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Curator of Mathematics at the National Museum of American History
Peggy A. Kidwell
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Curator of Mathematics at the National Museum of American History
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Grinnell College,
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Yale University,
Master of Philosophy
Yale University,
Doctor of Philosophy
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is an American historian of science, the curator of medicine and science at the National Museum of American History.
Education
Kidwell graduated from Grinnell College in 1971. She went to Yale University for graduate study, earning an M. Phil. in 1974 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979. Her doctoral dissertation was Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600–1860).
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Kidwell is the co-author of:
- Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History (with Paul E. Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
- Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 (with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
With Michael R. Williams, she is the translator and editor of:
- The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (by Ernst Martin, MIT Press, 1992).
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