Roger Hahn

Professor of the Graduate School

Contact

Office: 2314 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Monday 2-4pm
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

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971)

"The Meaning of the Mechanistic Age," in The Boundaries of Humanity. Humans, Animals, Machines (1991)

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

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

Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827. A Determined Scientist (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2005)