Margaret D. Garber, Assistant Professor of History of Science at California State University at Fullerton, received a fellowship for 2005 to continue her research project concerning the cultural practices of physicians in seventeenth century Central Europe. Of particular interest is the work of the members of the Academia naturae curiosorum, (the Academy of the Investigators of Nature), the first scientific society to be organized within the Central European and German territories. The Academy was founded in 1652 and the membership grew from four original members to a few hundred, with sufficient funding to publish a journal that began in 1670, the Miscellanea curiosa. The Library's holding of this journal begin with volume 2 in 1671 and go through 1696, covering a significant period for Professor Garber's research.

Jole Shackelford of St. Paul received a fellowship for the spring of 2005 to work on a prospective book for Harvard University Press on the seventeenth-century Danish royal physician, collector, and professor of medicine, Ole Worm (1588-1654). Worm’s posthumously published and rare Museum Wormianum (Leiden, 1655) is considered one of the richest and most important records of an early modern scientific collection. A copy is available in the library's History of Science Collection, along with many related books. Dr. Shackelford’s earlier research has already resulted in a lucid essay entitled "Documenting the Factual and the Artifactual: Ole Worm and Public Knowledge" (Endeavour 23 (1999), pp. 65-71).

Ryan Fagan received a fellowship for research in the spring of 2004 to conduct an in-depth study of the role of the secretary of the Royal Society of London as the chief administrator and editor of the Philosophical Transactions in the early years of the society. His research covered the work of Robert Hooke, one of the great geniuses of seventeenth-century England, and in particular Hooke’s interest in scientific method.

Margareta Lützhöft of Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden received a fellowship to support research on historical marine technology in February 2004. Her project was to compile an overview of the growth of technology used in the control rooms onboard ships, and to search for and document any interaction in the design process between users and developers of that technology. Her work at the library helped her to complete her thesis, which was published by her university as "The technology is great when it works": Maritime Technology and Human Integration on the Ship's Bridge (Linköping, 2004).

Kevin Armitage received a fellowship in the third quarter of 2003 for dissertation research on the nature-study movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He read extensively in the 19-volume run of The Nature Study Review, the primary scholarly and theoretical journal devoted to nature-study. Kevin also read works by some of the prominent proponents of nature study, such as Liberty Hyde Bailey and E. Laurence Palmer. Kevin explains that the nature-study movement was "a widely popular pedagogical program that grew in reaction to the vast social changes brought about by the second industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century. The Nature Study movement was in effect a debate over the place of science in American life."

Dale Nimz is a researcher in environmental history whose project was to study the development and effects of engineered river control, with a focus on projects in Kansas. He read widely in civil engineering as it applies to rivers, and delved into the library’s government documents collection in search of documents that relate specifically to projects in Kansas. His research lead to completion of his doctoral dissertation in environmental history in the spring of 2003

John Pannabecker has written and researched widely on the history of technology, and particularly on technology as reflected in the French encyclopedic works of the eighteenth century. He used his fellowship in 2002 to read extensively in an early nineteenth-century French encyclopedia of technology that is not widely held in the United States. The Linda Hall Library owns all 22 volumes of the set, plus the accompanying two atlas volumes of engraved plates.

Maril Hazlett, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas, spent four weeks at the library in June-July 2001. Her thesis in environmental history involves an examination of the reaction to Rachel Carsen's book, Silent Spring, which was published in 1962. Ms. Hazlett is particularly interested in reviewing the responses that appeared in scientific and technical publications after 1962, and the subsequent controversy over human health and pesticides.

Benjamin W. Pinney, a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spent three weeks at the library in January 2001, engaged in research for his dissertation, "Engineering Management: Systems, Strategies, and Projects, 1890-1950." His project traces the history of the management of scientific and engineering projects from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s. Especially important for this research were the papers and conference proceedings of engineering societies that are in the library’s collections, many of which came from the Engineering Societies Library.

Herbert Folsom, a doctoral candidate at Iowa State University, used his eight-week fellowship during the fourth quarter of 2000 to conduct research on the history of astronomy. More specifically, he examined the controversy that continued from the seventeenth century until quite recently on the nature and formation of lunar craters. The Linda Hall Library's collection is particularly strong in this area, as it includes materials from the historical periods right up to the present.

Stuart Pierson, former professor of history at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, used a three-week fellowship in April and May 2000 to revisit a chapter from his doctoral dissertation. Professor Pierson used the library’s holdings in eighteenth-century chemistry journals and publications from scientific academies to reassess the work of the French chemist Gay-Lussac. Professor Pierson gave a public presentation on his research to the Friends of the Linda Hall Library on May 3, 2000.

Kent Alexander Curtis completed a close reading of several mining engineering publications that were central to his dissertation, which is an environmental history of the copper mining industry in Montana’s Butte-Anaconda region. Dr. Curtis’s fellowship in 1999-2000 concluded with a public presentation in February 2000. His completed dissertation was titled "An Ecology of Industry: Mining and Nature in Western Montana, 1860-1907."

Susan McMahon, a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta, received an award for the month of July 1999. Ms. McMahon's project involved a re-evaluation of the roles and practices of Natural History in early modern England. During the term of her fellowship, she examined the library's collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century natural history. She is particularly interested in the work of naturalists during the scientific revolution. A paper based on her research at the library was given immediately after her fellowship at the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis.

Karen De Bres, Associate Professor of Geography, Kansas State University, visited the library in 1999, to investigate the early history of western American science in Kansas. Her research considers both the immediate context of the growth of academic departments in the nineteenth century and also the wider issue of the changing culture of American science.

Todd Timmons, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oklahoma, worked at the library in May 1999 to study the development of the American mathematics community in the early part of the nineteenth century. He returned to the Library in the first quart of 2000 to continue his research.

David Aubin, a post-doctorate researcher from Montreal, received a fellowship in October 1998. His research on the history of physics in the twentieth century focused on the discovery of helium and on the application of helium technology. Dr. Aubin found a wealth of material in the library to support his research, and was particularly impressed by the library's collection of U.S. government documents.

Kerry Magruder, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oklahoma, was an active reader in the library's rare book collection during the summer of 1997, while he pursued his research to assess theories of the earth in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The History of Science Collection is particularly strong in this area, and Dr. Magruder also utilized the secondary resources in the general collections for his research. His public presentation of his research, given to a full auditorium in January 1998, was entitled "A Journey to the Center of the Earth".

Robinson Yost, a doctoral candidate at Iowa State University, was the library's third annual recipient of a research fellowship in the history of science, engineering, and technology. Dr. Yost finished his two month period of study at the library in August 1996, and gave a public presentation of his research at the library on August 6, entitled "Lodestone and Earth: The Study of Magnetism in Great Britain, c. 1760-1840."

Sarah Pfatteicher received a fellowship in 1995 to continue research for her doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her thesis analyzed the history of engineers' reactions to engineering disasters. She was also been working on a biography of Daniel Webster Mead (1862-1948), a civil engineer and 1936 president of the ASCE. The fellowship allowed Dr. Pfatteicher to use the library's extensive collection of engineering materials. She visited the library for several extended periods of research during the year, and gave a public lecture to present her research on September 27, 1995.

Kathleen Whalen, doctoral candidate in the Department of History, University of California, Davis, received a fellowship in 1994 and spent two months studying early herbal and botanical literature in the Library. The focus of her study was to examine the descriptive language and organizing methods used by authors of Renaissance and early modern herbals and botanical texts, in an attempt to understand assumptions about the organization of nature that guided and shaped these different methods of organization and classification.