Thomas Vargish

Thomas Vargish
Born(1939-02-13)February 13, 1939
DiedSeptember 2023(2023-09-00) (aged 84)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1972)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish literature
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Thomas Vargish (February 13, 1939 – September 2023) was an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Biography

Vargish was born on February 13, 1939, in Granville, New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother, Stephan Vargish, was also a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of Gothenburg, and the United States Air Force Academy.

Vargish earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction. He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook, father of political strategist Robby Mook.

Vargish died on September 2023, at the age of 84.

References

  1. ↑ Vargish, Thomas (March 1980). "Why the person sitting next to you hates limits to growth". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 16 (3): 179–189. doi:10.1016/0040-1625(80)90030-X.
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  7. ↑ Graham, Robert B. (May 1972). "Faculty". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Thomas Vargish". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  9. ↑ Chell, Samuel L (Winter 1987). "Thomas Vargish, 'The Providential Aesthetic in Victorian Fiction': with response by THOMAS VARGISH with response by SAMUEL CHELL (Book Review)". Clio. 16 (2): 183. ProQuest 1300286980.
  10. ↑ Mook, Delo E.; Vargish, Thomas; Taylor, Edwin F. (September 1989). "Inside Relativity". Physics Today. 42 (9): 90. Bibcode:1989PhT....42i..90M. doi:10.1063/1.2811153.
  11. ↑ Farmelo, Graham. "They connect". New Scientist. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Intellectual Athlete | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | October 1980". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | The Complete Archive. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Obituaries". Rhodes Trust. Retrieved October 15, 2026.