Sarton, George Alfred Leon

Japanese: サートン（英語表記）Sarton， George Alfred Leon

Born: August 31, 1884 in Ghent
[Died] March 22, 1956. Cambridge, Massachusetts. An American historian of science born in Belgium. He studied chemistry, celestial mechanics and mathematics at Ghent University, and received his degree in mathematics in 1911. He emigrated to England during World War I, then to the United States (1915), where he became a naturalized citizen (22). He became a lecturer in the history of science at George Washington University, and was a member of the Carnegie Institution for Science (18), before becoming a lecturer at Harvard University (20) and a professor of the history of science at the same university (40-51). Based on the idea of "new humanism," he worked on the history of science while collecting and organizing historical materials, and working to establish the International Society for the History of Science. His main works include "History of Science and New Humanism" (36) and "Science and Tradition" (51).

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[生]1884.8.31. ヘント
[没]1956.3.22. マサチューセッツ，ケンブリッジ
ベルギー生れのアメリカの科学史家。ヘント大学で化学，天体力学，数学を学び，1911年に数学の学位取得。第1次世界大戦中にイギリスに移住し，さらにアメリカに渡り (1915) ，帰化した (22) 。ジョージ・ワシントン大学科学史講師となり，カーネギー研究所所員 (18) を経て，ハーバード大学講師 (20) ，同大学科学史教授 (40～51) 。「新ヒューマニズム」の理念に基づき，科学史の研究にたずさわりながら史料の収集・整備，国際科学史学会の設立などに尽力した。主著『科学史と新ヒューマニズム』 (36) ，『科学と伝統』 (51) など。

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