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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 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 Sir Richard Evans FBA

History; Central Europe

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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

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