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Seymour Mauskopf, History and Director, Focus Interdisc Prgms

Contact Info:

Office Location:	325 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2581
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

• HISTORY 89FCS.01, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS Synopsis

  Carr 125, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• HISTORY 157C.01, RISE MOD SCI: 20TH CENT Synopsis

  Carr 103, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

PhD	Princeton University	1966
AB	Cornell University	1960

Specialties:

Europe
North America
17th and 18th Centuries
19th and 20th Centuries
Science
Ecology

Research Interests:

Current projects: I am an "enthusiastic" pianist in both classical and show-tune/jazz repertoire.

My research interests in the history of science have been quite varied over the years; they include the history of chemistry and allied sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Crystals and Compounds, 1976), the history of chemical technology, focusing on munitions and explosives and the history of parapsychology and marginal science (The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research, with Michael R. McVaugh, 1980). I have edited two books reflective of these different interests: The Reception of Unconventional Science (1979) and Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (1993).

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. "Pellets, Pebbles and Prisms: Suiting Black Powder For Scaled-Up Guns in English Munitions, 1860-1880." Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology Vol. 2 (in press) (Accepted, 2006).
2. S. Mauskopf. ""A History of Chirality,"." Chiral Analysis  (Accepted, in press).
3. S. Mauskopf. ""Biogaphy of J.-L. Proust"." Encyclopaedia Britannica  (Accepted, in press).
4. S. Mauskopf. ""Biographies of Frederick Augustus Abel, Heinrich Debus, and Frederick Field." Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists  (Accepted, in press).
5. S. Mauskopf. ""Chemistry in the Arsenal: State Regulation and Scientific Methodology of Gunpowder in Eighteenth-Century England and France ,”." The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology (2005): 293-330.

I was the first Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemical Sciences and Technology (Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, and The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1988-1989). In spring, 2000, I was the Price Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia. In 1998, I received the Dexter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. I have held grants from the National Science Foundation and from the Hagley Museum.