Education
Ph.D. Yale University
M.A. Linköping University, Sweden
B.S. Ohio University
Research Interests
History of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology; Discovery and invention; Early modern science
Courses Taught
STSC 323 / HSOC 323 – Scientific Instruments and the Making of Knowledge
Selected Publications
“Finding Yttrium: Johan Gadolin and the Development of a Discovery,” in The Nature of Discovery in the Chemical Sciences, eds. Annette Lykknes and Brigitte van Tiggelen. (Singapore: World Scientific, forthcoming).
"The Pocket Laboratory: The Blowpipe in Eighteenth-Century Swedish Mineralogy," Ambix, Vol 66, Issue 1 (February 2019): 1-22.