'James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine – June 17, 1975 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time (1946).[1] He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship (1933).[2]'
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Popular at Harvard, Mr. Baxter left reluctantly to head Williams, founded in 1793, as its 10th president. He took leave in World War If to, among other things, recruit academic personnel for the Office of Strategic Services and to serve as historian for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In the nineteen‐fifties, he was a member of the Gaither Commission, which studied the cold war.
Although Mr. Baxter published few books, he wrote extensively for history and law journals and was a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Affairs.'
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