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Robert P. Multhauf
American historian of science (1919-2004) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84
Robert P. Multhauf was an American historian of science, museum curator, director, scientific scholar, and author. He worked as a curator for the Smithsonian Institution 1954-1987, serving as head curator (1957-1966) and then director (1966-1970) of the Museum of History and Technology.
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He also served as editor of the History of Science Society's journal Isis for fifteen years 1964-1978 and the society's president 1979-1980, and he was president of the Society for the History of Technology 1969-1970 and awarded its Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1987.
