I. Bernard Cohen

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See also Bernard Cohen (disambiguation) for other people by this name.

I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton. Cohen attended Harvard University first as a student, taking a B.S. degree in 1937, and then a Ph.D. in the history of science in 1947. Cohen was a student of George Sarton, an important figure in the field of history of science. Cohen taught at Harvard from 1942 until his death, and his tenure was marked by the development of Harvard's program in the history of science.

Many consider Cohen's most important work to be his 1999 translation, with Anne Whitman, of Newton's Principia. This 974 page work took Cohen over 15 years to fully translate.

Cohen's April 1955 interview with Albert Einstein was the last Einstein gave before his death. It was published that July in Scientific American.


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