Marie Boas Hall FBA (October 18, 1919 – February 23, 2009) was an American historian of science and is considered one of the postwar period pioneers of the study of the Scientific Revolution during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Her thesis covered the mechanical philosophy of Robert Boyle and was published in the history of science journal Osiris in 1952.
In 1957 she returned to the University of California, Los Angeles; and in 1959 Hall, whose first marriage had ended in divorce, joined her there and they were married.
In 1963 they were invited back to London, to Imperial College, where Hall became the first professor of the history of science and she senior lecturer.
[5] She won the George Sarton Medal, the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society, together with her husband Alfred Rupert Hall in 1981.