How can humans understand the natural world? What is really there? How does it move? What are matter, energy, space, time, and light? What is life and how does it evolve? At St. John’s, students study physics, biology, and chemistry through books and experiments that help them face these difficult, basic questions and to see how they might be answered. The program ranges widely to explore quantum physics, relativity, and contemporary molecular biology.
Archimedes 鈥淥n the Equilibrium of Planes,鈥 鈥淥n Floating Bodies鈥
Aristotle Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachaen Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
Amedeo Avogadro "Essay on a Manner of Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies鈥
Claude Berthollet 鈥淓xcerpt from Essai de Statique Chimique鈥
Joseph Black 鈥淓xtracts from Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry鈥
Stanislao Cannizzaro 鈥淟etter to Professor S. De Luca鈥
John Dalton 鈥淓xtracts from A New System of Chemical Philosophy鈥
Hans Driesch 鈥淭he Science and Philosophy of the Organism鈥
Euclid Elements
Daniel Fahrenheit 鈥淭he Fahrenheit Scale鈥
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac 鈥淥n the Expansion of Gases by Heat,鈥 鈥淢emoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other鈥
William Harvey Motion of the Heart and Blood
Antoine Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry
Lucretius On the Nature of Things
Edme Mariotte Essays
Dmitri Mendeleev 鈥淭he Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements鈥
Nicomachus Arithmetic
Blaise Pascal Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
J.L. Proust 鈥淓xcerpt from Sur Les Oxidations Metalliques鈥
Ptolemy Almagest
Hans Spemann 鈥淭he Organizer-Effect in Embryonic Development鈥 (Nobel Lecture 1935), 鈥淓mbryonic Development and Induction鈥
J. J. Thomson 鈥淓xtracts from System of Chemistry鈥
Rudolf Virchow 鈥淐ellular Pathology Lectures鈥
Apollonius Conics
Aristotle De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
Francis Bacon Novum Organum
Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
Ren茅 Descartes Geometry, Discourse on Method
Johannes Kepler Astronomia Nova
Blaise Pascal Generation of Conic Sections
Ptolemy Almagest
Fran莽ois Vi猫te Introduction to the Analytical Art
Andr茅-Marie Amp猫re Essays
Daniel Bernoulli 鈥淥n the Vibrating String鈥
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 鈥淓xcerpts from Coulomb鈥檚 M茅moires sur l鈥櫭﹍ectricit茅 et le magn茅tisme鈥
Richard Dedekind Essay on the Theory of Numbers
Ren茅 Descartes Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Leonhard Euler 鈥淩emarks on the Preceding Papers by Mr. Bernoulli鈥
Michael Faraday 鈥淓xperimental Researches in Electricity鈥
Benjamin Franklin 鈥淓xcerpt from several letters to Peter Collinson on the nature of electricity鈥
Galileo Galilei Two New Sciences
William Gilbert 鈥淒e Magnete鈥
David Hume Treatise on Human Nature
Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Principles of Nature and Grace, Essays
James Clerk Maxwell 鈥淥n Faraday鈥檚 Lines of Force.鈥 鈥淥n Physical Lines of Force,鈥 鈥淎 Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field鈥
Isaac Newton Principia Mathematica
Jean-Antoine Nollet 鈥淥bservations on Several New Electrical Phenomena鈥
Hans Christian 脴rsted 鈥淓xperiments concerning the efficacy of electric conflict on the magnetic needle鈥
Brook Taylor 鈥淥n the motion of the stretched string鈥
Alessandro Volta 鈥淥n the Electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds鈥
Thomas Young 鈥淥n the Nature of Light and Colors鈥
Niels Bohr 鈥淥n the Spectrum of Hydrogen鈥
Theodor Boveri Essays
Louisde Broglie 鈥淢atter Waves鈥
Charles Darwin Origin of Species
Albert Einstein 鈥淩elativity,鈥 鈥淥n the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,鈥 鈥淥n the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light,鈥 鈥淭he Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity,鈥 鈥淒oes the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy Content?鈥
Michael Faraday 鈥淥n the Absolute Quantity of Electricity Associated with the Particles or Atoms of Matter鈥
Fran莽ois Jacob & Jacques Monod Essays
George Beadle & Edward Tatum Essays
G. H. Hardy 鈥淢endelian Proportions in a Mixed Population鈥
Georg Hegel Phenomenology of Mind
Werner Karl Heisenberg 鈥淐ritique of the Physical Concepts of the Particle Picture鈥
Edmund Husserl The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
James Watson & Francis Crick Essays
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 鈥淶oological Philosophy鈥
Nikolai Lobachevsky Theory of Parallels
Gregor Mendel 鈥淓xperiments with Plant Hybridization鈥
Robert Andrews Millikan 鈥淭he Electron鈥
Hermann Minkowski 鈥淪pace and Time鈥
Thomas Morgan 鈥淓volution and Genetics,鈥 鈥淭he Chromosomes and Mendel's Two Laws,鈥 鈥淭he Linkage Groups and the Chromosomes,鈥 鈥淪ex-Linked Inheritance,鈥 鈥淐rossing-Over鈥
Max Planck 鈥淭he Quantum Hypothesis鈥
Ernest Rutherford 鈥淭he Scattering of 伪 & 尾 Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom鈥
Erwin Schr枚dinger 鈥淔our Lectures of Wave Mechanics鈥擣irst Lecture鈥
Joel Sussman Essays
Walter Sutton Essays
J. J. Thomson 鈥淐athode Rays鈥
Albert Einstein Essays
Richard Feynman QED
Georg Hegel Philosophy of Nature
Konrad Lorenz Studies in Animal and Human Behavior
Bertrand Russell An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Computation
Computing Technology and Human Society
Neuroscience Mathematics and Natural Science
The information presented is for illustration purposes only and may not reflect the current reading list and preceptorial and study group offerings. Works listed are studied at one or both campuses, although not always in their entirety.
