David Lukens, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Natural Sciences

"There is nothing more exciting than watching students in class make discoveries on their own.  These are the only discoveries that remain with them."

Lukens has been a member of the Shimer faculty since 1991. Prior to joining the Shimer faculty Lukens was carpenter remodeling homes in the Chicago area, Professor at Cuttington College and Divinity School, Liberia, and was an Instructor at Dean Junior College in Franklin, Massachusetts.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History of Science
University of Toronto, 1979

A.M.T., Harvard University Graduate School of Education, 1957

B.S., Science Teaching
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957

COLLOQUIA

"From Euclid to Godel by way of Lobachevsky,"  at the Illinois Section of the Mathematics association of America, April 2005.