I. Bernard Cohen

Name: I. Bernard Cohen

Born: March 1, 1914

Death: June 23, 2003 (Age: 89)

Computer-related contributions

• Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of numerous books on the history of science, computers and, in particular, Isaac Newton.
• He spent several decades as a special consultant for history of computing with IBM.
• First American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science.

Significant publications

• Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition (1955).
• The Birth of a New Physics (1960).
• Introduction to Newton's Principia (1971).
• The Newtonian Revolution (1981).
• "Florence Nightingale". Scientific American (1984).
• Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) (1999).
• The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (2005).

Honors and awards

• Awarded the Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society (1974).