Janet Browne
Elizabeth Janet Browne (born March 30, 1950 ) is a British historian of science specializing in biology and evolution. She is known as the biographer of Charles Darwin .
Browne is the daughter of Douglas Bell (1914-1993) and Elizabeth Edelstein. She has been married to Nicholas Browne since 1972 and has two daughters.
She studied zoology at Trinity College in Dublin with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and at Imperial College London with a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in the history of science in 1978 (published as The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography 1983). She then spent a long time at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London . She has been the Aramont Professor of History of Science at Harvard University since 2006 .
Browne was instrumental in the Cambridge University project to organize and publish Darwin's correspondence.
In 1995 she published the first volume and in 2004 the second volume of her Darwin biography, which received the Pfizer Prize in 2004 . It also received the 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the WH Heinemann Prize of the Royal Literary Society . Her biography shows, among other things, how Darwin found comrades-in-arms through his extensive correspondence and established his theory.
In 2008 Browne was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2010 to both the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy , and in 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin .
She was editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. She is President of the History of Science Society (2016).
She re-edited various works by Charles Darwin and was involved in editing the correspondence of John Tyndall . With Desmond and Moore, she wrote the entry on Darwin in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Fonts
- Charles Darwin: Voyaging, London: Jonathan Cape 1995, Princeton UP 1996
- Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, London: Jonathan Cape 2002, Paperback Princeton UP 2007
- Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography. Atlantic Books, London, 2006
- with Adrian Desmond , James R. Moore : Darwin (Very Interesting People), Oxford UP 2007
- The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography, Yale University Press, 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Janet Browne. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 22, 2018 (English, with short biography).
- ^ Fellows: Professor Janet Browne. British Academy, accessed May 22, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Browne, Janet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Browne, Elizabeth Janet (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1950 |