On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
Robert K. Mertonis University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Foundation Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous honors and prizes for his work in both science and the humanities. His many books include the classicSocial Theory and Social Structure, the Sociology of Science, Sociological Ambivalence,andScience, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.