Ronald L. Numbers was the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine t the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for thirty-eighth years, until his retirement in 2013. He received his BA in Mathematics and Physics from the Southern Missionary College in 1963, his MA in History from Florida State University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in History of Science in 1969. With David Lindberg, he is the editor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He has written or co-edited more than ten books, many of which have been translated in Korean, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Greek. From 1989 to 1993 he was editor of Isis and in 2008, he was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society for "a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar".
Ronald L. Numbers was the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine t the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for thirty-eighth years, until his retirement in 2013. He received his BA in Mathematics and Physics from the Southern Missionary College in 1963, his MA in History from Florida State University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in History of Science in 1969. With David Lindberg, he is the editor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He has written or co-edited more than ten books, many of which have been translated in Korean, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Greek. From 1989 to 1993 he was editor of Isis and in 2008, he was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society for "a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar".
