Funded Member,
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Historical Studies -
2000-2001.

Guggenheim Fellowship - 2000-2001.

Funded Dibner Institute Visiting Scholar - 1999-2000.

NSF Fellowship - 1999-2001.

Combined NEH and NSF grant to study the collaboration of George Starkey and Robert Boyle (with Lawrence Principe).

Funded Visiting Fellow, Dibner Institute, 1993-1994.

Joseph H. Clark Grant, Harvard University, 1994-1995, 1990-1991, Milton Grant, Harvard University, 1991-1992.

"Alexandre Koyré Prize for a Young Historian of Science," International Academy of the History of Science, August, 1989.

National Science Foundation "Scholar's Award," 1989.

American Philosophical Society grant, 1987.

Schuman Prize: History of Science Society (Publishers of Isis), 1986.

Frances Yates Fellowship: Warburg Institute, London, for summer, 1987.

Whiting Fellowship: Harvard University, 1984-1985.

Sheldon Travelling Fellowship: Harvard University, 1983-1984.

Belgian-American Educational Foundation Fellowship (for graduate study in Belgium),1982-1983.

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1982-1983.

J. R. Partington Prize: The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (Publishers of Ambix), 1982.

Medieval Academy of America Grant to study Arabic palaeography, 1980.

National Science Foundation Full Graduate Fellowship (three year tenure), 1978-1981.

B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1978.