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James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine – June 17, 1975 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time (1946).[1] He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship (1933).[2]

  1. ^ Baxter, James Phinney (1946). Scientists against time. ISBN 9780598553881. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. ^ Baxter, James Phinney (2001). The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. ISBN 9781557502186. Retrieved 24 June 2015.

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