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When he retires from his full-time teaching position at the end of this academic year, Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn will have spent nearly 50 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, making his mark as one of a group of scholars who studied the relationship between science and society. It took him a far shorter amount of time—the twenty or so years of life that led up to his study at Antioch College, where he joint concentrated in biology and history—for Mendelsohn to realize that scientific advances...
...According to Professor of the History of Science Anne Harrington ’82, Mendelsohn was “one of the founders of the social history of science...
...Matthew J. Stern ’08-’09, another concentrator, who took Mendelsohn’s junior seminar on the atomic bomb, stressed that while Mendelsohn could teach the “nuts and bolts” of scientific progress, he could also make his students “really understand what it was like to be a scientist” in whatever period he dealt with...
...According to Stern, Mendelsohn taught about “things that he knew because he didn’t just read about them, but because he lived them...
...whole of the deaning office has been weakened,” Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has seen eight different deans in his time at Harvard, said recently. “I think parts of it run quite well. Other parts need a new leader to come along and provide a philosophy of what a deanship will...