Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (October 19, 1930 – March 29, 1994) was a historian specializing in

Isaac Newton's occult studies English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton produced works exploring chronology, and biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse), and alchemy. Some of this could be considered occult. Newton's scientific work may have been of l ...

. Her works include ''The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy, or the Hunting of the Green Lyon'', ''Alchemical Death and Resurrection'', and ''The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought''. She was a professor of history at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

from 1991 to 1994. In 1997, she was awarded posthumously with the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society.

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Betty Jo Dobbs Papers
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Special Collections Dept.
University Library, University of California, Davis 1930 births 1994 deaths American historians of science American women historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers Newton scholars University of California, Davis faculty {{US-sci-historian-stub