WOOLF, Harry 1923-2003

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born August 12, 1923, in New York, NY; died of complications from Parkinson's disease January 6, 2003, in Princeton, NJ. Historian, educator, administrator, and author. Woolf served as director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1976 to 1987, during which time his fund-raising skills enabled the renowned graduate research institute to more than triple its endowment. He remained there as a professor until 1994. Woolf had previously spent fifteen years at Johns Hopkins University as Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History of Science and as a provost of the university. He also taught at other U.S. institutions and at universities around the world. Woolf was an active board member and consultant to a broad spectrum of academic organizations and research facilities, including the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Family Health International, Spacelabs Medical, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also served as an editor of Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. Woolf's writings include The Transits of Venus: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Science, Quantification: A History of the Meaning of Measurement in the Natural and Social Sciences, Science as a Cultural Force, Some Strangeness in the Proportion, and an edited work, Analytic Spirit: Essays in the History of Science.

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New York Times, January 8, 2003, obituary by Paul Lewis, p. A23.

Washington Post, January 11, 2003, p. B7.