John Servos

John William Servos (b. 1951¹) is an American professor and historian of science. His research centers on the historical development of science as a discourse and in the form of institutions and on how science has situated itself historically in the culture at large.²

Servos is the Anson D. Morse Professor of History at Amherst College, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past President (2002–2003) of the History of Science Society.³

His book, Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling, received the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award for best book in the history of science in 1991.³

He received his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972, his and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1979.³

• Servos, John W. (1976). "The Knowledge Corporation: A. A. Noyes and Chemistry at Cal-Tech(sic), 1915–1930". Ambix. 23 (3): 175–186. doi:10.1179/amb.1976.23.3.175.
• —— (1983). "To Explore the Borderland: The Foundation of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington". Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. 14 (1): 147–185. doi:10.2307/27757528. JSTOR 27757528.
• —— (1984). "The Intellectual Basis of Specialization". Chemistry and Modern Society. ACS Symposium Series. Vol. 228. pp. 1–19. doi:10.1021/bk-1984-0228.ch001. ISBN 9780841207950.
• —— (1985). "History of Chemistry". Osiris. 1: 132–146. doi:10.1086/368642. S2CID 143902505.
• —— (1986). "Mathematics and the Physical Sciences in America, 1880-1930". Isis. 77 (4): 611–629. doi:10.1086/354268. S2CID 144163945.
• —— (1994). "Changing Partners: The Mellon Institute, Private Industry, and the Federal Patron". Technology and Culture. 35 (2): 221–257. doi:10.2307/3106301. JSTOR 3106301. S2CID 111527532.
• —— (1996). "Engineers, Businessmen, and the Academy: The Beginnings of Sponsored Research at the University of Michigan". Technology and Culture. 37 (4): 721–762. doi:10.2307/3107096. JSTOR 3107096. S2CID 113119790.

• Servos, John W., Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.⁴ ISBN 0-691-08566-8
• Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Lees, Lynn Hollen; Servos, John W., Global society : the world since 1900, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. ISBN 0-618-01850-6