John Servos
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}}John William Servos (b. 1951Library of Congress catalog page for John W. Servos) is an American professor and historian of science. His research centers on the historical development of science as a discourse and in the form of institutions and on how science has situated itself historically in the culture at large.{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=John+Servos&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C44&as_sdtp= |title=John Servos |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}
Servos is the Anson D. Morse Professor of History at Amherst College, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past President (2002–2003) of the History of Science Society.{{cite web|url=https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/jwservos |title=Servos, John W. – Amherst College|work=Amherst College|accessdate=2008-10-20}}
His book, Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling, received the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award for best book in the history of science in 1991.
He received his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972, his and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1979.
Selected works
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- {{cite journal|doi=10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.175|title=The Knowledge Corporation: A. A. Noyes and Chemistry at Cal-Tech, 1915–1930|year=1976|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|journal=Ambix|volume=23|issue=3|pages=175–186}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/27757528|jstor=27757528|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|title=To Explore the Borderland: The Foundation of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington|journal=Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences|year=1983|volume=14|issue=1|pages=147–185}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1021/bk-1984-0228.ch001|chapter=The Intellectual Basis of Specialization|title=Chemistry and Modern Society|series=ACS Symposium Series|year=1984|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|volume=228|pages=1–19|isbn=9780841207950}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/368642|title=History of Chemistry|year=1985|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Osiris|volume=1|pages=132–146|s2cid=143902505}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/354268|title=Mathematics and the Physical Sciences in America, 1880-1930|year=1986|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Isis|volume=77|issue=4|pages=611–629|s2cid=144163945}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3106301|jstor=3106301|title=Changing Partners: The Mellon Institute, Private Industry, and the Federal Patron|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Technology and Culture|year=1994|volume=35|issue=2|pages=221–257|s2cid=111527532 }}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3107096|jstor=3107096|title=Engineers, Businessmen, and the Academy: The Beginnings of Sponsored Research at the University of Michigan|last1=Servos|first1=John W.|author-mask=2|journal=Technology and Culture|year=1996|volume=37|issue=4|pages=721–762|s2cid=113119790 }}
= Books =
- Servos, John W., [https://books.google.com/books?id=1UZjU2WfLAoC Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America], Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.{{cite journal|title=Review of Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America by John W. Servos|author=Friedel, Robert|journal=Science|date=10 May 1991|volume= 252|issue=5007|pages=863–864|doi=10.1126/science.252.5007.863|pmid=17744266 |s2cid=38252208 }} [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.252.5007.864.a p. 864] {{ISBN|0-691-08566-8}}
- Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Lees, Lynn Hollen; Servos, John W., Global society : the world since 1900, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. {{ISBN|0-618-01850-6}}
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