Becoming Darwin: History, Memory, and Biography

Janet Browne is Aramont professor of the History of Science at Harvard University where she teaches the history of biology, including the history of evolutionary theory. Her interests range widely over the life sciences, botany, the history of gardens, collecting, expeditions, museums, and natural history. She has been at Harvard since 2006 and is currently chair of the History of Science Department. Previously she taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London and was an associate editor of the early volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin in Cambridge UK. She has been editor of the British Journal for the History of Science and President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2002 she completed a two-volume biography of Charles Darwin that integrated Darwin’s science with his life and times. She is vice-president of the History of Science Society and Chair-Elect of the Section on History and Philosophy of Science, AAAS.

Lecture Schedule

November 3, 2015, 4:30pm

Economist of Nature

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November 5, 2015, 4:30pm

Stories of a Scientific Life

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November 10, 2015, 4:30pm

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