Roger Hahn

Professor of the Graduate School

Contact

Office: 2314 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (510) 642-5199
Email: rhahn@berkeley.edu

Education

Horace Mann-Lincoln School, New York, Diploma, 1949
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., B.A., 1953
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., M.A.T., 1954
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Certificate, 1955
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Ph.D., 1962

Selected Publications

"Louis XIV and Science Policy," Sun King: The Ascendancy of French Culture During the Reign of Louis XIV (1992).

"La Faculté de Médicine de Paris: Un Aimant jusqu'ŕ la Moitié du XIXe Sičcle," L'Acte de Naissance de la Médecine Moderne (1995)

"A Scientist Responds to his Skeptical Crisis: Laplace's Philosophy of Science," The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 (1998)

"L'idee d'Analyse chez Laplace et les Idéologues," Theoria (in press)

"Laplace en Normandie" (in press)

"The Ideological and Institutional Difficulties of a Jesuit Scientist in Paris," R. J. Boscovich, Vita e Attivitŕ Scientifica, (1993).

"Les Carričres de Fourcroy et Lacepčde," Le Muséum au Premier Sičde de son Histoire (1997)

"Berkeley's History of Science Dinner Club: A Chronicle of Fifty Years of Activity," Isis (1999)

"Genčve Carrefour de la Science au XVIIIe Sičcle," Colloque de Saussure (in press)