Professor Martin Rudwick FBA

History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
History

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

1998 -

University of California Professor Emeritus of History

1998 -

University of California, San Diego Professor of History

1987 - 1998

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Professor Ordinarius of History and Social Aspects of the Natural Sciences

1974 - 1980

University of Cambridge University Lecturer in [successively] Geology, and History of Science

1965 - 1974

University of Cambridge University Demonstrator, Department of Geology

1955 - 1959

Publications

Worlds before Adam 2008

Earth's Deep History 2014

Georges Cuvier 1997

Scenes from Deep Time 1992

The New Science of Geology 2004 Ashgate Variorum series

Lyell and Darwin Geologists 2005 Ashgate Variorum series

The Meaning of Fossils 1972

The Great Devonian Controversy 1985

Bursting the Limits of Time 2005

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Valerie Kivelson FBA

Early modern Russian history, history of cartography, empire, visuality, and witchcraft, with interests in politics, gender, and religion in Russia and in comparative perspective

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Professor Jeremy Adelman FBA

Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.

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Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA

Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories

Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA (credit Swiss Radio and Television Service)

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