John Colton Greene
American historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Colton Greene was an American historian of science. Biography His father was a professor at the University of South Dakota. John C. Greene grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota, where he graduated in 1934 from Vermillion High School. He graduated in 1938 with a B.A. from the University of South Dakota. In 1939 he graduated with an M.A. in American history from Harvard University and continued studying there for his Ph.D. until 1942 when his academic career was interrupted by WW II. From September 1942 to April 1946, he served in the U.S. Army, travelled to five continents, and attained the rank of captain. While stationed in Teheran, he, as a first lieutenant, met Ellen Wiemann , 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. The couple lived from 1948 to 1967 in various Midwestern university towns with one academic year 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 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, where he died in 2008.
John Colton Greene's Published Works
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- The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought (1981) (101)
- The Evolutionary Theories of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer [and Comments and Replies] (1974) (76)
- American Science in the Age of Jefferson (1984) (56)
- Science, Ideology, and World View: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas (1981) (55)
- Darwin as a social evolutionist (1977) (49)
- The interaction of science and world view in Sir Julian Huxley's evolutionary biology (1990) (33)
- The Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson (1978) (30)
- Thought disorder. (1967) (30)
- Darwin and the Modern World View (1961) (15)
- Some Early Speculations on the Origin of Human Races (1954) (15)
- History, humanity and evolution : essays for John C. Greene (1989) (15)
- The American Debate on the Negro's Place in Nature, 1780-1815 (1954) (13)
- The history of ideas revisited (1986) (11)
- From Aristotle to Darwin: Reflections on Ernst Mayr's interpretation in The Growth of Biological Thought (1992) (11)
- Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar (1999) (9)
- American Science Comes of Age, 1780–1820 (1968) (8)
- Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. (1992) (8)
- The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (2004) (7)
- Progress, science, and value: A biological dilemma (1991) (7)
- Science and the Public in the Age of Jefferson (1958) (7)
- Some Aspects of American Astronomy 1750-1815 (1954) (6)
- Science, philosophy, and metaphor in Ernst Mayr's writings (1994) (6)
- Reflections on the progress of Darwin studies (1975) (5)
- On the nature of the evolutionary process: The correspondence between Theodosius Dobzhansky and John C. Greene (1996) (5)
- Darwinism and moral purpose: darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior. (1988) (4)
- Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It. Loren Eiseley. (1959) (4)
- Lewis and Clark. Pioneering Naturalists. Paul Russell Cutright. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1969. xvi + 510 pp. + plates. $12.50 (1969) (2)
- Darwin and Religion (2012) (2)
- Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. (1988) (1)
- Book Review: Martin Fichman, An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace (2004) (1)
- The influence of religion in the politics of Newfoundland, 1850-1861. (1970) (1)
- Academy Project on the History of American Learned and Scientific Societies (1973) (1)
- Response:Historiographic Distinctions (1988) (1)
- Reflections on Ernst Mayr's This is Biology (1999) (1)
- The growing family of NIH institutes. (2001) (1)
- The plays of James Thomson, 1700-1748 : a critical edition in two volumes (1987) (1)
- Darwin and the modern world view : the Rockerll lectures, Rice University (1963) (0)
- Darwin and the modern world view / John C. Greene (1963) (0)
- Histographic Distinctions: Response (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Researches into the Physical History of Man James Cowles Prichard, George W. Stocking, Jr. (1975) (0)
- Book Review:Early American Science, Needs and Opportunities for Study Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. (1956) (0)
- American Science in the Age of Jackson. George H. Daniels. Columbia University Press, New York, 1968. xii + 282 pp. $7.95 (1968) (0)
- Remarks by Dr. John C. Greene on Receiving the John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award (1998) (0)
- Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society (1975) (0)
- Remarks on Receiving the Distinguished Service Award (1997) (0)
- Stephen K. Sanderson. Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. (Studies in Social Discontinuity.) Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell. 1990. Pp. xviii, 251 (1992) (0)
- Teaching the History of Science (1958) (0)
- CHARLOTTE M. PORTER, The Eagle's Nest. Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842, Alabama, University of Alabama Press 1986, 251 pp. illustrated. (1987) (0)
- The Plays of James Thomson. Percy G. Adams (1981) (0)
- Men of Science in America. Bernard Jaffe (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Just before Darwin; Robert Chambers and Vestiges Milton Millhauser (1960) (0)
- John William Knutson, 1907-1980. (1980) (0)
- John Banister and His Natural History of Virginia 1678–1692. By Joseph and Nesta Ewan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. xxx + 485 pp. Map, chart, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $15.00.) (1971) (0)
- Science in Nineteenth-Century America. A Documentary History. Nathan Reingold, Ed. xii + 339 pp., illus. Hill and Wang, New York, 1964; cloth, $5.95; paper, $2.45. Macmillan, London, 1966; 30 s (1968) (0)
- Evolution and Christians. Philip G. Fothergill (1963) (0)
- J. L. Heilbron;, James Bartholomew;, Jim Bennett;, Frederic L. Holmes;, Rachel Laudan;, Giuliano Pancaldi (Editors).The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. (Oxford Companion Series.) xxviii + 941 pp., illus., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. $110 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Peter J. Bowler. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. Pp. xi, 291. $25.00 (1984) (0)
- The switch to evolutionism. (1980) (0)
- News (1969) (0)
- The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes toward Race in America, 1815–59. By William Stanton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. x + 245 pp. Notes and index. $4.00.) (1960) (0)
- Moments of Discovery . vol. I, The Origins of Science . vol. II, The Development of Modern Science . George Schwartz and Philip W. Bishop, Eds. Basic Books, New York, 1958. 1005 pp. Illus. $15. (1959) (0)
- RESPONSE TO DCPA QUESTIONS ON FALLOUT (1997) (0)
- Memorandum from John C. Greene to Roland L. Peterson (1974) (0)
- Creation by Natural Law: Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis in American Thought. Ronald L. Numbers (1978) (0)
- Book Review:The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 Walter E. Houghton (1977) (0)
- Eloge: John Garrett Burke (12 August 1917-21 February 1989) (1990) (0)
- Silvio A. Bedini.Jefferson and Science. Preface by, Donald Fleming. (Monticello Monograph Series.) 126 pp., illus., bibl., index. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2002. (Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press.) $14.95 (paper). (2004) (0)
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