Matthew Norton Wise (born 1940) is an American historian of science who is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Wise was a physics professor at Auburn University and Oregon State University before becoming a history professor at UCLA and then, from 1991 to 2000, at Princeton, before returning to UCLA, where he remained until his retirement.

He famously attacked Gross and Levitt's book in which they perceive the obstruction of science by the academic left.

[1] In 2004/5 he taught at Utrecht University and also spent much of his time at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.

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