I. Bernard Cohen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American historian of science
Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1914
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 20-Jun-2003
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About I. Bernard Cohen
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- Bernard Cohen (1 March 1914 – 20 June 2003) was the Victor S.
- Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton.
- Cohen was the first American to receive a PhD in history of science, was a Harvard undergraduate ('37) and then a PhD student and protégé of George Sarton who was the founder of Isis and the History of Science Society.
- Cohen taught at Harvard from 1942 until his death, and his tenure was marked by the development of Harvard's program in the history of science.
- He went on to succeed Sarton as editor of Isis (1952-1958) and, later, president of the Society (1961-1962); he was also a president of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.
- Cohen was an internationally recognized Newton scholar; his interests were encyclopedic, ranging from science and public policy to the history of computers, with several decades as a special consultant for history of computing with IBM.
- Among his hundreds of publications were such major books as Franklin and Newton (1956), The Birth of a New Physics (1959), The Newtonian Revolution (1980), Revolution in Science (1985), Science and the Founding Fathers (1995), Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (1999), and his last book, The Triumph of Numbers (2005), not to mention two jointly authored contributions, the variorum edition and new English translation of Newton's Principia.
- Cohen's April 1955 interview with Albert Einstein was the last Einstein gave before his death, in that same month.
- It was published that July in Scientific American, which also published Cohen's 1984 essay on Florence Nightingale. In 1974 he was awarded the Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society.
- Many consider Cohen's most important work to be his 1999 translation, with the late Anne Whitman, of Newton's Principia.
- This 974-page work took Cohen over 15 years to fully translate. Among Cohen's students (and protégés) were the Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hosein Nasr, Tufts University professor George E.
- Smith, Bucknell University professor Martha Verbrugge, Allen G.
- Debus and Jeremy Bernstein. He died of a bone marrow disorder.
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