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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. Staffan Müller-Wille. Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. I was trained in the sciences (Geology/Palaeontology) and moved into the History and Philosophy of Science

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. 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. BBS options. Students taking NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences can now choose History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) as their Major Subject. Alternatively, BBS

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremy Schneider. Fellow of Trinity College. PhD, Princeton University. Email: js2897@cam.ac.uk. Jeremy Robin Schneider is a historian of early modern science. He received his PhD from

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zhiyu Chen. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Mary Augusta Brazelton. Thesis topic: Translocal Geography: The Selden Map and Cross-Cultural Knowledge

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Aditya Jha. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Neil Dewar. Thesis topic: What is Temperature, Really? Email: akj31@cam.ac.uk. Research interests. Foundations of

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. Xinyi Wen. Research Project. The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice. Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 221115. A walnut looks like the brain, so it can heal brain

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. casebook.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. 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. Monte Cairns. PhD student. College: Peterhouse. Supervisor: Stephen John  Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topics: Values in science, scientific classification, public health science.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Janna Müller. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Of planets, stars and something in between: a conceptual analysis of asteroids in the first half of

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Kay Simpson. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Chromotherapy in British design and medicine, 1870–1950. Department of History and Philosophy of

14 Jul 2024: Detection of endogenous magnetic nanoparticles with a TMR sensor. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS A, 368: Art.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dmitriy Myelnikov. Teaching Associate. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially genetics, molecular biology, microbiology;

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marina Frasca-Spada. College Fellow. Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Thomas Banbury. PhD student. College: Selwyn College. Supervisors: Prof Dániel Margócsy and Prof Liba Taub. Advisor: Dr Philippa Carter. Thesis topic: Toxic Atmospheres in English

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Katy Duncan. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930). Research interests:

15 Jul 2024: Collectively, these findings indicate that naked mole-rats possess a robust and hard-to-penetrate gastrointestinal barrier, that is resistant to environmental and endogenous irritants.

15 Jul 2024: Single-molecule analysis of endogenous β-actin mRNA trafficking reveals a mechanism for compartmentalized mRNA localization in axons.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Yijie Huang. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy (advisor). Thesis title: The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Mitton. College Fellow. Life Fellow, St Edmund's College. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow Geological Society of London; Fellow Royal Historical Society. Member

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nuno Miguel Oliveira. PhD student. College: Christ's. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Luminous Cold War: military patronage as a forgotten driver of bioluminescence science.

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. Obituary: Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton (9 October 1954 – 25 November 2007). Peter Lipton, the first Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Benjamin Chin-Yee. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Stephen John. Thesis topic. My thesis focuses on the philosophy of cancer medicine, specifically

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theo Di Castri. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Dr. Helen Anne Curry. Thesis Topic: History of prevention science, 1960-present. Research interests: Risk; prevention; history

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. Grace Field. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Jeremy Butterfield. Thesis topic: Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning.