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Stephen Brush

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American physicist

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Stephen George Brush is an American historian of science known particularly for his work on statistical mechanics and geophysics. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1968 to 2007.

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2009Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
2004Mary C. Rabbitt History And Philosophy of Geology Award
2001Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize
1977Pfizer Award
1955Rhodes Scholarship
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Stephen George Brush is an American historian of science known particularly for his work on statistical mechanics and geophysics. He was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1968 to 2007. His research resulted in hundreds of journal articles and over a dozen books, one book of which, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat, won the 1977 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1977) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1981). He founded the American Physical Society's History of Physics Newsletter and served as president of the History of Science Society 1990-1991.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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living
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Born 1935 · age 91
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7 languages

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