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 * 1)  -- Ancient and Early Modern science, History of mathematics, Ancient philosophy
 * 2)  -- general, especially history of physical sciences
 * 3)  -- general history of science, ancient to modern
 * 4)  -- Background: B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University ; Interests: global and societal impact of engineering
 * 5)  -- cosmology,  physics
 * 6)  -- physical sciences, biological sciences, technology
 * 7)  -- esp. modern physical and biological sciences
 * 8)  -- limited to history of physics
 * 9)  -- history of physics and medicine
 * 10)  -- physics, materials science, electrical engineering
 * 11)  -- history of philosophy and science in the Middle Ages
 * 12)  -- History of chemistry
 * 13)  -- US Astronomy and Astronomical Observatories
 * 14)  -- mechanics, physics, engineering, thermodynamics, mathematics. I'll also help ensure that the perspective remains global rather than Eurocentric.
 * 15)  -- Industrial Revolution
 * 16)  -- biology esp. botany and genetics
 * 17)  -- biology esp. botany and zoology and endemics of Sri Lanka
 * 18)  -- biology, esp. translations of German articles
 * 19)  -- religion and science, fundamentalism & the creationist/intelligent design wave as a challenge to science
 * 20)  -- cosmology, particle physics, general relativity. I don't know much, but I do what I can.
 * 21)  -- whatever I can remember from college HPS, but I might be good on local Cambridge stuff.
 * 22)  -- history of natural philosophy, psychology, neuroscience
 * 23)  -- history of engineering
 * 24)  -- history of physics, math, logic.
 * 25)  -- psychology (anything to do with the scientific discipline)
 * 26)  -- esp. medieval science, and the relationship between science and religion.
 * 27)  -- biology, esp. neuroscience and molecular biology
 * 28)  -- history of chemistry and geology, translations from German
 * 29)  -- astronomy to Kepler/Galileo, Sci. Revolution, religion and science
 * 30)  -- History and biography of historic mechanical engineering and invention; Industrial Revolution; Admin on Wikisource
 * 31)  -- Meteorology, climatology, oceanography and bits of other Earth science.
 * 32)  -- Engineering related including invention and the history of technology. Particularly interested in Edison and late nineteenth century American inventors.
 * 33)  -- genetics, history of science 17th-19th centuries
 * 34)  -- History of astronomy, telescope manufacturers and astrophysics
 * 35)  -- History of mathematics and its applications in technology, mainly 19th century
 * 36)  -- History of physics, mostly - will work elsewhere if can contribute. Undergrad Physicist, 'minored' in History and Philosophy of Science in 2nd year.
 * 37)  -- Studied STS at MIT.
 * 38)  -- M.D. Ph.D. biochemistry, research career in Sickle Cell Disease, now retired, and with time on my hands.
 * 39)  -- Mathematics, Computing, Information
 * 40)  -- History of Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Medieval Science
 * 41)  -- natural philosophy, esp. 17th century and late Aristotelian; mathematics
 * 42)  -- HCI/informatics/history of computing, history of anthropology, science technology society, history of public health
 * 43)  -- limited mid-HS knowledge, but will help if I can
 * 44)  -- PhD in statistics, currently teaching genetics.
 * 45)  -- PhD in History of Science, history of natural history, science in Russia. Background: M.Sc. biology.
 * 46)  -- Sincere dilettante; enjoys translating old texts
 * 47)  -- science studies / sociology of science
 * 48)  -- Biology, Paleontology
 * 49)  -- MA in Victorian Studies
 * 50)  -- Ancients
 * 51)  -- Computer Science, Psychology, Translation (en,de,es)
 * 52)  -- Science museums, history of computing
 * 53)   --  review as reader of science; know a bit of fringe stuff; NPOV
 * 54)  -- esp. geology (which I didn't see listed in the navbar!?)
 * 55)  -- MA zoology, excellent general knowledge of biology, biology writer/editor
 * 56)  -- librarian in a science & engineering library; working on sources for historical scientist biographies (my notes)
 * 57)  -- biology, natural history, science ...
 * 58)  -- history and philosophy of science, chemistry, physics, biographies
 * 59) -- scientific and musical instruments, open source communities, the economic sociology of taste
 * 60)  -- Working on ancient and medieval Science, and History of science in China at the moment; especially providing citations to articles.
 * 61)  -- Working on United States technological and industrial history and History of MIT, BS Mechanical Engineering & BS STS
 * 62)  -- Ph.D. in Psychology
 * 63) -- history and philosophy of science and mathematical sciences 1400 to 1700
 * 64)  -- geology, volcanoes
 * 65)  -- Most history, Western and Middle East; Weak on Asian
 * 66)  -- History of mathematics
 * 67)  -- History of special relativity, aether, and experiments.
 * 68)  -- History of spaceflight science
 * 69)  -- History of microbiology and molecular biology
 * 70)  -- Natural history and palaeontology of SE Asia and Australasia
 * 71)  -- history of science and technology, especially astrophysics & biological sciences; also interested in science & women/law/religion
 * 72)  -- History of technology, mathematics, engineering
