Charles Coulston Gillispie

Professor Charles Coulston Gillispie was the former Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University before his death in October, 2015. Professor Gillispie attended Wesleyan University for a B.A. in chemistry and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1949 for history. He established the Program in the History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s and also served as President for the History of Science Society from 1965-66. His research focused on the history of science, specifically in France during the eighteenth century. Professor Gillispie received honorable recognition for his research through awards such as the George Sarton Medal, Dartmouth Medal, Balzan Prize, Pfizer Award, and becoming an honorary member of the Princeton Class of 1960. Among his many books, he was editor-in-chief of "The Dictionary of Scientific Biography," which contained many writings centered on science and mathematics from numerous time periods.