Robert DeKosky

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9462 Office: 3620 Wescoe Hall Email: rdekosky@ku.edu

Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1972). History of physical sciences, esp. chemistry; institutional development of the sciences; scientific revolution of the 16th-17th centuries. Research on history of chemistry; life and works of William Crookes; 19th-century spectroscopy; early-modern scientific revolution.

Publications include:

Knowledge and Cosmos: Development and Decline of the Medieval Perspective