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George Sarton
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Everything in the article is directly about George Sarton. However, the sequence of events under the Life and Work section is not coherent. It jumps back and forth between years and skims over decades of his life.

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There is almost no information on his travels in the Middle East for his research, neither dates, or places he visited to investigate manuscripts. The article does mention his awards and activities at Harvard.

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In November of 2009 a request for a portrait and a infobox was requested, which was fullfilled in September 2019. A copyright problem was resolved in October of 2010, and an unanswered question about a name George Sarton may have used in his travels was posted in 2011. Very little work has been done on the article in recent years other than to remove a dead link and a picture deemed unimportant.

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George Sarton, His Isis, and the Aftermath Author: Gerald Holton via jstore and mst library
George Sarton was the editor of his journal, Isis, from 1913 until 1952, when he retired and Bernard Cohen took over as editor for the journal.

The life and career of George Sarton: The father of the history of science (1985) via request from illiad
Authors & Contributors: Garfield, Eugene (Author);

Publication Date: 1985

George Sarton
Bernard Cohen Isis Vol 48 - 1957

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The History of Science and the History of the Sciences: George Sarton, Isis, and the Two Cultures (2009) via jstore and request from illiad
Authors & Contributors: Dear, Peter (Author);

Publication Date: 2009

Western Historians of Science and Oriental Science in the Age of Imperialism (2005) request from Illiad
Authors & Contributors: Pyenson, Lewis (Author);

The Global Turn in the History of Science (2012) cannot find right noe
Authors & Contributors: Fan, Fa-ti (Author);

Abstract: This essay discusses the recent rise of interest in the global history of science. It first explains the central characteristics of this new scholarly development and distinguishes it from the earlier projects of studying science in a world-historical context pursued by George Sarton and Joseph Needham. It then identifies and critiques two images or models that have been widely adopted by scholars to discuss science in a global context, namely, circulation and trade. Finally, the essay considers the relationship between the global and the regional and suggests that it is time for East Asian STS to take a global turn.

Publication Date: 2012

Article Changes
In honor of Sarton's achievements, the History of Science Society created the award known as the George Sarton Medal. It is the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955 to an outstanding historian of science selected from the international scholarly community. The medal honors a scholar for lifetime scholarly achievement. Sarton was the founder of this society and of its journals: Isis and Osiris, which publish articles on science and culture.

Add to end: George Sarton was the editor of his journal, Isis, from 1913 until 1952, when he retired and Bernard Cohen took over as editor for the journal.

Article Draft Additons for George Sarton
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George Alfred Leon Sarton was born in Ghent, Belgium on August 31, 1884. His parents were Alfred Sarton and Léonie Van Halmé. His mother died when he was less than a year old. Sarton graduated from the University of Ghent in 1906 and two years later won a gold medal for one of his papers on chemistry. He received his PhD in mathematical physics at the University of Ghent in 1911 for a thesis on Newton's mechanics. First moving to England, he emigrated to the United States due to the First World War, and worked there the rest of his life, researching and writing about the history of science.

In 1911, he married Mabel Eleanor Elwes, an English artist. Their daughter Eleanore Marie (known as May) was born the following year in 1912. Although he and his family emigrated to England after World War I broke out, they immigrated to the United States in 1915, where they would live for the rest of their lives. He taught at the University of Illinosis in the summer of 1915 and received the award of the Prix Binoux of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, for his work in the history of science. He worked for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and lectured at Harvard University, 1916–18. At Harvard, he became a lecturer in 1920, and a professor of the history of science from 1940 until his retirement in 1951. He was also a research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1919 until 1948.

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Life
George Alfred Leon Sarton was born to Léonie Van Halmé and Alfred Sarton on August 31,1884 in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. However, within a year of his birth, George's mother died. George attended school first in his hometown before later attending school for a period of four years in the town of Chimany. George first enrolled at the University of Ghent in 1902 to study philosophy, but found that the subject did not correspond with his interests and subsequently ceased his studies. In 1904, after a period of reflection, he re-enrolled in the University to study the natural sciences. During his time at the University of Ghent George received several honors. In 1908, the four Belgium universities gave him a gold medal for chemistry, and the city of Ghent gave him a silver laurel for a memoir he wrote. He graduated with his doctorate in 1911 with a thesis in celestial mechanics. Shortly after his graduation, on June 22 1911, George married Elanor Mabel Elwes, an artist and distinguished furniture designer. The couple moved to a house in Wondelgem where their only surviving child, a daughter, Eleanore Marie or May was born in 1912.

During World War 1, in August of 1914, the German army invaded Belgium. At this time George was no longer an official member Belgium's Civil Guard. Despite this, when the invasion occurred George reported in and was assigned to patrol the nearby railroad intersection, but George encountered no German soldiers that night. Under German occupation members of the Civil Guard were treated as spies, and George buried his Civil Guard coat in the garden so he would not taken up and shot as a spy. During this time 26 German soldiers were billeted at his house, and if any of the enlisted men staying at the Sarton's house had not meet curfew George would have been shot, since he was responsible for the soldiers' safety. Soon after the German occupation, the Sarton family immigrated to England, first traveling to Holland then onward to London. They were not able to take many things with them, so the notes for George's History of Science were buried with his coat. In England George worked in the War Office, but he was unable to support a family of three on his salary. George left for America in search of a position that would enable him to support his family and allow him to complete his dream of writing the History of Science. His wife and daughter followed him to America in September 1915.

Work
(George Sarton saw his wife Elanor as a valued partner, and indeed she contributed to the work on the journal Isis from its inception to her death in 1950. Her contributions included activities ranging from wrapping and mailing the first issues of the journal to supplementing the budget with her own income as she was a distinguished furniture designer.)

Review by K8shep (talk) 15:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
1. What does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way? Since I can't tell easily who did what so far, this review goes for both of you. Great additions so far! These are really good, notable additions. Your detail and narrative are well developed and you should keep that up!

2. What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? In terms of the details about his life during the First World War, I'd like more explanation. Why bury his jacket? I don't get that. How could he be so mobile during this period? You might think about some explanation of those details as part of the important story of his life.

3. What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? Keep it up! Think about linking to other pages, too. Great job!