Edward Grant
原名：
Edward Grant
Born：
(1926-04-06)April 6, 1926, Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Died：
June 21, 2020(2020-06-21) (aged 94)
Awards：
George Sarton Medal (1992)
Thesis：
The Mathematical Theory of Proportionality of Nicole Oresme (ca. 1320–1382) (1957)
Education：
City College of New York (AB, 1951), , University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA/PhD, 1957)
Discipline：
Medieval studies
Influences：
Pearl Kibre, , Pierre Duhem, , E. J. Dijksterhuis
Occupation：
Historian of medieval science
Institutions：
Indiana University (1959–)
Sub-discipline：
Medieval science, , Medieval mathematics
Doctoral advisor：
Marshall Clagett
个人简介
Edward Grant (April 6, 1926 – June 21, 2020) was an American historian of medieval science. He was a student of Pearl Kibre and Marshall Clagett, and a longtime collaborator with Clagett. He taught at Indiana University for over thirty years beginning in 1959 and co-founded its department of history and philosophy of science and medicine with Norwood Russell Hanson. His honors include the 1992 George Sarton Medal, for "a lifetime scholarly achievement" as a historian of science.
