Alma mater Yale University, 1968 | Name Noel Swerdlow Awards MacArthur Fellowship Education Yale University | |
Books Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus, The Babylonian Theory of the Planets Fields History of science, History of astronomy | ||
Institutions University of Chicago Residence United States of America Notable awards MacArthur Fellowship | ||
Noel Mark Swerdlow (born 1941) is a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is currently a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Career
Swerdlow specializes in the history of exact sciences, astronomy in particular, from antiquity through the 17th century.
In 1988 Swerdlow received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, often referred to as the "genius grant." In the same year he published the book The Babylonian Theory of the Planets (Princeton University Press).
In 1988 he was also elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, dating to 1743.
References
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