Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born May 8, 1952 in

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) is an American

Assyriologist Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at

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. She is best known for her work on the history of

Babylonian astronomy Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. Babylonian astronomy seemed to have focused on a select group of stars and constellations known as Ziqpu stars. These constellations ...

. She graduated from the

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, and the

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with a Ph.D. She taught at the

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Awards

*2010 Research Professorship Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich *2008 Member,

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*2007 Member, Princeton,

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, School of Historical Studies *2006 Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford *2004 Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside *1999 John Frederick Lewis Award for Babylonian Horoscopes (American Philosophical Society, 1998) *1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship *1982-1987 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship

Works

* * * *
Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
'' University of Chicago Press. 2016.

Novels

References

External links

"Francesca Rochberg", ''Google Scholar''
1952 births Living people Educators from Philadelphia American women educators American Assyriologists University of Pennsylvania alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty MacArthur Fellows University of Chicago alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford 21st-century American women {{US-scholar-stub Assyriologists