 * 73)  21:50, 31 July 2007 (UTC) — History of biology, evolution, biography of major figures
 * 74)  history of engineering, interest in pseudosciences, though not exactly an expert in either
 * 75)  philosophy of science, evolution of human consciousness
 * 76)  Francis Galton; Richard Burton; Cyril Burt; Cyril Darlington; History of Behaviour Genetics and Differential Psychology, especially the London School.
 * 77)  -- History of entomology, biography of major figures
 * 78)  -- History of Medicine and other health-related subjects
 * 79)  -- History of scientific instruments, particularly in astronomy, navigation and surveying
 * 80)  -- Medicine, Education and related subjects
 * 81)  -- Disease and Medical History / Evolution / Military Technology
 * 82)  -- History of modern medicine
 * 83)  - Historiography, sociology
 * 84)  - archivist/academic; history of molecular biology, manned spaceflight, space medicine
 * 85)  - History of biology / Agricultural history
 * 86)  - 16th to 19th century chemistry.
 * 87) MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 11:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC) - History of Medicine (Prehistoric to 20th century)
 * 88)  -- History of zoology and exploration
 * 89)  -- History of psychology and biology, Historiography
 * 90)  -- History of technology, 18th and 19th century science
 * 91) - physical science
 * 92)  -- Interests in chemistry, and general sciences. Science education.
 * 93)  -- 19th century medicine, history of biomedical publishing
 * 94)  -- History of biology, psychology, computer science, sexology
 * 95)  -- History of chemistry, history of science and education
 * 96)  -- History of the scientific method, evolution, neuroscience, medicine, psychology.
 * 97)  -- Physics, British science
 * 98)  -- science of ancient civilizations
 * 99)  -- Pre-20th-century science, especially natural science, focusing on the 19th century, the Middle Ages, and ancient times
 * 100)  -- history of science, medicine, and travel literature from 16th to 18th centuries, philosophy of history.
 * 101)  -- History of Biology, especially developmental and evolutionary biology.
 * 102)  -- History of scientific institutions, societies, and communities. 18th century
 * 103) DAIVID MAKAU -- Physical sciences, biochemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry sciences
 * 104)  -- Darwin, his colleagues and his predecessors.
 * 105)  -- Mycology
 * 106)  -- Physics, physicists quotes
 * 107)  -- Historiography, evolutionary biology, physics, geology, chemistry.
 * 108)  -- Chemistry, physical science in general, particular interest in the development of the "atomic hypothesis" in the XIX century
 * 109)  -- History of physical sciences, nuclear sciences, computing, technology, science and media. 20th century.
 * 110)  -- Astronomy, mathematical astronomy, time, technology.
 * 111)  -- History of medicine, history of psychiatry.
 * 112)  -- chemistry
 * 113)  -- Biographies of great scientists and engineers, communications and data processing technology 1700 - 2000
 * 114)  -- biology and biomedical sciences; 19th and early 20th century British and German scientists, esp. biologists and physiologists
 * 115)  -- History of materials science and related fields (e.g. crystallography, solid state chemistry/physics, mineralogy)
 * 116)  -- Geophysics and magnetism
 * 117)  -- Relation between science and religion, science and philosophy (from a historical perspective)
 * 118)  -- Entomology: bibliography and systematic
 * 119)  -- General XXth Century intellectual history; integration of modern physics models and Western psychotherapies with Eastern spiritual traditions. Toulmin, Feyerabend, John Wheeler; Manhattan project/Truman/Japanese survivors witness; disarmament
 * 120)  -- History of Islamic science
 * 121)  -- Darwin, Battlefield Medicine
 * 122)  -- History of Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Medieval Science
 * 123)  -- Science biographies, neuroscience, philosophy of science, ethology, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, anthropology
 * 124)  -- biochemistry, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Linus Pauling
 * 125)  -- geology & historical geology.
 * 126)  -- history of astronomy
 * 127)  -- controversies over who discovered what first; and ideas which gained quick acceptance only to be shown to be pseudoscience later or vice versa: great ideas stalled for decades or more by stubborn traditionalists
 * 128)  -- history of medicine; history of physiology
 * 129)  --Just your normal smart middle schooler who loves science
 * 130)  -- history & philosophy of medicine, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, biological and social sciences
 * 131)  -- history of modern physics, esp. nuclear and climate
 * 132)  -- biology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, geology, sociobiology
 * 133)  Trillig (talk) 14:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 134)  -- history of chemistry, nineteenth century, Germany, France, Great Britain
 * 135)  -- all areas of science, especially contributions of female scientists
 * 136)  -- Bird geek so birds, ornithology and related topics
 * 137)  -- Natural history
 * 138)  -- also philosophy of science
