Thomas L. Hankins

Thomas Leroy Hankins (born September 9, 1933, in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American historian of science who trained as a physicist, taught high school physics, and then pursued graduate studies in history of science at Yale, Harvard (MAT), and Cornell (PhD, 1964).[1][2][3] He joined the University of Washington Department of History immediately after graduation, taught there until retiring in 2000, and continued part-time until 2005; he is now Professor Emeritus and authored works like 'Science and the Enlightenment' and a biography of Sir William Rowan Hamilton.[1][2][3][5][9] In 1998, he received the George Sarton Medal for his contributions to the field.[1]