Everett Irwin Mendelsohn

Everett I. Mendelsohn was a Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Research Professor at Harvard University, where he taught from 1960 until his retirement in 2007. He worked extensively on the history of the life sciences as well as on aspects of the social and sociological history of science and the relations of science and modern societies. Mendelsohn was the founder and former editor of the Journal of the History of Biology and a founder of the yearbook Sociology of the Sciences. He was a president of the International Council for Science Policy Studies and was deeply involved in the relations between science and modern war as a founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, and the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies. He was a founder and first president of the Cambridge-based Institute for Peace and International Security. He was awarded the Gregor Mendel Medal of the reorganized Czechoslovak Academy of Science in 1991. During 1994 he held the Olof Palme Professorship in Sweden. He received recognition for his teaching when awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1996. In 2013 he received the Harvard Centennial Medal.