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Source: NYT

Historians in the News

2-23-08

2 historians are among the new McArthur fellows

--John A. Ochsendorf, engineer and architectural historian who uses old technologies that go back to the Incas to improve today’s buildings.

--Nancy G. Siraisi, historian of medicine focusing on the Renaissance.

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