Joy Harvey

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Joy Harvey
Born
Joy Dorothy Harvey

1934
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
OccupationHistorian

Joy Dorothy Harvey (born 1934) is an American historian of science. [1]

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Life

Harvey gained a PhD from Harvard University in 1983. [2] She has been an associate editor of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and written a biography of Clémence Royer, Darwin's first French translator. [3] She and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie collaborated on the multi-volume Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. [4]

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References

  1. Library of Congress Name Authority file
  2. Harvey, Races specified, evolution transformed: the social context of scientific debates originating in the Societe d'anthropologie de Paris, 1859-1902. PhD, Harvard University, 1983.
  3. Eve-Marie Engels; Thomas F. Glick (2008). The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. A&C Black. p. 20. ISBN   978-1-4411-6662-3.
  4. Pnina G. Abir-Am, The Making of a Historian of Women in Science: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie at 80!, History of Science Society Newsletter, January 2018.