Lynn Townsend White
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican historian (1907-1987)
Lynn Townsend White Jr. was an American historian of technology and college president.
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Eugene OdumAlso won George Mercer Award
Lorraine DastonAlso won Pfizer Award
Derek J. de Solla PriceAlso won Leonardo da Vinci Medal
Meyer SchapiroAlso won Fellow of the Medieval Academy of AmericaJeffrey Burton RussellAlso won Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
I. Bernard CohenAlso won Pfizer AwardAbout this person
Lynn Townsend White Jr. was an American historian of technology and college president. He was an instructor in medieval history at Princeton University from 1933 to 1937, a professor at Stanford University from 1937 to 1943, president of Mills College, Oakland, California, from 1943 to 1958, and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1958 until 1987. He is best known for the controversial book Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) and for controversial articles on religion, technology, and ecology such as "Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered" and "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis". White helped to found the Society for the History of Technology and was its president from 1960 to 1962. He won the 1963 Pfizer Award for Medieval Technology and Social Change and the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1964.
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