Paul Boyer
Paul Boyer was born in 1935 and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. As a young man raised as a Mennonite, he was a conscientious objector and served for two years in UNESCO’s International Voluntary Work Camps. He received his AB, MA, and PhD from Harvard.
In 1967 he became a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, then moved to UW-Madison, where he remained until he retired from teaching in 2002. He died at age 76 from cancer. He published numerous works, but his most influential were ...
