James Bartholomew, Ph.D. Stanford University, is a specialist in modern Japanese history, chiefly interested in the history of science, medicine, higher education, and business in Japan. In 1985-86, he held a research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His 1989 book, The Formation of Science in Japan, received the 1992 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society and was issued in paperback in February 1993. In March 2001, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship to write a book on Japan and the Nobel science prizes from 1901 to 1949.

Prof. Bartholomew will be speaking about the marginalization of Japanese scientists and the roles that geography, politics, and history have played in that process, Japan’s relation to the Nobel Prize nomination system, and means of overcoming marginality in the scientific community.

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