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...Cohen, who was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, “came to Harvard at a critical time…when the natural science courses wanted to use a case study approach which intimately involved the history of science,” said Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich...
...1960s, the Committee on Higher Degrees in History of Science and Learning, established four decades earlier by Cohen’s mentor Georges Sarton, became the History of Science department. Cohen was the department’s first chair...
Born in 1914 in New York City, Cohen graduated high school at the early...
...great showman,” said Gingerich, who served as a teaching fellow for Cohen. “His particular mix of demonstrations and the way he exuded authority in his teaching was very electrifying to lots and lots of students...
Mendelsohn recalled a class demonstration in which Cohen would send a brass ball on a wire swinging between two teaching fellows, showing the periodicity of a pendulum...