Margaret Candee Jacob (born 1943) is an American historian of science and Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA.
She was hired as faculty at Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1971 and received tenure four years later.
Jacob was appointed professor of history at the New School for Social Research in 1985 and simultaneously became dean of its Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts until 1988.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and co-authored a textbook on Western Civilization that has gone through five editions.
"Best known for her studies of Isaac Newton and the development of Western scientific thought, Jacob has also written about the politics of writing history.