James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (born 1893)

James Phinney Baxter III

American historian (1893–1975)

James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time (1946). He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship (1933).