Susan Faye Cannon

Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon (October 15, 1925, Durham, North Carolina – November 6, 1981, Washington, D.C.), was an American historian of science, physicist, and Smithsonian Institution curator.

Career In 1947, Cannon gained a bachelor's degree in physics at Princeton University. Turning to the history of science, she earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1956, with a dissertation on uniformity and progression in early Victorian cosmography. She founded and was the first editor of the Smithsonian Journal of History.

Works "The Problem of Miracles in the 1830s", Victorian Studies 4 (1960), 5–32. "The Uniformitarian-Catastrophist Debate," Isis 51 (1960) 38–55. "The Impact of Uniformitarianism: Two Letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836–37," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105 (1961) 310–14. "John Herschel and the Idea of Science," Journal of the History of Ideas, 22 (1961), 215–39. "Scientists and Broad Churchmen: An Early Victorian Intellectual Network", Journal of British Studies 4 (1964): 65–88. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period, 1978. . Winner, 1979 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society.