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18 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

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.

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge Global Food Security. An Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Professor John Carr. Professor Carr investigates how virus infection influences interactions of plants with other organisms and

18 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

18 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

18 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.

18 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.

18 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

18 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.

18 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

18 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.

18 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.