Continental Who's Who

Everett Mendelsohn, PhD

Everett Mendelsohn, Ph.D., is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Retired Distinguished Professor in the field of education at Harvard University.

A revered powerhouse in education, Dr. Everett Mendelsohn, is a retired professor of the history of science teaching students at the distinguished Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Mendelsohn has been with Harvard since 1960 accumulating over 50 years of experience spending his entire career with Harvard in the history department.

Throughout his teaching career and as Chairman of the Science and History Department, and director of a research group on biomedical sciences he continued to research the history of the life sciences and aspects of the social and sociological history of science, as well as the relations of science and modern societies.

Before being granted the opportunity to teach at Harvard, Dr. Mendelsohn attended the university himself earning his designation Doctor of Philosophy. A former visiting fellow at Churchill College, a division of the University of Cambridge in England, Dr. Mendelsohn was an invited Fellow with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel and a visiting fellow with Zentrum for Interdisciplinary Forschung and Wissenschafts Holleg in Germany. Bringing his knowledge across the pond he also taught as a professor invitee at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris.

Dr. Everett Mendelsohn has published over a dozen books, sharing his research accomplishments in works such as “Heat and Life: The History of the Theory of Animal Heat” in 1964, ‘Human Aspects of Biomedical Innovation” in 1971, “Science in Culture” in 2001 and “Life Sciences Before the Twentieth Century: Biographical Portraits” in 2002, amongst numerous academic articles. Other career accomplishments include serving as a leading member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medicine and Social Epistemology, as well as several other professional journals. Looking to share his knowledge even further he later became the founder and editor of the journal of the History of Biology, and Founder of the Sociology of Sciences.

Dr. Everett Mendelsohn dedicates his success to his wife Mary B. Anderson of 45 years.