 * 139)  History of science such as physics, mathematics, astronomy & medicine in land of Persia & Iran.
 * 140) Cdhobbs9 (talk) 02:17, 14 September 2013 (UTC) History of the origin of the earth, Astronomy, Meteorology, marketing and advertising.
 * 141) history of astronomy and astrology, history of science in Islamic contexts, history of women in science
 * 142)  -- history of biology, current focus on the quinarian system
 * 143) -anything assoiciated with the major branches of science, especially in relation to space science.
 * 144)  Ancient non-western science, history of evolutionary thought.
 * 145)  history of mathematics+logic
 * 146)  Automobile engineering, Thoughts on the nature of universe, Quantum physics
 * 147)  middle schooler with interest in Zoos, aquariums and Zoology
 * 148)  Early modern phlogistic medicine.
 * 149) Libertybison (talk)
 * 150)  anything really, but esp. human sciences (e.g. medicine, psychological science, etc.), twentieth century science, women in science
 * 151)  history and philosophy of medicine
 * 152)  Mostly Roman stuff
 * 153)  -- mostly biological sciences, especially biographies of naturalists
 * 154)  Mostly physics.
 * 155)  to learn while editing, history of logic and science in general
 * 156)  the invention of doubt
 * 157)  history of technology & its impacts on society, history of psychology, ancient science, pre-history science and other non-classical forms of understanding reality
 * 158)  -- Optical physics
 * 159)  interested in the Scientific Revolution, esp. Galileo and his contemporaries
 * 160)  Grad student in STS, focusing on Engineering Studies
 * 161) RaptorChief (talk) 05:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 162) Biochemlife (talk) 14:42, 5 May 2018 (UTC) women in science, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, structural biology, molecular biology
 * 163) User: DiasporaCryptid
 * 164) W559 (talk) 17:47, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 165)  -- History of Medicine, Biology, Miliary Weapons
 * 166)  Histories surrounding diabetes; human anatomical illustrations 16C-19C; patent medicine
 * 167)  Industrial revolution; lighthouses; wind energy
 * 168)  -- General science & tech. history, physics, biology
 * 169)  -- History of gold mining from seawater
 * 170)  -- Science at the Crossroads
 * 171)  -- Physical sciences with particular interest in physical chemistry
 * 172)  -- Historical biographies of Dutch, German, Austrian, and Swiss scientists
 * 173)  -- history of natural history, history of ecology, industrial revolution, environmental history
 * 174)  -- late nineteenth/early twentieth plant exploring expeditions, scientific illustration, botanical art, scientific patronage
 * 175)  -- General history
 * 176)  -- medicine, psychology, biology, physics -- joined 2021
 * 177)  -- History of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Science, with emphasis on Optics, Mechanics and Mathematics
 * 178)  -- History of biology and major figures/key events
 * 179)  -- History of Psychology
 * 180)  medicine, psychometrics, astronomy, geography
 * 181)  -- History of science in the Middle Ages
 * 182)  —- History of Physics and Astronomy
 * 183)  -- Science in medieval Islamic civilization
 * 184)  -- Medieval and early modern science
 * 185)  -- Economics, AI, Technological Eras
 * 186)  -- Chemistry, Medieval European Science, Industrial Revolution, Renaissance Science
 * 187)  -- Physical sciences, primarily physics.
 * 188)  -- physics.
 * 189)  -- The history of symmetry, specifically the development of symmetry 1800-2000.
 * 190)  -- History of physics, women in science
 * 1)  -- History of Medicine, Biology, Miliary Weapons
 * 2)  Histories surrounding diabetes; human anatomical illustrations 16C-19C; patent medicine
 * 3)  Industrial revolution; lighthouses; wind energy
 * 4)  -- General science & tech. history, physics, biology
 * 5)  -- History of gold mining from seawater
 * 6)  -- Science at the Crossroads
 * 7)  -- Physical sciences with particular interest in physical chemistry
 * 8)  -- Historical biographies of Dutch, German, Austrian, and Swiss scientists
 * 9)  -- history of natural history, history of ecology, industrial revolution, environmental history
 * 10)  -- late nineteenth/early twentieth plant exploring expeditions, scientific illustration, botanical art, scientific patronage
 * 11)  -- General history
 * 12)  -- medicine, psychology, biology, physics -- joined 2021
 * 13)  -- History of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Science, with emphasis on Optics, Mechanics and Mathematics
 * 14)  -- History of biology and major figures/key events
 * 15)  -- History of Psychology
 * 16)  medicine, psychometrics, astronomy, geography
 * 17)  -- History of science in the Middle Ages
 * 18)  —- History of Physics and Astronomy
 * 19)  -- Science in medieval Islamic civilization
 * 20)  -- Medieval and early modern science
 * 21)  -- Economics, AI, Technological Eras
 * 22)  -- Chemistry, Medieval European Science, Industrial Revolution, Renaissance Science
 * 23)  -- Physical sciences, primarily physics.
 * 24)  -- physics.
 * 25)  -- The history of symmetry, specifically the development of symmetry 1800-2000.
 * 26)  -- History of physics, women in science

