Sara J. Schechner (born 1957) is an American historian of science, the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University.[1]
Life
Schechner earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and Science with Physics from Harvard-Radcliffe of Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1979.[2] She then studied History and Philosophy of Science at the Emmanuel College of the Cambridge University and finished it with a Master of Philosophy in 1981.[2] She completed her artium magister (Master of Arts) on the History of Science at the Harvard University in 1982.[2] In 1988, she finalized her PhD on the History of Science at the Harvard University.[2]
Afterwards, Schechner was chief curator at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.[1] She also curated exhibits for the Smithsonian Institution, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Physical Society.[1] In 2000, she returned to Harvard University as the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.[1] She is also a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University.[1]
Selected publications
- Schechner, Sara (1997). Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691011508. OCLC 36066082.[3]
- Morrison-Low, A.D.; Schechner, Sara J.; Brenni, Paolo, eds. (2016). How scientific instruments have changed hands. Leiden; Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004324923. LCCN 2016033199.
- Schechner, Sara (2019). Time of our lives : sundials of the Adler Planetarium. Chicago, Illinois: Adler Planetarium. ISBN 9780578497105.
Awards
- 2020: Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[4]
- 2019: Paul Bunge Prize of the Society of German Chemists[5]
- 2018: LeRoy E. Doggett Prize, American Astronomical Society[2]
- 2018: Second Place, Telescopes-Mechanical/Other, Stellafane Convention, for a quilt, “This is Stellafane!” 2018.[2]
- 2014: Great Exhibitions Prize for Body of Knowledge:A History of Anatomy (in 3 Parts), British Society for the History of Science[2]
- 2014: Dean's Impact Award, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University[2]
- 2010: The Paul and Irene Hollister Lecturer on Glass, 2010.[2]
- 2009: First Place, Telescopes-Mechanical/Special, Stellafane Convention, for a historical quilt,“The Great 26-Inch Telescope at Foggy Bottom,”[2]
- 2008: Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize.[2]
- 2007: First Place, International Design Awards 2007, for Time, Life, & Matter[2]
- 2004: Helen Sawyer Hogg Public Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada[2]
- 1991–1992: Herbert C. Pollock Award[2]
- From 1982: New York Academy of Sciences[2]
- From 1979: Sigma Xi[2]
- 1979: Sigma Xi Prize, Harvard[2]
- 1979: Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Sara J. Schechner | Sara J. Schechner". 2019-03-22. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "CV Sara J. Schechner" (PDF). 2019-03-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ↑ Crowe, Michael J. (1998). "Review of Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology". Physics Today. 51 (9): 61. doi:10.1063/1.882449.
- ↑ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ↑ "Paul-Bunge-Preis geht an Sara J. Schechner – Career Women in motion". 2019-03-22. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.