Professor Peter Bowler FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Peter J. Bowler is Professor emeritus of the History of Science at Queen's University, Belfast. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was President of the British Society for the History of Science from 2003 to 2005. He has an M.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (King's College), an M.Sc. in Philosophy and the Theory of Sciences from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Toronto. Before moving to Queen's University, Belfast in 1979 he taught at the Universities of Toronto and Winnipeg and at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has published extensively on the development and impact of the theory of evolution, focusing especially on the role played by theories other than Darwinian natural selection. More recently he has worked on the relationship between science and religion and on twentieth-century British popular science. His latest work is on twentieth-century speculations about the future development of science and technology, combining a long-standing interest in science fiction with his knowledge of the popular science literature.
Current post
Queen's University Belfast Professor Emeritus of the History of Science
Past appointments
Queen's University Belfast Professor of the History of Science, Queen's University, Belfast
1992 -
Queen's University Belfast Professor of the History of Science, Queen's University, Belfast
1992 -
Other Foreign Institutions Assistant Professor in History, University of Winnipeg
1975 - 1979
Other Foreign Institutions Assistant in Humanities, University ains Malaysia, Penang
1972 - 1975
Publications
The Non-Darwinian Revolution
Peter Bowler - Published in 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Janet Browne FBA
History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science
Professor Patricia Clavin FBA
The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression
Professor Julian Jackson FBA
Political Studies History of a specific country France Modern History Western Europe France
