Joseph E. Harmon

In 1993, I invited Alan Gross, professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota and author of "The Rhetoric of Science" (Harvard University Press, 1990), to give a talk at Argonne National Laboratory. The lunch that followed that talk was the beginning of a long scholarly collaboration whose mission is to better understand the nature and history of scientific communication, beginning with that watershed event, the nearly simultaneous invention of the scientific periodical in Paris and London in the middle of the seventeenth century. We estimated a book on the subject should take us two years, three max...Nine years later, "Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present" (Oxford University Press, 2002) hit the streets. Now, over two decades after that lunchtime discussion, our fifth book together, "The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities," has been published. More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/jharmonink.