Writing and editing
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In need of expansion

 * Timeline of scientific discoveries - needs a lot of expansion and improvement; each time you work on another subject, check to see if relevant discoveries are present in the timeline
 * History of materials science
 * Atomic theory
 * Theodosius Dobzhansky
 * Lise Meitner
 * Natural philosophy
 * History of optics - work in progress - needs medieval to modern coverage
 * Natural history - very bare, with some dubious information
 * History of genetics - expand timelines into prose
 * Heredity - is currently very poor, very short, and does not go back into concepts of heredity before the late 19th century in any appreciable sense.
 * Max Delbrück
 * History of zoology, post-Darwin - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. Now included in the Zoology navigation template; high priority, needs to incorporate the other good history of biology articles where appropriate
 * History of zoology (before Darwin) - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. High priority; in Zoology navigation template
 * The relationship between religion and science - partially historical. Needs a stronger framework, discussion of different models for the relationship (conflict thesis, NOMA, etc.) and either a link to a historical main article or a significant expansion of the historical part.
 * science studies
 * Silent Spring - needs section on historical significance, and better description of its contents; the only two sections of prose after the intro are currently Criticism and Vindication?, neither of which has much, if anything, worth keeping.
 * History of science in the Renaissance (links from history of science box)
 * History of molecular biology (see also molecular biology and Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids
 * Conflict thesis (aka, warfare model, Draper-White thesis) - The idea of a war between science and religion, which common in the historiography of sciece from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, and is still common among non-historians.
 * Henri Becquerel
 * Sofya Yanovskaya
 * History of paleontology - new article needs help from 19th century on
 * Biochemist Marianne Grunberg-Manago
 * United States technological and industrial history - Overlaid a table of contents and headers, but mostly empty as original article was largely abandoned as a stub
 * Space medicine - I've started building this page up but could use some helpShannon bohle 01:36, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Space spinoffs - I've started this page, which focuses on the historical applications of space research and development: areas include engineering, health/medicine, computers, etc.Shannon bohle 01:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Harry Collins
 * Bruno Latour
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * Trevor Pinch
 * Science and technology in the Soviet Union and Suppressed research in the Soviet Union needs expansion, better integration of the two articles, and balance. I've left comments on the talk pages of each article outlining what I think the articles need. Peter G Werner (talk) 01:58, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Factitious airs - historical science of gases, generally 1700s-1800s era. Need to develop text for origins and brief explanation/context of the key obsolete names and therapeutic/tox experiments

