| LC control no. | n 79123995 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Westfall, Richard S. |
| Associated place | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Birth date | 19240422 |
| Death date | 19960821 |
| Place of birth | Fort Collins (Colo.) |
| Place of death | Indianapolis (Ind.) |
| Field of activity | Science--History |
| Affiliation | Yale University Indiana University |
| Profession or occupation | Historians of science College teachers |
| Found in | His Science and religion in seventeenth-century England. Register : Indiana Univ. academic, admin. and prof. appointees, 1986-87 (Westfall, Richard Samuel; Dist. prof. of hist. & philo. of sci., and prof. of hist.; Ph.D. 1955) New York times, 09/01/96: obituaries (Richard Westfall; dies at 72; wrote biography of Newton; d. 08/21/96 at Bloomington Hospital in Bloomington, Ind.) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 4-22-24) Wikipedia, viewed April 4, 2019 (Richard S. Westfall, American academic, biographer and historian of science; born 22 April 1924 at Fort Collins, Colorado; died 21 August 1996 in Bloomington, Ind.; Ph.D. from Yale University; taught at California Institute of Technology (1952-53), State University of Iowa (1953-57), Grinnell College (1957-63), and Indiana University from 1963 to 1989) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Westfall> New York Times obituary, Sept. 1, 1996 (Richard Samuel Westfall, authority on the scientific revolution) <http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~sobolpg/rsw1.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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