A. Hunter Dupree

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Anderson Hunter Dupree (29 January 1921 – 30 November 2019) was an American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States.^[1] He died in November 2019 at the age of 98.^[2]

Early education

The son of a lawyer, George W. Dupree, and his wife, Sarah Hunter, he attended

At the end of World War II, Dupree married Marguerite Louise (Betty) Arnold (c. 1918-May 27, 2014) of Seattle on July 18, 1946, having two children including the historian Marguerite Dupree and the harpsichord maker Anderson H. Dupree.

Hunter Dupree entered Harvard University, where he completed his master's degree in 1947, and his Ph.D. in 1952, having written his doctoral dissertation on Asa Gray, titled "Asa Gray: The Development of a Statesman of Science, 1810–1848".^[4] Marguerite earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard and also taught at universities.^[5]

Academic career

In 1950, Dupree took up his first academic position as assistant professor of history at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, where he remained until 1952, when he was appointed a research fellow at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. He served two appointments there in 1952–54 and 1955–56. In addition, he served as project director on grants at the National Science Foundation, 1953-55.^[6]

In 1956, the University of California, Berkeley appointed Dupree as visiting assistant professor of history, then promoted to associate professor in 1958, and professor of history in 1961. He served additionally as assistant to the chancellor in 1960–62, and director of the Bancroft Library in 1965–66. In addition, Dupree was a consultant to the committee on science and public policy at the National Academy of Sciences in 1963–64. He remained at Berkeley until 1968.

Despite being a competent

• In 1976, he received the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences and was selected as a Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, National Humanities Center in 1978-79.^[10]
• In 1990, he was awarded the George Sarton Medal.

Published works

• 'Some Letters from Charles Darwin to Jeffries Wyman', Isis Vol.42,Part 2., No.128. (June, 1951), pp. 104–110.

• 'Thomas Nuttall's Controversy With Asa Gray', Rhodora, Vol. 54, (1952), pp. 293–303.

• 'Science vs. the Military: Dr. James Morrow and the Perry Expedition', The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 22, no. 1, (1953), pp. 29–37.

• 'Jeffries Wyman's views on evolution', 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 manuscripts the historian wants saved", Isis, vol. 53 (1962), pp. 63–66.

• Darwiniana; essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray; edited A. Hunter Dupree. (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

• Sir Joseph Banks and the origins of science policy. James Ford Bell Lecture; no. 22. (1984).

Manuscript collections

• Oberlin College Library RG 30/417: A. Hunter Dupree Family Papers, 1830-2002
• Brown University Library: Anderson Hunter Dupree Papers.

References