Philip J. Pauly

Philip Joseph Pauly (September 3, 1950 – April 2, 2008) was an American historian of science known for his work on the history of biology in the United States.

A professor at Rutgers University, he published three books: Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology; Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey; and Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America.

His final book was honored with the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award in 2009.

For his scholarship, historian Jane Maienschien praised Pauly for his "way of seeing the larger picture".

Pauly married Michele Helen Bogart on July 23, 1981,[4] with whom he had one son, Nicholas.