Internet, http://newsletter.jhu.edu/~gazette/2003/13jan03/13woolf.html, 2004-11-19
Information trouvée : Harry Woolf, a former provost of Johns Hopkins, longtime chair of the History of Science
Department and founding member of JHPIEGO Corp., died of Parkinson's disease on Jan.
6 at his Princeton, N.J., home. Woolf, who was 79, is remembered by former colleagues
as a great thinker, visionary and friend. He taught physics and history of science
at Boston and Brandeis universities and then was appointed to the faculty of the University
of Washington, where he became the editor of Isis, a scholarly review devoted to the
history of science. Woolf came to Johns Hopkins in 1961 to become the Willis K. Shepherd
Chair of the new History of Science Department. In 1972, he was named provost of the
university, having served previously as both deputy president and chief academic officer.
Woolf left Hopkins in 1976 to become the director of the Institute for Advanced Study,
an independent research institution located in Princeton, N.J.