文档介绍：Great Scientific Ideas
That Changed the World
Part I
Professor Steven L. Goldman
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Steven L. Goldman, .
Departments of Philosophy and History, Lehigh University
Steven Goldman has degrees in physics (., Polytechnic University of New York) and philosophy
(., ., Boston University) and, since 1977, has been the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished
Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University. He has a joint appointment in the departments of
philosophy and history because his teaching and research focus on the history, philosophy, and social
relations of modern science and technology. Professor Goldman came to Lehigh from the philosophy
department at the State College campus of Pennsylvania State University, where he was a co-founder of
one of the first . academic programs in science, technology, and society (STS) studies. For 11 years
(1977–1988), he served as director of Lehigh’s STS program and was a co-founder of the National
Association of Science, Technology and Society Studies. Professor Goldman has received the Lindback
Distinguished Teaching Award from Lehigh University and a Book-of-the-Year Award for a book he co-
authored (another book was a finalist and translated into 10 languages). He has been a national lecturer
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