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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is an American historian of science, the curator of medicine and science at the National Museum of American History.

Education

Kidwell graduated from Grinnell College in 1971. She went to Yale University for graduate study, earning an M. Phil. in 1974 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979. Her doctoral dissertation was Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600–1860).

Books

Kidwell is the co-author of:

• Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History (with Paul E. Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
• Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 (with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

With Michael R. Williams, she is the translator and editor of:

• The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (by Ernst Martin, MIT Press, 1992).

Recognition

In 2018, Kidwell was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on the History of Physics, "for distinguished contributions to the history of physics, astronomy, and mathematics, particularly the work of women in these fields, the development of Harvard College Observatory, and the history of mathematical theory, instruments of computation, and mathematics education".

References

1. ^ "Peggy A. Kidwell", Our People, National Museum of American History, retrieved 2020-02-14
2. Worldcat catalog entry for Solar radiation and heat from Kepler to Helmholtz (1600-1860), retrieved 2020-02-14
3. Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
   • Hammerton, James Cecil (1994), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN 9781560983118
   • Feldman, Larry (March 1995), The Mathematics Teacher, 88 (3): 243, JSTOR 27969287{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Small, James S. (July 1995), Technology and Culture, 36 (3): 717–719, doi:10.2307/3107276, JSTOR 3107276{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Swarzlander, Earl (Fall 1995), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 17 (3): 82, doi:10.1109/mahc.1995.397068, S2CID 21629366{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Mahoney, Michael S. (December 1995), Isis, 86 (4): 691–692, doi:10.1086/357396, JSTOR 235455{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Babaian, Sharon (Winter 1996), The Public Historian, 18 (1): 132–134, doi:10.2307/3377903, JSTOR 3377903{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
4. Reviews of Tools of American Mathematics Teaching:
   • Althoen, Steven C., zbMATH, Zbl 1156.00011{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Grier, David Alan (January 2009), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 31 (1): 73, doi:10.1109/mahc.2009.15{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (March–April 2009), "Things that teach", American Scientist, 97 (2): 170–171, doi:10.1511/2009.77.170, JSTOR 27859312
   • Wisnioski, Matt (April 2009), Technology and Culture, 50 (2): 500–502, doi:10.1353/tech.0.0281, JSTOR 40345646{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kilpatrick, Jeremy (May 2009), Science Education, 93 (3): 581–583, doi:10.1002/sce.20335{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Shell-Gellasch, Amy (August 2009), Historia Mathematica, 36 (3): 283–285, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.004{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Strassfeld, Brenda (November 2009), "Review", The Mathematics Teacher, 103 (4): 311, JSTOR 20876614
   • Bennett, Andrew G. (2010), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (1): 53–55, MR 2590115
   • Silver, Daniel S. (February 2010), American Mathematical Monthly, 117 (2): 190–192, doi:10.4169/000298910X476112, JSTOR 10.4169/000298910x476112, MR 2590199, S2CID 218543934{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Crossfield, Don (February 2010), "Review", Convergence, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.4169/loci002860 (inactive 1 November 2024){{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
   • Van Brummelen, Glen (March 2010), Isis, 101 (1): 236–237, doi:10.1086/653893, JSTOR 10.1086/653893{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Ehrhardt, Caroline (January–March 2011), Histoire de l'Éducation (in French), 129 (129): 88–91, doi:10.4000/histoire-education.2308, JSTOR 41342833{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Sinclair, Nathalie; Chorney, Sean (April 2012), Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 14 (2): 173–178, doi:10.1080/10986065.2012.660034, S2CID 143234945{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Reviews of The Calculating Machines:
   • Golan, Jonathan Samuel (1992), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ISBN 9780262132787
   • Booth, A. D. (1993), Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH, MR 1174086, Zbl 1066.01501{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Tweedale, Geoffrey (March 1993), The British Journal for the History of Science, 26 (1): 126–127, doi:10.1017/S0007087400030648, JSTOR 4027388{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 13 (3): 182, June 1993, doi:10.1177/027046769301300399, S2CID 220737211{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Swade, Doron (March 1994), Isis, 85 (1): 136–137, doi:10.1086/356742, JSTOR 235911{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. APS Fellows Nominated by FHP: 2018, APS Forum on the History of Physics, retrieved 2020-06-26

• Living people
• Grinnell College alumni
• Yale University alumni
• American historians of science
• Smithsonian Institution people
• Fellows of the American Physical Society
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers