James E. McClellan III elected full-member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences
Académie is composed of 350 members and correspondents worldwide
HOBOKEN, N.J.―James E. McClellan III, Professor of History of Science and Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been elected a full-member (membre effectif) of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences. McClellan had been a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale since June of 2002.
The Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences is honorary organization that recognizes distinguished achievement in the scholarly field of the history of science. It was founded in Oslo and Paris in 1928. It is legally headquartered at the Sorbonne in Paris with a secretariat at the Centre d’Histoire des Sciences et Techniques at the University of Liège in Belgium.
The Académie is composed of approximately 350 members and correspondents worldwide. The Académie is an organ of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. It holds quadrennial general meetings and biennially awards a prize for younger scholars and the Alexandre Koyré medal for lifetime achievement in the history of science. The Académie publishes the distinguished review, the Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, in six official languages, and a series of scholarly works, De Diversis Artibus.
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