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HENRY E. LOWOOD 20 May 2001
Stanford, CA 94305-6004 San Bruno CA 94066 Tel: (650) 723-4602; fax: (650) 725-1068 (650) 871-9721 EMAIL: lowood@stanford.edu Education: Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1987 M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1983 M.A. in History, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1977 A.B., Univ. of California, Riverside, 1975, summa cum laude
1990¾ Curator for Germanic Collections, Stanford University 1990¾ Lecturer, Department of German Studies, Stanford University 1985¾ Lecturer, History and Philosophy of Science Program Stanford University 1985— Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies Program, Stanford University 1983¾ Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections 1996-2001 Head, Humanities and Area Studies Group, Stanford Univ. Libraries 1983-90 Head Librarian, Physics Library, Stanford University 1989 Senior Fellow, Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, Department of the History of Science, The University of Oklahoma 1987 Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University 1981-84 Research Associate (NIH Grant LM-03424, "Medical and Scientific Books in Medieval Libraries, P.I.: Dr. Karen Reeds) 1982-83 Acting Instructor, History Department, University of California, Berkeley 1981-83 Bibliographic Assistant to the Director for Collection Development, Stanford University 1980-81 Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of California, Berkeley 1980-81 Rare Books Specialist, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University 1978-80 DAAD Research Fellow, Universität Bonn and Herzog-August-Bibliothek, West Germany 1976-78 Bibliographer II, Step IV (Research Assistant), Office for the History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley 1976-77 Grader, History Department, University of California, Berkeley 1975 Research Assistant, History Department, University of California, Riverside
2000-2002 Stanford Humanities Laboratory grant for: How They Got Game: History & Culture of Interactive Simulations and Video Games 1989 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the History of Science, University of Oklahoma 1987 David C. Weber Research Grant, Stanford University Libraries 1980 Herzog-August-Bibliothek Summer Stipend, Wolfenbüttel 1978-80 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Fellowship, Bonn 1975 DAAD Goethe Institut Summer Fellowship, Grafing 1975-76 UC Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 1975 German National Honors Society 1975 Phi Beta Kappa & Valedictorian, University of California, Riverside 1975 Humanities Man of the Year, University of California, Riverside 1975 Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Book Collecting Prize 1971-75 UC Regents' Scholarship 1971-72 UCLA Alumni Honors Scholarship 1971 National Science Foundation Scholar
"Exhibiting GDR Culture: Politics and Practice in the Display of Literary and Historical Archives" "Science & High Technology in Silicon Valley" "Methods and Materials for German Studies" "From Gutenberg to Volkswagen: Technology & Culture in Germany" "The Art, Business, and Technology of Science Publishing, 1500-Present" "The Scientific Revolution" "Science in the Enlightenment" "Kepler and Einstein" (all Stanford) "Literature of the Sciences" (San Jose State University) "The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions" (UC Berkeley) "Physics in the 20th Century" (Grader, UC Berkeley) Publications: "Electronic Game," submitted to Encyclopedia Britannica. With side-bars on "Zork," "Pac-Man," "The Legend of Zelda," and "DOOM." In press. "Computer and Video Games" and "Computers—Personal," submitted to: Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology, ed. Colin Hempstead. (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003?) “Selvicoltura e agricoltura,” in: Storia della scienza, v. 5, Cap. 17. (Rome: Istituto della encyclopedia Italiana). In press. “Patriotic and Economic Societies,” submitted to The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, J. L. Heilbron, ed. (Oxford Univ. Press). In press. “Journal” and “Printing House,” submitted to The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, J. L. Heilbron, ed. (Oxford Univ. Press). In press. “Forestry” and “National Parks and Nature Reserves,” submitted to The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, J. L. Heilbron, ed. (Oxford Univ. Press). In press. "Introduction," Ronald Salter, Johannes Lebek: The Artist as a Witness of His Time. (Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2002): 1-2. “Archives and Online Sources,” in: Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker, eds., From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002): 207-14. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1999). (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. [Separate 156 p. supp. issue of Technology & Culture 43 (2002)] “The Hard Work of Software History,” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 2, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 141-61. “Preface,” (with Roberto G. Trujillo) in: The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher. Ed. Daniel Stolzenberg. (Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2001): ix-xi. "Frederick Emmons Terman (1900-1982)," in: The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. Marc Rothenberg (New Yor and London: Garland, 2001): 553-55. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1998). (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. [Separate 202 p. supp. issue of Technology & Culture 41 (2000)] “Noyce, Robert Norton,” in: Encyclopedia of Computer Science, eds. Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, and David Hemmendinger. 4th ed. (New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 2000): 1250-52. “Magisterium Naturae et Artis,” (with William McPheron), Imprint 19 (Spring/Summer 2000): 17-19. "The Scientific Book as a Cultural and Bibliographical Object," (with Robin Rider), in: Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries, and Collector: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science. 4th ed. Ed. Andrew Hunter. (Aldershot, Eng., and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000): 1-25. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1996-1997). (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. [Separate 251 p. issue of Technology & Culture 40 (1999)] “The Stanford and the Silicon Valley Archives Project,” in: Reconstructing the Heart of the University. Imprint. Stanford: Associates of the Stanford Univ. Libraries, 1999, 107-16 “Introduction,” The Barchas Collection at Stanford University: A Catalogue of the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas Collection in the History of Science and Ideas. (Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1999): xix-xxvii. "William Frederick Durand (5 March 1859 - 9 August 1958)," in: American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999): vol. 7, 140-41. "Rudolf Kompfner (16 May 1909 - 3 December 1977) ," in: American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999): vol. 12, 878-79. "Robert Norton Noyce (12 Dec. 1927-3 June 1990," in: : American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999): vol. 16, 541-43. "David Locke Webster (6 Nov. 1888-17 Dec. 1976)," in: : American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999): vol. 22, 868-69. “Bruce Deal: An Oral History Interview (1988-1996).” Ed. Ross Bassett. “Charles Babbage Foundation Software Task Force. Final Report.” (Nov. 1998). (Chair: George Glaser. Committee: George Glaser, William T. Coleman, III, Paul N. Edwards, Henry Lowood, Keith Uncapher.
“Douglas Engelbart: An Oral History Interview (1986-1987).” Ed. Thierry Bardini. "William Henry Gates (1955- )," in: Collier's Encyclopedia (New York: Collier, 1997?)
"The New World and the European Catalog of Nature," in: America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, ed. Karen O. Kupperman. (Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 1995): 295-323. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1992). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. [Separate 232 p. issue of Technology & Culture 35 (1994)] "Workshop on Bibliographic Control of Sources for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: New Directions and Opportunities, Trento, Italy, 23-25 September 1992," Nuncius (1994): 234-38. "Literary Technology and Typographic Culture: The Instrument of Print in Early Modern Science," (with Robin Rider) Perspectives in Science 2 (1994): 1-37. "History of Science, Technology and Medicine," in: The Best in Science, Technology, and Medicine, ed. Carl Mitcham and William F. Williams. The Reader's Advisor, 14th ed.; 5. (New Providence, N.J.: Bowker, 1994): 23-58. "From Gutenberg to Volkswagen: Technology & Culture" (published syllabus), in: A Sourcebook of German Studies Courses, ed. Scott Benham. (Davidson:Davidson College, 1994): 88-92.
"Wissenschaft im Selbstverlag," in: Der Druck des Wissens: Geschichte und Medium der wissenschaftlichen Publikation, ed. Michael Cahn (Berlin: Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1991): 24-25. "Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1989)," Technology & Culture 32 (1991): 659-835. "The Calculating Forester: Quantification, Cameral Science, and the Emergence of Scientific Forestry Management in Germany," in: Tore Frängsmyr, J. L. Heilbron, and Robin E. Rider, eds., The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 315-42. "International Perspectives on the Role of Government in the Development of High-Technology Industry (Commentary)," Charles Babbage Institute Newsletter 12 (Winter 1990), 3, 7-9. "Sources on the History of Computing: Stanford University and the Silicon Valley," in: James W. Cortada, ed., Archives of Data-Processing History: A Guide to Major U.S. Collections (New York: Greenwood, 1990), 141-59. "Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1988)," Technology & Culture 31 (1990), 561-723.
"Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815," Ph.D. Diss., UC Berkeley, 1987. Frederick E. Brasch and the History of Science (Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1987) "Selected Bibliography," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 17 (1986), 371-77; 18 (1987), 183-190, etc. (In every issue through 1990.) The Barchas Collection: the Making of Modern Science (Stanford, 1985). Guide to Sources in Northern California for History of Science and Technology (Berkeley, Calif.: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 1985). [with Robin E. Rider] "Galileo and Kepler: the Bond of Books," Imprint 11:2 (1985), 15-20. [Essay review of Karl Hufbauer's The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795)], Eighteenth-century Studies, 18 (1984), 108-12. "Patriotism and Progress: The Role of the German Patriotic and Economic Societies in the Promotion of Science and Technology," Transactions of the Sixth International Congress on the Enlightenment ... Brussels July 1983 (Oxford, 1983), 394-96. Ernest Rutherford. A Bibliography of His Non-technical Writings (Berkeley, 1979) William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg. A Bibliography of Their Non-technical Writings (Berkeley, 1978) Max Planck. A Bibliography of His Non-technical Writings (Berkeley, 1977) "Albert Einstein: the Remaking of a Theoretical Physicist," Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.), 3 (1974). Book reviews for Isis, Annals of the History of Science, Annals of the History of Computing, Choice, Technology and Culture, The Journal of Military History, American Historical Review, Air Power History, College & Research Libraries, German Studies Review ... Game reviews for Grenadier, The Wargamer, Paper Wars, Berg’s Review of Games, Zone of Control, and other game publications. Includes review of “Hitler’s Last Gamble,” Wargamer 2.17 (1989), nominated for Charles S. Robert award as Best Game Review or Analysis Article for 1989. Book review editor, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 1986-1990. Founding editor, H-War discussion list. Selection of presented and invited Papers:
· "The RLIN History of Science and Technology File," Workshop on Bibliographic Tools in the History of Science, Commission on Bibliography and Documentation, Division of History of Science, International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Liège, 25 Sept. 1995 · "The National Software Archives," Software Publishers' Association, San Francisco, 13 & 14 March 1994. · "Jewels and Junk: Assessing Your Science Collections," Science & Engineering Librarians, a CARL Interest Group, San Francisco, 8 January 1993 · "The Current Bibliography in the History of Technology: Past, Present, and Future," (Workshop on Bibliographic Control of Sources for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: New Directions and Opportunities, Trento, 23 September 1992) · "Patriotism, Science, and Improvement: Beekeeping and the Study of Bees in the German Enlightenment," History of Science Society, Madison, October 1991. · "Wer hat das naturwissenschaftliche Buch der frühen Neuzeit gemacht?" (Universität Konstanz, July 1991) · "The New World and Natural History." (Conference on the Discovery of America in European Consciousness, John Carter Brown Library, June 1991) · "The New Book of Nature: Communities and Control." (History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 1990) · "Literary Technology and Typographic Culture." (The University of Oklahoma Centennial Conference, Norman, September 1990) · "The New Book of Nature." (West Coast History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Morro Bay, March 1990) · "International Perspectives on the Role of Government in the Development of High Technology Industry: Commentary." (Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting, Sacramento, October 1989) · "Response: The Future of Science Libraries." (First Annual Symposium on Information Issues: The Future of the Print Culture, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, April 1989) · "Steeples of Excellence and Valley of Silicon: the Industrial Park and the University-Industry Connection at Stanford." (Joint Session on Science and Regional Development of the Society for the History of Technology and the History of Science Society, Raleigh, October 1987) · "The Computer Industry and the Academy: The History of Computing in the Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project." (Society of American Archivists, New York, September 1987) · "The Calculating Forester: Mathematics and Forestry in the Classical Age of German Forestry." (History of Science Society, Philadelphia, October 1986) · "Steps Toward Documenting the History of the Silicon Valley." (Society of American Archivists, Chicago, August 1986) "How Does Your Forest Grow? Forestry, Cameralism and Mathematics in the German Enlightenment." (17th International Congress of History of Science, Berkeley, August, 1985) · "Historians, High Technology and the Silicon Valley." (West Coast History of Science Society, Fall Meeting, Stanford, October 1984) · "Patriotism, Profit and the Promotion of Science and Technology in the German Enlightenment." (Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Brussels, July 1983) · "The Promotion of Science and Technology in the German Enlightenment: The Patriotic, Economic and Scientific Societies." (West Coast History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, Stanford, April 1981) · "Die Förderung der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik in der deutschen Aufklärung." (Herzog-August- Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, August 1980 Exhibits: "Hölderlin, Philosopher and Poet," Stanford University, April-June 1993 "Printing and the Book of Nature," (With Robin Rider.) The Bancroft Library, Feb.-May 1991 "From Nature's Simple Laws: Newton and the Principia, 1687-1987," Stanford University, Jan.-March 1987 "Starry Messengers: Comets in Science and Society," Stanford University, Jan.-March 1987 "The Barchas Collection: The Making of Modern Science," Stanford University, Jan.-March 1985
Society for the History of Technology (Bibliographer of the Society since 1987.) Society for Industrial Archaeology West Coast History of Science Society Society for Military History
Science and engineering at Stanford University & in the Silicon Valley Printing and publishing of science, esp. historical aspects Technology and culture in Germany, ca. 1750 to the present The Kameralwissenschaften and technological activity in Germany, esp. history of forestry Bibliography and archives in the history of science & technology Download 58.38 Kb. Share with your friends:
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