James Edgar Strick

James Strick is Professor in the Dept. of Earth and Environment and Chair of the Program in Science, Technology and Society, at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Originally trained in microbiology, and later in history of science, Dr. Strick has published extensively on the history of ideas and experiments about the origin of life, including Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation (Harvard, 2000), Wilhelm Reich, Biologist (Harvard, 2015) and, with Steven Dick, The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology (Rutgers, 2004). He is also the editor of two six volume collections of primary sources: Evolution and the Spontaneous Generation Debate (Thoemmes, 2001) and The Origin of Life Debate: Molecules, Cells, and Generation (Thoemmes, 2004). Strick has been an advisory editor of ISIS and a member of the History of Science Society Council.

A website is available at wilhelmreichbiologist.org for my new book Wilhelm Reich, Biologist, with some background material, color microphotos, access to some primary source documents, etc. to accompany the book. These will be especially useful in technical details for any scientist who wishes to repeat the experiments. Please visit it and examine the additional resources. See also online interview with me about the book at http://newbooksinscitechsoc.com/2015/10/06/james-e-strick-wilhelm-reich-biologist-harvard-up-2015/ -Dr. James Strick