Published by The MIT Press, Peter Pesic鈥檚 new book Sounding Bodies completes a trilogy on the profound influence of music on the sciences. A long-time tutor at St. John鈥檚 College in Santa Fe, he is Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence.
911爆料网 tutor emeritus Bill Donahue (A67) has been awarded the 2022 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy.
Wiles's work requires careful analysis and a drive to learn about complex subjects quickly, and Wiles is adept at both. She credits these abilities, in part, to her time at St. John鈥檚.
Keith Flaherty (AGI22) is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Clinical Research at Massachusetts General Hospital鈥檚 Cancer Center, where he specializes in melanoma treatment. He attended Yale University as an undergraduate and John Hopkins for medical school.
Aayush Thapa (SF22) works in the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), a particle physics division of LANL, where he also completed his ARIEL internship in summer 2022. Working at one of the top scientific institutions in the country is in many ways its own reward, but Thapa also has other things he wishes to gain from this experience.
Shannon Hateley (SF07) is a computational biologist and senior staff scientist at Ancestry.
Every 20 years, a group of scientists鈥攊ncluding Johnnie alum Margaret Fleming (A04)鈥攇athers in the wee hours of the morning, rendezvous at a secret location on the Michigan State University campus, and digs up seeds that were originally buried 142 years ago
At his summer 2020 Hodson internship with NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), Austin Dumas (A21) frequently employed one of the quintessential skills students practice at St. John鈥檚: the ability to formulate questions.
Through the Hodson Trust Internship Program, Sanju Baral (A20) spent the summer working at Psychbigyaan Network Nepal (PNN), a youth-led organization focused on raising awareness about mental health and psychology.
A Hodson internship allowed Tbel Abuseridze (A20) to spend his summer working in astrophotography.
While her original plans for summer 2020 were postponed, Sandrina Mislitchi (SF22) used a Pathways Fellowship to study introductory statistical methods and applications at University of Chicago.
As he moves out of the Lab Director position, Santa Fe tutor Eric Poppele considers the unique gifts of the Lab Program.
Marilyn Roper was part of the United States effort to get the first man on the moon. Now, she leads St. John's-esque discussions for her faith community.
Cynthia Keppel Hellman (A84) will receive a 911爆料网 Award of Merit at this year's Homecoming.
Clayton 鈥淭ex鈥 Pasley (A11) is a recent recipient of the Powell Fellowship in Legal Services, an honor named for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. that supports legal services for low-income populations.
Stephen Forman (A70) is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors and a recent inductee into the Association of American Physicians. Here, he discusses how St. John鈥檚 is the perfect education for students seeking to advance in the medical field.
Josh Foster (SF97) decided to make a midlife career change and landed a position working with one of the world鈥檚 most respected institutions.
Michael Conway (SF94) and Jonathan Spooner (A96) have created a nonprofit educational training program for students entering the workforce.
For the first time since the Program鈥檚 science curriculum was adopted some four decades ago, source material for labs is available to students in Santa Fe in the form of spine-bound softcover books.
Though she began her education on a pre-med track, Emma Seba (SF20) soon discovered that the Program is what she鈥檇 been looking for all along.
Robin Burk (A72) recently gave a TEDx talk titled 鈥淐ountering Collapse of Our Interconnected, Interdependent World.鈥
Melanie Santiago-Mosier (A00) planned to go to the Naval Academy, but ended up on St. John鈥檚 campus. Now, she鈥檚 an award-winning member of the solar energy field.
In her speech to a new class of Graduate Institute students, Emily Langston explains the eternal appeal of Euclid to those starting the Program.
Students from St. John鈥檚 College in Annapolis were recognized this month as Most Outstanding Delegation at the Maryland Student Legislature鈥檚 annual session.
Akiva Katz (SF18), who鈥檚 in his third year as a lab assistant, organized a fundraiser to recognize tutor emeritus Bill Donahue鈥檚 contributions as director of labs.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
The St. John鈥檚 College Santa Fe Class of 2004 has raised $145,000 for a fully functional, surgical steel armillary sphere to be installed on campus.
St. John鈥檚 College visiting tutor Kathleen Longwaters recently won the University of Texas Austin鈥檚 highest graduate student award for her dissertation.
Anthony Vitto (A70) learned to love math and science at St. John鈥檚 College, and is now a teleneurologist in New England.
