death_place death_date birth_place field work_institutions birth_date article_title name
waltham , massachusetts 20 june 2003 new york city history of science harvard university 1 march 1914 i. bernard cohen
 i. bernard cohen
i. bernard cohen

ierome bernard cohen -lrb- 1 march 1914 -- 20 june 2003 -rrb- was the victor s. thomas professor of the history of science at harvard university and the author of many books on the history of science and , in particular , isaac newton .
cohen was the first american to receive a phd in history of science , was a harvard undergraduate -lrb- ' 37 -rrb- and then a phd student and protégé of george sarton who was the founder of `` isis '' and the history of science society .
cohen taught at harvard from 1942 until his death , and his tenure was marked by the development of harvard 's program in the history of science .
he went on to succeed sarton as editor of `` isis '' -lrb- 1952-1958 -rrb- and , later , president of the society -lrb- 1961-1962 -rrb- ; he was also a president of the international union of the history and philosophy of science .
cohen was an internationally recognized newton scholar ; his interests were encyclopedic , ranging from science and public policy to the history of computers , with several decades as a special consultant for history of computing with ibm .
among his hundreds of publications were such major books as `` franklin and newton '' -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , `` the birth of a new physics '' -lrb- 1959 -rrb- , `` the newtonian revolution '' -lrb- 1980 -rrb- , `` revolution in science '' -lrb- 1985 -rrb- , `` science and the founding fathers '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- , `` howard aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer '' -lrb- 1999 -rrb- , and his last book , `` the triumph of numbers '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , not to mention two jointly authored contributions , the variorum edition and new english translation of newton 's `` principia . ''
cohen 's april 1955 interview with albert einstein was the last einstein gave before his death , in that same month .
it was published that july in `` scientific american '' , which also published cohen 's 1984 essay on florence nightingale .
in 1974 he was awarded the sarton medal by the history of science society .
many consider cohen 's most important work to be his 1999 translation , with the late anne whitman , of newton 's `` principia '' .
this 974-page work took cohen over 15 years to fully translate .
among cohen 's students and protégés were the islamic philosopher seyyed hosein nasr , tufts university professor george e. smith , bucknell university professor martha verbrugge , and allen g. debus .
