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14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Edwin Rose. AHRC Early Career Research Fellow. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History. Edwin Rose is currently Principal Investigator on the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Applying for research grants and post-doctoral fellowships. HPS has internal mechanisms for scrutinising research grant applications that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. All

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Vesalius Census. The Vesalius Census provides a world-wide descriptive census of the first major illustrated atlas of anatomy. We are documenting every known surviving copy of the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936. 1 March 2016 to 31 August 2019. This Leverhulme and Newton Trust funded project examines the practices of collecting, display and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jia Yu. PhD student. College: Lucy Cavendish. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton, Jim Secord (advisor). Thesis topic: Early twentieth century periodicals and natural histories in modern China.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philippa Carter. University Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Health before 1800. Philippa Carter is a historian of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (c.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice. Advice. In this section:. Some basic strategies to help demystify the process of writing. Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. Learning strategies and exam

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II. Part II. The Part II course in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) gives students an insight into the historical development of science, medicine and technology. It addresses

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seb Falk. College Fellow. Fellow, Girton College. Email: sldf2@cam.ac.uk. Research interests: History of astronomy, late medieval sciences, scientific instruments and history of the book

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Chia-Li (Leo) Chu. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Harvesting Diversity: Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Transformation of the Green Revolution,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniel Ott. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Nosology of chronic pain: technological innovation catalyzing novel disease categorization.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Niall Roe. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Pragmatism and the growth of concepts. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming an Affiliate. Process. Submit an application to your sponsor (a member of staff in HPS). The sponsor forwards the application form (if they accept it) to

15 Jul 2024: Toxicology research in the Unit impacts on major areas of socioeconomic importance, namely drug development and diseases that result from exposure to both endogenous toxic agents and environmental hazards.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Funding for postgraduate students. Some options for obtaining funding are given on this page. See Cambridge Funding Search for details of other awards that are available. We recommend

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power. The University of Cambridge is hosting a Mellon Sawyer Seminar entitled 'Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power' from May 2020

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. Students in history and philosophy of science and medicine write substantial, focused and independent

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student representation. Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee is a forum for discussion of matters directly affecting students. The Department finds that obtaining feedback from

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Angela V. Gui. PhD student. College: Corpus Christi. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood. Contact me: vag27@cam.ac.uk. My research focuses on lung disease epidemics in twentieth

15 Jul 2024: October issue with an accompanying News and Views highlight. First demonstration of the global effects and targeting efficacy of endogenous miRNA on gene expression in plants.

23 Feb 2024: Key Research Questions. How do cells distinguish pathogenic viral nucleic acids from non-pathogenic endogenous nucleic acids? ... Pathogenic viral and non-pathogenic endogenous nucleic acids are often difficult to distinguish.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Our MPhil (Master of Philosophy) provides students with an unparalleled

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hasok Chang. Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Head of Department. Research interests. History and philosophy of chemistry and physics from the 18th century

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Jardine. Emeritus Professor. Research interests: Historiography of the sciences; early-modern cosmology; history of natural history; philosophy of the sciences. Nick Jardine was the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hitesh Pant. PhD student. College: Selwyn. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Historical perspectives on crop diversity and food security. Department of History and Philosophy of

14 Jul 2024: 2022). 2022.04.16.488542. (doi: 10.1101/2022.04.16.488542). Towards targeted post-translational modification of endogenous proteins in complex environments.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Harry Law. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Thesis topic: Bell Labs and the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Amelia Urry. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Co-supervisor: Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Centre, Cambridge). Thesis topic: Sensing oceans, mapping ice: a

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge in Germanic Lands and Beyond, 1300–2018. How do you get from one end of the globe to the other, and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lewis Bremner. Teaching Associate. I study the recent history of science, technology, and medicine, with a focus on East Asia. I am particularly interested in scientific and technological

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Patricia Fara. Emeritus Fellow, Clare College. Research interests. Eighteenth-century natural philosophy; cultural history of science. Selected publications. Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Isaac Kean. PhD student. Supervisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis: "Real Patterns in Economics". I work on conceptual issues in economics. Broadly, my motivating question is "in what way, if

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. embyos.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. L. Joanne Green. PhD student. College: Girton. Supervisor: Jim Secord, advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis topic: The British entomological community, 1870–1920: gender, empire, networks.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Syd Rosen. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Celebrity science and the cybernetic vanguard. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Joshua Nall. Director and Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Joshua Nall joined the Whipple Museum as Curator of Modern Sciences in 2013, having previously completed his

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Liba Taub. Professor Emerita. Director of Research, Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Research interests: History of scientific instruments and the preservation of material

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Use of Turnitin UK. This page explains how the text-matching software Turnitin UK is used by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. It also explains the implications for

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments in the Whipple Museum Collection. Since its foundation in 1951 the Department's Whipple Museum has pioneered research into fake scientific

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timothy Sim. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton. Advisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: The history of dengue fever in Singapore after 1965. Thesis summary: From

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sonia Wigh. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Sonia Wigh is a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Costanza Coloni. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Approximate truths: the conventionalist import into scientific realism. Department of History and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Damon Kutzin. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: An analysis and development of Michael Polanyi's scientific realism. Department of History and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniela Sclavo. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Conservation and flavour: the case of chile (Capsicum spp). Conservation efforts in Mexico from the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Medical Publishers, Obscenity Law and the Business of Sexual Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Britain's production of books on all branches of medicine, including volumes that described

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dr. M.A. Diamond-Hunter. Teaching Associate. I am a philosopher of science whose current research programme is concerned with how uses of socially-salient and socially important concepts

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Phillip Hintikka Kieval. PhD student. College: Hughes Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Advisor: Hasok Chang. My current research broadly concerns the epistemological and moral significance

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Darwin Correspondence Project. The Darwin Correspondence Project was an independently funded research team, jointly managed by Cambridge University Library and the American Council of

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tools in Materials Research. The science of materials has contributed to changes in our civilization as pervasive as they are profound. The ways we travel, communicate, build buildings,