Jake Stief (SF20) completed a Pathways Fellowship last summer at Harvard.
Don Hitt (AGI06) was a commercial airline pilot before he enrolled in the St. John鈥檚 College Graduate Institute.
St. John鈥檚 College students in Santa Fe partnered with the Office of Personal and Professional Development to hold a computer coding camp on campus.
While most St. John鈥檚 College students spent the end of January bundled up against a mid-winter chill, one Johnnie was working on an outdoor education program with teens in Jamaica.
Joy Nwodo (SF19) spent a day with alumna Elizabeth Buchen (SF96) as part of the college鈥檚 job shadowing program.
Sophomore Yunju Park took part in the college鈥檚 job shadowing program last summer in Canada.
St. John鈥檚 in Annapolis was accepted recently into the Maryland Green Registry for its ongoing environmental efforts.
Ariel Winnick (SF11, EC12) is studying medicine at Ben-Gurion University鈥檚 Medical School for International Health in Israel.
The sixth and final lecture of the Summer Wednesday Night Lecture Series in Annapolis will take place July 26 and focus on the effects of digital technology on learning.
Students in Annapolis and Santa Fe this fall are participating in a new digital technology preceptorial.
Terrance (T.J.) Schaub (SF18) had a lot of support in landing his summer 2017 Ariel Internship with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Alumnus John Rees (A74) made a multi-year pledge to St. John鈥檚, which allows him and the college to plan ahead.
Mike Wu (SF07) founded his own consulting firm that works with government agencies, utility companies and others to secure their power grids.
A gift of modern biology equipment catapults Santa Fe鈥檚 senior lab program well into the 21st century.
Efforts are underway to build quantum optics laboratories at the St. John鈥檚 College campuses in Annapolis and Santa Fe.
Recent 911爆料网 graduate Mason Troupe (A18) is using a $10,000 grant from Projects for Peace to help a medical clinic expand in Gambia.
Ethologist Meghan Lockard (SF07) is working toward her PhD and conducting nematode worm research at The Rockefeller University in New York.
Dr. Justin Cetas (SF93) is an accomplished neurosurgeon and educator in the Pacific Northwest.
Former St. John鈥檚 student Richard Babicz (SF09) has done a little bit of everything since he graduated. Now he鈥檚 nearing the end of medical school.
The Mellon Foundation Study Group on Digital Technology is working to determine whether digital technology has a place in the St. John鈥檚 curriculum.
Owen Morgan (A17) studied at the Blumenfeld Lab at the Yale Neuroscience Imaging Center.
St. John鈥檚 College alumna Sarah Schoedinger (A92) is the senior program manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration鈥檚 Office of Education.
Michelle Urban (SF08) is CEO of Albuquerque-based Pressure Analysis Company (PAC), which designs and manufactures wireless technology to track head injuries in athletes.
Marybeth Beydler (A16), St. John鈥檚 student and spring intern at CERN, spoke about the alumni network at the college.
The St. John’s Environmental Club is devoted to creating awareness on campus about issues relating to protection, conservation, preservation, and restoration—with an emphasis on educating and empowering students.
St. John鈥檚 College graduate Krisin Hoch (SF16) spent her summer studying the cosmos as part of the Ariel Internship Program.
Andrea Hill (A16) studied chimpanzee eating habits at the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC.
St. John鈥檚 College alumnus Ethan Goddard (A14) is now a commercial project manager for a solar company in Maryland.
Alumna Sophie Stauffer (SF12) recently completed post-master鈥檚 work at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is set to begin a new job with the New Mexico Environment Department.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
When St. John鈥檚 College junior Catherine Baldwin interned at the NASA History Program Office last summer, it provided her with a connection to the hit movie 鈥淗idden Figures.鈥
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
During his Hodson summer internship, St. John鈥檚 student Tri Nguyen (A17) went from novice in the lab to performing his own experiments.
St. John鈥檚 College alumnus Tai Ragan (SF15) is set to begin a new job at NASA.
The program focused on helping train search-and-rescue dogs at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center in Philadelphia.
Julia Leone (A12) recently was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to continue her work in conservation biology.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
Andrew Mize (A12) is聽a quality engineer聽specialist聽at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the company鈥檚 largest motor vehicle manufacturing plant.
St. John鈥檚 College alumnus Matt Carver learned a lot in Annapolis, but he says the ability to push his own limits was among the most important lessons.鈥
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
Four St. John鈥檚 College alumni who went on to prominent careers in math and science gave advice to students during the Alumni in Science Panel on the Annapolis campus.
St. John鈥檚 College alum David Hysong (AGI11) has been named one of Forbes magazine鈥檚 鈥30 Under 30鈥 for his efforts in cancer therapy development.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
St. John鈥檚 College alum Dr. Stephen Forman was part of a group that received national attention at the 128th Rose Parade in California.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
Erinn Woodside applied and started at the Graduate Institute at St. John鈥檚 College while still an active duty officer in the US Air Force.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
The Hodson and Ariel Internship Programs support Johnnies who want to pursue internships that would otherwise be unpaid.
