Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian of technology and college president. He was an instructor in medieval history at Princeton University from 1933 to 1937, a professor at Stanford University from 1937 to 1943, president of Mills College, Oakland, California, from 1943 to 1958, and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1958 until 1987. He is best known for the controversial book ''Medieval Technology and Social Change'' (1962) and for controversial articles on religion, technology, and ecology such as "Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered" (''The American Scholar'', 1958) and "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" (''Science'', 1967). White helped to found the Society for the History of Technology and was its president from 1960 to 1962. He won the 1963 Pfizer Award for ''Medieval Technology and Social Change'' and the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1964. Provided by Wikipedia