 Ronald NumbersRonald L. Numbers is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of
Science and Medicine and chair of the Department of the History of Medicine at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for over a
quarter-century. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including,
most recently, The Creationists (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), Darwinism
Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998), and Disseminating
Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge
University Press, 1999), coedited with John Stenhouse. For five years
(1989-1993) he edited Isis, the flagship journal of the history of science. He
is writing a history of science in America (for Cambridge University Press),
editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and religion
for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and coediting, with David Lindberg, the
eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He is a past president of the
American Society of Church History and the current president of the History of
Science Society. A former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the International Academy
of the History of Science.
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