John Colton Greene
John Colton Greene (March 5, 1917,
Indianapolis, Indiana – November 12, 2008, Pacific Grove, California
) was an American historian of science.
Biography
His father was a professor at the
Teheran, he, as a first lieutenant, met Ellen Wiemann (1917–1998), a Red Cross nurse from Larchmont, New York. They married in Cairo, Egypt in November 1945. In early 1946 they returned to the United States to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied at Harvard until 1948. Although no longer domiciled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he eventually completed the work for his Harvard Ph.D. in history in 1952.[3] The couple lived from 1948 to 1967 in various Midwestern university towns with one academic year (1962–1963) in Berkeley, California. During the years from 1948 to 1967, they raised three children, Ruth, Ned, and John David. John C. Greene taught from 1948 to 1952 as an instructor at the University of Chicago, from 1952 to 1956 as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from 1956 to 1962 as an associate (and then full) professor at Iowa State University, from 1962 to 1963 as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1963 to 1967 as a full professor at the University of Kansas. At the University of Connecticut, he was a full professor from 1967 until 1987, when he retired as professor emeritus. After his wife Ellen died in 1998, he moved from Storrs, Connecticut, to California,[2]
where he died in 2008.
Greene wrote several monographs and numerous essays and book reviews. His work deals with "early American science, the rise and development of evolutionary ideas in Western thought, and the historical relations of science, religion, and world view."[2]
For the academic year 1966–1967, Greene was a Guggenheim Fellow.National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. He was from 1975 to 1977 the president of the History of Science Society. In 1983 he was elected a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society/[5] In 1989 a collection of essays was dedicated to him.[6] In 2002 he received the George Sarton Medal.
Selected publications
Articles
- Greene, John C. (1954). "Some Aspects of American Astronomy 1750-1815". Isis. 45 (4): 339–358. S2CID 145808158.
- —— (1958). "Science and the Public in the Age of Jefferson". Isis. 49 (155): 13–25. S2CID 397032.
- —— (1959). "Darwin and Religion". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 103 (5): 716–725. JSTOR 985427.
- —— (1968). "American Science Comes of Age, 1780-1820". The Journal of American History. 55 (1): 22–41. JSTOR 1894249.
- —— (1975). "Reflections on the Progress of Darwin Studies". Journal of the History of Biology. 8 (2): 243–273. PMID 11609895.
- ——; Mayr, E. (1992). "From Aristotle to Darwin: Reflections on Ernst Mayr's Interpretation in "The Growth of Biological Thought"". Journal of the History of Biology. 25 (2): 257–284. S2CID 32180546.
- —— (1990). "The Interaction of Science and World View in Sir Julian Huxley's Evolutionary Biology". Journal of the History of Biology. 23 (1): 39–55. S2CID 38002182.
- —— (1999). "Reflections on Ernst Mayr's This is Biology". Biology & Philosophy. 14: 103–116. S2CID 169058093.
- Offer, John, ed. (2000). "Chapter 9. Biology and social theory in the nineteenth century: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer by J. C. Greene". Herbert Spencer: Critical assessments of leading sociologists. Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis. pp. 203–226. ISBN 9780415181853.
Books
- The Death of Adam: Evolution and its impact on western thought. Iowa State University Press. 1959. ISBN 9780813803906.[7]
- Darwin and the Modern World View. Louisiana State University Press. 1961. ASIN B0007DL5QS.[8]
- Greene, John C. (February 1973). 1973 pbk edition. LSU Press. ISBN 0-8071-0062-5.
- Greene, John C. (February 1973). 1973 pbk edition. LSU Press.
- with John G. Burke, The Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson. Philadelphia: American Philosophicl Society. 1978. ISBN 0871696843.[9]
- Science, ideology, and world view: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas. University of California Press. 1981.
- American Science in the Age of Jefferson. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. 1984.
- Debating Darwin: adventures of a scholar. Claremont, California: Regina Books. 1999.
- A scholar goes to war. Claremont, California: Paige Press. 2005. LCCN 2006271635.
References
- ^ Kreitzer, Stewart Edward (2013). World views in collision: The dialogue between John Greene and Ernst Mayr (1959-2005) (PDF). University of Florida. p. 144; doctoral dissertation
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ a b c "John C. Greene Papers at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center". Archives & Special Collections, UConn Library, University of Connecticut (uconn.edu).
- ^ "Obituary. Greene, Ellen W." Hartford Courant. January 29, 1998.
- ^ "John C. Greene". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "John C. Greene". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
- ISBN 9780521524780.
- S2CID 164004750.
- doi:10.1086/352327.
- doi:10.1086/353060. p. 444
- S2CID 145570343.
- .
- JSTOR 1903759.
- ^ "Debating Darwin: adventures of a scholar / John C. Greene". Library Catalogue, Wellcome Collection. 1999.
- ^ Durant, John (July 11, 1999). "Review of Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar by John C. Greene". The New York Times. p. 28, Section 7.