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'''Alistair Cameron Crombie''' (4 November 1915 – 9 February 1996) was an Australian historian of science who began his career as a zoologist. He was noted for his contributions to research on competition between species before turning to history. '''Alistair Cameron Crombie''' (4 November 1915 – 9 February 1996) was an Australian historian of science who began his career as a zoologist. He was noted for his contributions to research on competition between species before turning to history.
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-== Early life and education == 
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-Born in [[Brisbane]], Australia, Crombie was educated at the [[Anglican Church Grammar School|Church of England Grammar School]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Mason|first=James|title=Churchie: The Centenary Register|year=2011|publisher=The Anglican Church Grammar School|location=Brisbane, Australia|isbn=978-0-646-55807-3}}</ref> and [[Geelong Grammar School]]. He then undertook tertiary study in Science at the [[University of Melbourne]], where he was a resident from 1935 at [[Trinity College (University of Melbourne)|Trinity College]].<ref>"Salvete", ''[http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/media/docs/Fleur-de-Lys-1935-Oct-bddf2fd0-9570-4036-b3cb-dc3f3b70c9fa-0.pdf The Fleur-de-Lys]'', vol. 4, no. 35 (Oct. 1935): 10.</ref> During his studies in Melbourne, he won the First Brunning Prize in Botany Part I (1935) and the Exhibition in Zoology Part III (1937).<ref>"Valete", ''[http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/media/docs/Fleur-de-Lys-1938-Oct-769ed9bd-cbf4-4b4d-be5e-2a6b453e8df8-0.pdf The Fleur-de-Lys]'', vol. 4, no.38 (Oct. 1938): 12.</ref> 
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-Crombie undertook postgraduate study at Jesus College, the [[University of Cambridge]], receiving his doctorate in 1942 in the area of population dynamics. He married Nancy Hey in 1943 and had five children. He undertook research at the Cambridge Zoological Laboratory for the British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1941 until his appointment as lecturer at [[University College London]] in 1946. Involved in the establishment of the British Society for the History of Science in 1947 (President from 1964 to 1968), he was an early editor of their ''British Journal for the Philosophy of Science''. Following publication in 1952 of his textbook ''Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science A.D. 400–1650'', in 1953 Crombie was selected to establish the teaching of [[Historiography of science|History of Science]] subjects at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], and after a year as Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, he took up his lectureship at Oxford in 1954.<ref>J.D. North, “[http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/97p257.pdf Alistair Cameron Crombie 1915–1996]”, ''British Academy'', 1998.</ref> During Crombie's tenure at Oxford, the history of science was added to the graduate level offerings of Oxford's history faculty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/alumni/oxhistorian/issue_1/04_history_scimedtech.htm |title= The History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Oxford |accessdate=2006-08-17 |author= |last=Fox |first=Robert |authorlink= |date= April 2003 |work= History Faculty Alumni Newsletter No. 1 |publisher=University of Oxford Faculty of History }}</ref> 
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-== Career == 
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-Crombie was one of the founders of the review journal ''History of Science'' in 1962, and was awarded the Galileo Prize by the Domus Galileana in Pisa in 1964. Crombie served as President of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences from 1968 to 1971. He became a Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1969, but was passed over for the Chair in History of Science when it was created at Oxford in 1971.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fox|first=Robert|title=Eloge: Alistair Cameron Crombie, 4 November 1915-9 February 1996|journal=Isis|date=March 1997|volume=88|issue=1|pages=183–186|jstor=235887|doi=10.1086/383688}}</ref> He retired in 1983 and took up a half-time appointment as Kennedy Professor in the Renaissance at Smith College, Massachusetts, and was Professor of History of Science and Medicine there from 1983 to 1985. He also held many visiting professorships in France, Germany and Japan. He was made a Senior Fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and was also made a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1994) and the Academia Leopoldina in Halle, Germany. He received the Forschungspreis (Research Award) of the [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]], honorary doctorates from Durham (1978), Paris, X-Nanterre and Sassari, and the European Premio Dondi (1995).<ref>Stuart Brown, ed., ''Dictionary of Twentieth-century British Philosophers'' (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005), vol. 1, pp, 206–7.</ref> 
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-During his career as a historian of science, Crombie identified thematic threads or "styles" in the development of European approaches to science. He published his ideas in 1994 in a definitive 3-volume work, entitled, ''Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts''. The main argument about six distinct styles of scientific thinking in the history of Western science was also published in the brief 1995 article ''Commitments and styles of European scientific thinking''. During his tenure he supervised several students, including [[Robert Fox (historian)|Robert Fox]] (Professor of the History of Science, Oxford University), [[David M Knight]] (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Durham University); [[G. E. Berrios|German E Berrios]] (Professor of the Epistemology of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) and [[Trevor Levere]] (Professor of the History of Science, University of Toronto). 
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"As A. C. Crombie (1950) has noted, the transition from the essentialist position to nominalism took place in philosophy and physics from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. It had little effect in biology until the eighteenth century, but by this time alternatives to the early strict nominalism were prevalent — conceptualism and neoplatonism. Buffon was led to espouse nominalism, not because he explicitly rejected the existence of substantial essences, but because he simply did not consider them."

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