Joel A. Klein, Ph.D.

Joel A. Klein, Ph.D., stewards the history of medicine and pre-1800 science collections at The Huntington. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Indiana University and has had postdoctoral positions at Columbia University and the Science History Institute. Klein studies the history of early-modern medicine and science with a focus on the intersections among medicine, chemistry, and matter theory in 17th-century Germany. He is writing the book Chymical Life in Early-Modern Europe, and he works on several digital projects, including “The Chymistry of Isaac Newton.”