Robert Palter

Palter was born in Queens, New York. He earned a degree in chemistry at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, working on the Manhattan Project. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and is currently Dana Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A scholar with wide-ranging interests, he has throughtout his academic career published on the philosophy and history of science as well as...See more

Palter was born in Queens, New York. He earned a degree in chemistry at Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, working on the Manhattan Project. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and is currently Dana Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A scholar with wide-ranging interests, he has throughtout his academic career published on the philosophy and history of science as well as eighteenth-century intellectual history. See less