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Simon Schaffer
Schaffer at a pub in Cambridge, UK, 2015
Born
(1955-01-01) 1 January 1955 (age 69)
Southampton
Education
Varndean Grammar School for Boys
Alma mater
University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) Harvard University
Awards
Erasmus Prize (2005)
Sarton Medal (2013)
Dan David Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge Imperial College London University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis
Newtonian cosmology and the steady state(1980)
Website
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/schaffer
Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955)[1] is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.[2]
^"Schaffer, Simon, 1955-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^"Past editors' favourite papers published during their time in office". The British Journal for the History of Science. 50 (2): 173–179. June 2017. doi:10.1017/S0007087417000061. ISSN 0007-0874. PMID 28438228.
Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of...
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University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U192968 SimonSchaffer (2019), "Ideas Embodied in Metal", The Whipple Museum of the History...
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Enlightenment" In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Nicholas Boyle and SimonSchaffer (10 February 2000). "Works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe". Zeno.org...
lecture. It was during this period that Babbage tried to enter politics. SimonSchaffer writes that his views of the 1830s included disestablishment of the...
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Steven Shapin and SimonSchaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life...
1146/annurev.so.21.080195.001445. S2CID 3395517. Historical sociologist SimonSchaffer and Steven Shapin are interviewed on SSK The Sociology of Ignorance...
from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2013. Shapin, S.; SimonSchaffer (1989). Leviathan and the Air Pump. Princeton University Press. pp. 235–256...
Science Part A 30(1): 113–129. STS Wiki WTMC Wiki Historical sociologist SimonSchaffer is interviewed on SSK Historical sociologist Steven Shapin is interviewed...
at Wikimedia Commons Astronomy & Empire, BBC Radio 4 discussion with SimonSchaffer, Kristen Lippincott & Allan Chapman (In Our Time, May 4, 2006) Bibliothèque...
Priestley's work on "airs" is not easily classified. As historian of science SimonSchaffer writes, it "has been seen as a branch of physics, or chemistry, or natural...
Electricity – Jim Al-Khalili BBC Horizon Electrickery, BBC Radio 4 discussion with SimonSchaffer, Patricia Fara & Iwan Morus (In Our Time, November 4, 2004)...
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David F. Noble Shobita Parthasarathy Trevor Pinch Sal Restivo Arie Rip SimonSchaffer Johan Schot Bernard Stiegler Lucy Suchman Helen Verran Judy Wajcman...
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Rees (2019–present) Charlotte Sleigh (2014-2019) Jon Agar (2009-2014) SimonSchaffer (2004-2009) Crosbie Smith (2000-2004) Janet Browne (1994-2000) John...
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