Gerald L. Geison
Gerald Lynn Geison (March 26, 1943 – July 3, 2001) was an American historian who died at 58. Career. Gerald L. Geison went on to earn a doctorate in Yale University's "Department of the History of Science and Medicine" in 1970 and then joined the Princeton faculty, where he was a professor in the history department and the "Program in History of Science". "He wrote two books, "The Private Science of Louis Pasteur" (1995) and "Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society" (1978), and edited four more. In addition , he wrote about 40 scholarly essays and book reviews and contributed 20 articles to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. At Princeton, Geison served as director of the Program in History of Science from 1980 to 1986 and was the program's director of graduate studies for many years. He was associate dean of the college from 1977 to 1979, master of the Graduate College from 1982 to 1985, and secretary of the Committee on the Course of Study from 1977 to 1979. He received many honors and invitations to lecture on his work. The American Association for the History of  Medicine awarded its 1996 William H. Welch Medal to Geison's book on Pasteur. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, a visiting historical scholar at the National Library of Medicine and a visiting senior Wellcome fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. He received a Howard Foundation fellowship in 1979-80. Early in his academic career, Geison was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and a research fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Geison was a member of the  editorial board of the "Journal of the History of Medicine" (1996), a contributing editor of "Osiris" (1984–1991), and advisory editor of "Isis" (1979–82). He was a member of the "History of Science Society" and served on several society committees. He also served as a referee and consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Physiological Society, and the university presses of California, Cambridge, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford and Princeton."