Nicolaas A. Rupke

Johnson Professor of History

Education

• Ph.D Princeton University 1972 (summa cum laude)
• M.A. Princeton University 1970
• B.S. University of Groningen 1968

Research

History of science and medicine; national science of Great Britain and Germany; science & society; science & religion; history of evolutionary biology; scientific biography

Current research: The non-Darwinian tradition in evolutionary biology. A scientific biography of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

Teaching

HIST195 Great Moments in the History of Science
HIST 295 Animal Behavior and Human Morality, 1800-Present
HIST 295 The Scientist as National Hero
HIST 295 Doomsday Science Then and Now
HIST 395 Darwin and His Critics: The History of Evolutionary Biology