Requested articles
I am working on this --Morphovariant (talk) 19:14, 2 February 2014 (UTC) I have created List of colleges and universities offering history of science programs --Morphovariant (talk) 00:56, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * List of Colleges that offer History of Science Major

Missing scientist
Nils Eckholm - associated with early studies of CO2 and climate change
 * Missing scientist articles

Robert L. Hill - biochemist, Duke University http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedfiles/aboutus/asbmb_history/past_presidents/1970s/1976hill.html should be correct object of link on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_participants_in_the_Evolving_Genes_and_Proteins_symposium

Peter J. Moloney (1891-1989) - researcher at Connaught Laboratories (ctrl+f in article for context and relevant reference). He made key contributions to the development of insulin production methods and the diphtheria toxoid. Bios available here and here.

Fields/disciplines

 * History of environmental science (links from history of science box)
 * History of earth science
 * History of virology (see Virology)
 * History of bacteriology (see Bacteriology)
 * History of public health (see Public health)
 * History of accelerator physics or similar (see Particle physics and particle accelerator)
 * History of space exploration
 * History of molecular biology
 * History of physics and astronomy
 * List of science timelines

Other

 * Patronage in the Renaissance (see Patronage)
 * Book of Nature
 * Aristotelian Physics
 * Would this be "Aristotle's views on what we today call physics"? We have an article on Aristotle's Physics but I'm not sure that's what is meant. --Fastfission 18:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * As in (I assume), the system of physics based on Aristotle's work, that was common in some form basically until Newton. Natural motion, natural place and the elements, violent motion, etc.--ragesoss 21:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Aristotelian Mechanics (maybe just one of these, I'm not sure of the relationship)
 * Just one, I think; the main separation in Aristotle seems to be life sciences/physics Maestlin 08:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If the distinction is between Aristotelian natural philosophy (based on the Physics, Generation and corruption, Meteora and the biological works) and the tradition based on the Problemata mechanica attributed to Aristotle (and the various pseudo-Problemata that appeared in the Medieval period), then I think that separate pages are historically justified. —Goclenius 03:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Gravity theory
 * I think we need to separate Gravity from Gravity theory, but I'm not at all an expert on this. KSchutte 19:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Tetrabiblos - There is a discussion right now on Reference desk/Humanities under "Ptolemy" about the fact that it was redirecting. A stub article is needed as a placeholder.
 * The page has been created and is currently being developed. I have just added the WikiProject History of Science template to the talk page and would appreciate it if someone could add a rating to the importance scale. -- Zac  Δ talk! 10:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Project Cosmic
 * PaJaMo experiment - landmark molecular biology work by Arthur Pardee, François Jacob, and Jacques Monod
 * Three-Man Paper - an influential work on the physical nature of the gene by Hans Zimmer, Max Delbrück, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky
 * Articles listed under WikiProject Birds/Article requests
 * There needs to be an entire new section on how emerging technologies can effect the commercial market, society and other historical events. I'm not sure where this belongs. But I state why I found this page.
 * Blue lasers capable of reading at higher data compression where developed, and then as a result the media market shifts from dvd to blue ray. Record to tape, VHS to DVD. Ships and Railways to Airplanes. Bronze to Iron. I mean really important stuff. Where to put it all.
 * The history pages relate history, the history of technology pages just talk about the technology of the time. But there isn't any page which singles out, defines, or attempts to summarize events where technological advancement was the primary source of constructive or distruptive, commerical or social change. Where's that page? Am I just not finding it?--Sparkygravity (talk) 14:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Heavy copyediting

 * Science in Persia - needs copyediting for tone, style and grammar. Sangak 16:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Gottfried Leibnitz - hagiographic, massively too big and still growing
 * Nuclear arms race
 * Scientific Revolution
 * Galileo affair
 * Genealogy of theoretical physicists, survived AfD, but needs work
 * John Harrison - lots of decent text, but needs structure
 * Islamic science
 * Galileo's Daughter - As of 30 May 2006, reads like a freshman book review
 * Nicole Oresme - Relies largely on one self-published source - see discussion
 * Alchemy - Quality varies widely; ignores much of the extensive literature on the History of Alchemy.
 * Rudolf Diesel - as explained on User talk:AQUA212, we should maybe first let this newcomer change their comments to edits, but (someone removed the comments) it'd be good if an expert checked the claimed errors too. --Espoo 14:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

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