Historian of Science Elected to

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professor M. Norton Wise at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This year's election continues the Academy's tradition of honoring intellectual achievement, leadership, and creativity. The new class is composed of 183 Fellows, along with 26 Foreign Honorary Members from 14 nations.

New Fellows are nominated and elected by current members of the Academy. Members are divided into five broad classes: I) mathematics and physics; II) biological sciences; III) social sciences; IV) humanities and arts; and V) public affairs, business. This year's new Fellows will be welcomed as members at the annual Induction Ceremony, scheduled to be held at the Academy's headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 13, 2001.

Professor Wise's research extends over 18th-20th century history of physical science. He has concentrated on the role of technologies as resources for explanation in various periods: compensating balances in the French Enlightenment, working engines in industrializing Britain, and statistically defined entities in turn-of-the-century Germany. Other work concerns English gardens in Berlin, the gendering of time, and, currently, a book on Bourgeois Berlin and Laboratory Science.

For further information about the 2001Fellows, please see the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website at: http://www.amacad.org/news/new2001.htm

(posted 5/29/01)