Jack Morrell

Jack Morrell (* 1933 ) is a British historian of science.

He was a Lecturer and Reader in History of Science at the University of Bradford from 1964 to 1994 .

In 1970 he was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1987 Supernumerary Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford University. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow. From 1992 he was visiting professor at the University of Leeds.

He dealt specifically with British history of science (Oxford University, British Association for the Advancement of Science ), history of scientific institutions and history of geology, including a biography of geologist John Phillips .

In 2007 he received the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal . From 1978 to 1982 he was Vice President and 1982 President of the British Society for the History of Science . In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

Fonts

• John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
• Science at Oxford, 1914-1939: Transforming an Arts University, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967, 1997
• Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750-1870, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997
• Edited with I. Inkster: Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780–1850, London: Hutchinson, 1983
• with Arnold W. Thackray: Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981
• Editor with AW Thackray: Gentlemen of Science: Early Correspondence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Historical Society, Camden Series, vol. 30, 1984

Web links

• Portrait at Leeds University