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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/browne.html

Current post

Harvard University Aramont Professor of the History of Science

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mark Crinson FBA

Architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in relation to empire, industrialisation, and the welfare state. Also, the historiography of architectural history and its interdisciplinary connections

Mark Crinson FBA

Professor David Edgerton FBA

Global history of technology, science and production; political and economic history of the United Kingdom; history of warfare and militarism, including the economic and technological history of war; history of invention, innovation and research policy, especially in the United Kingdom

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Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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