James R. Moore
James Richard Moore , also Jim Moore, (* 1947 ) is a British historian of science, best known for a biography of Charles Darwin , which he co- authored with Adrian Desmond , and for publications on the history of evolution .
He is a professor at the Open University and researches at Cambridge University .
In 1991 the Darwin biography appeared. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize , the Comisso Italian Prize for Biography, the Watson Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society, and the Dingle Prize from the British Society for the History of Science . He published a shorter Darwin biography with Desmond and Janet Browne .
With Adrian Desmond and Janet Browne he wrote the entry on Darwin in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
He also deals with the history of natural theology in the 19th century and the relationship between science and religion.
Fonts
- with Adrian Desmond: Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist , London: Joseph 1991
- German edition: Darwin, Rowohlt 1994
- with Janet Browne, Adrian Desmond: Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People) , 2007
- German translation: Charles Darwin: in a nutshell, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2008
- with Adrian Desmond: Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery, and the Quest for Human Origins , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
- The Darwin Legend , Baker Books 1994
- The Post-Darwinian Controversies. A study of the Protestant struggle to come to terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America 1870–1900 , Cambridge University Press 1979
Web links
- Website at the Open University
- Literature by and about James R. Moore in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, James R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, James Richard; Moore, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |