Derek de Solla Price
Derek de Solla Price · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1922, Leyton, London, England — 1983, London, England
United Kingdom · United States
Derek de Solla Price is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist
Derek John de Solla Price was a British-American physicist, historian of science, and information scientist regarded as the father of scientometrics for his quantitative studies of the growth and structure of scientific literature, including 'Little Science, Big Science'. He also reconstructed the workings of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism and taught at Yale. Both of his parents were descended from Jewish immigrant families.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Computer & information scientist
Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS
