Henry Edward Guerlac

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

History of Science

George Lincoln Burr	research assistant		Cornell
(A love of European history had been instilled in me by my father, whose closest friends on the Cornell faculty were men like Preserved Smith, George Lincoln Burr, M. L. W. Laistner, and Carl Becker. I wanted to be trained in the historians' craft.)
James Batcheller Sumner	research assistant	1932	Cornell (Chemistry Tree)
(B.A. : Combined Action of Ethyl Urethane and Sodium Thiocyanate on the Living Cell.)
Lawrence Joseph Henderson	grad student		Harvard Medical School (Physiology Academic Tree)
(In autumn 1933 he became an assistant in Harvard’s Fatigue Laboratory, ... Gradually he moved into biochemistry and then into history.)
George Sarton	grad student	1941	Harvard
(He took several courses from George Sarton which contributed to his understanding of the history of science; his dissertation was on the engineering school of Mézieres, France, under the Old Regime)

Harry Woolf	grad student	1955	Cornell
Roger Hahn	grad student	1962	Cornell