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Thomas
Hughes
Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science,
University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Visiting
Professor, MIT |
Thomas
Hughes is Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science
at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has served as the Torsten Althin Professor at the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
His
most recent books include RESCUING PROMETHEUS (Vintage,
2000); AMERICAN GENESIS (Penguin 1990), a Pulitzer Prize
finalist; and LEWIS MUMFORD: PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL (Oxford
University Press 1990), which he edited with Agatha Hughes.
He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, U.S.
National Academy of Engineering, Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society
for the History of Technology. The Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm and Northwestern University awarded him honorary
degrees.
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