Michael Crowe
Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and Concurrent Professor Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science
- Department
- Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science
- College or School
- College of Arts and Letters
- Year of Emeritus Status 2002
B.A. and B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph. D., University of Wisconsin
A specialist in the history of modern physical science, Crowe has authored eight books. These include his History of Vector Analysis (awarded a Jean Scott Prize from La Maison des Sciences de l´Homme in Paris), The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell (now available in a three-volume Japanese translation), Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution, Modern Theories of the Universe from Herschel to Hubble, Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein, and The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book. A graduate of PLS, he also served as its chair and was the founding chair of Notre Dame's Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science. He has received funding awards from various sources, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the National Science Foundation. In 2003, he served as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Louisville. In 2010, the American Astronomical Association awarded him its LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy in honor of his lifelong contributions to the history of astronomy. In conjunction with this prize, he presented a plenary address to the AAS.
Email: crowe.1@nd.edu