volumes had been completed.
In honor of Sarton's achievements, the History of Science Society created the award known as the George Sarton Medal. It is the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955 to an outstanding historian of science selected from the international scholarly community. The medal honors a scholar for lifetime scholarly achievement.
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- Sarton, George. "The New Humanism," Isis, 6 (1924): 9-24.
- Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science (3 v. in 5), Carnegie institution of Washington Publication no. 376. Baltimore, 1927-1948.
- George Sarton, The Incubation of Western Culture in the Middle East, A George C. Keiser Foundation Lecture, March 29 1950, Washington DC, 1951
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