Biography:Owen Hannaway

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Short description: Scottish historian

Owen Hannaway (8 October 1939 - 21 January 2006) was a Scottish historian.

Life

He was born on 8 October 1939 in Glasgow,[1] and educated at St Aloysius' College and Glasgow University.[2]

He died in 2006.[1]

Career

He completed his PhD in Chemistry in 1965 at the University of Glasgow.[3]

Distinctions

He was an Edelstein International Fellow.[4] He received the Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize. He has also received the Dexter Award.[3]

Selected publications

Articles

  • Hannaway, Owen (December 1986). "Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe". Isis 77 (4): 584–610. doi:10.1086/354267.  (See Andreas Libavius and Tycho Brahe.)
  • Hannaway, Owen (November 1976). "The German Model of Chemical Education in America: Ira Remsen at Johns Hopkins (1876–1913)". Ambix 23 (3): 145–164. doi:10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.145. PMID 11615603.  (See Ira Remsen.)

Books

  • The Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975)[5]

References