John Servos

{{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = | death_date = | discipline = History of science | education = {{Plain list| * Columbia University (BA) * Johns Hopkins University (PhD) }} | image = | workplaces = {{Plain list| * Amherst College }} | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = | awards = }}'''John William Servos''' (b. 1951<ref>Library of Congress catalog page for John W. Servos</ref>) is an American professor and historian of science. His research centers on the historical development of science as a discourse and in the form of institutions and on how science has situated itself historically in the culture at large.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=John+Servos&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C44&as_sdtp= |title=John Servos |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref>

Servos is the Anson D. Morse Professor of History at Amherst College, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past President (2002–2003) of the History of Science Society.<ref name="Servos">{{cite web|url=https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/jwservos |title=Servos, John W. – Amherst College|work=Amherst College|accessdate=2008-10-20}}</ref>

His book, ''Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling'', received the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award for best book in the history of science in 1991.<ref name="Servos"/> He received his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972, his and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1979.<ref name="Servos"/>

== Selected works == === Articles === * {{cite journal|doi=10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.175|title=The Knowledge Corporation: A. A. Noyes and Chemistry at Cal-Tech(sic), 1915–1930|year=1976|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|journal=Ambix|volume=23|issue=3|pages=175–186}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/27757528|jstor=27757528|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|title=To Explore the Borderland: The Foundation of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington|journal=Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences|year=1983|volume=14|issue=1|pages=147–185}} * {{cite book|doi=10.1021/bk-1984-0228.ch001|chapter=The Intellectual Basis of Specialization|title=Chemistry and Modern Society|series=ACS Symposium Series|year=1984|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|volume=228|pages=1–19|isbn=9780841207950}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/368642|title=History of Chemistry|year=1985|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Osiris|volume=1|pages=132–146|s2cid=143902505}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/354268|title=Mathematics and the Physical Sciences in America, 1880-1930|year=1986|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Isis|volume=77|issue=4|pages=611–629|s2cid=144163945}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3106301|jstor=3106301|title=Changing Partners: The Mellon Institute, Private Industry, and the Federal Patron|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Technology and Culture|year=1994|volume=35|issue=2|pages=221–257|s2cid=111527532 }} * {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3107096|jstor=3107096|title=Engineers, Businessmen, and the Academy: The Beginnings of Sponsored Research at the University of Michigan|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Technology and Culture|year=1996|volume=37|issue=4|pages=721–762|s2cid=113119790 }}

=== Books === * Servos, John W., [https://books.google.com/books?id=1UZjU2WfLAoC ''Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America''], Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America'' by John W. Servos|author=Friedel, Robert|journal=Science|date=10 May 1991|volume= 252|issue=5007|pages=863–864|doi=10.1126/science.252.5007.863|pmid=17744266 |s2cid=38252208 }} [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.252.5007.864.a p. 864]</ref> {{ISBN|0-691-08566-8}} * Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Lees, Lynn Hollen; Servos, John W., ''Global society : the world since 1900'', Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. {{ISBN|0-618-01850-6}}

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