Prof Frederick Gregory

Emeritus Professor of History of Science
University of Florida

Gainesville, United States

Biography

Frederick Gregory is Emeritus Professor of History of Science at the University of Florida, where he taught for 31 years. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Wheaton College. After graduating with a seminary degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Wenham, Massachusetts, he completed his Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin and went on to Harvard University for his Ph.D. in the history of science.

His publications have ranged widely over disciplines from both the physical and biological sciences. He is the author of "Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany" and of "Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century." In addition he has edited the translation of the nineteenth-century philosopher/physicist Jakob Fries's book on science and religion, "Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic Sense." His 2-volume textbook in history of science, "Natural Science in Western History," appeared in 2007 with Houghton-Mifflin (now Cengage). Professor Gregory was chair of the Department of History at Florida from 1991 to 1995 and served as president of the History of Science Society of North America in 1996 and 1997. He has received numerous grants for research in his field, including an Alexander von Humboldt Grant from the German government and a fellowship from the Dibner Institute for the History of Science at MIT.

Honoraria Titles

Major Prizes

2009 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

History of Religion, History of Science

Science & Technology Interests

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Human Origins, Physics

Website

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/fgregory/

Publications

The Darwinian Revolution

2009

Natural Science in Western History,

2 vols. Houghton-Mifflin 2007

The History of Science: 1700-1900, Parts I-III

The Teaching Company, LLC 2003

Nature Lost?: Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century,

Harvard University Press 1992

Ed. with Introduction: Translation of Jakob Friedrich Fries Wissen, Glaube, und Ahndung (Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic Sense),

Dinter Verlag 1989

Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany,

D. Reidel Publishing Co 1977

"Der Preis der Verwissenschaftlichung"

Wallstein 2012
Editors:Giovanni Maio
http://www.amazon.de/Macht-Ohnmacht-Wortes-Grundfragen-personalen/dp/3835311484/ref=sr_2_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340878816&sr=1-2)