Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara | |
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 Fara in 2018 | |
| Known for | Women in science |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History of science |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Patricia Fara is a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College, Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her PhD at the University of London.[1] She is a former Fellow of Darwin College and is an Emerita Fellow of Clare College, where she was previously Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.[2] Fara was also a College Teaching Officer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.[3] From 2016 to 2018, Fara was President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2016, she became President of the Antiquarian Horological Society.[4][5] Fara is author of numerous popular books on the history of science and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's science and history discussion series In Our Time.[6]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Fara began her career as a physics teacher but returned to graduate studies as a mature student to specialise in History and Philosophy of Science, completing her PhD thesis at Imperial College, London, in 1993.[7][8]
Research and writing
[edit | edit source]Her areas of particular academic interest include the role of portraiture and art in the history of science, science in 18th-century England during the Enlightenment, and the role of women in science. She has written about numerous women in science, mathematics, engineering and medicine, including: Hertha Ayrton, Lady Helen Gleichen, Mona Chalmers Watson, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Isabel Emslie Hutton, Flora Murray, Ida Maclean, Marie Stopes, and Martha Annie Whiteley.[7][9][10][11][12] Fara has argued for expanded access to childcare as a means of increasing the retention of women in science.[4] She has written and co-authored a number of books for children on science. Fara is also a reviewer of books on history of science.[13] She has written the award-winning Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009)[14][15] and Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity (2012).[16] Her most recent book is A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2017).[17][18][19] In 2013, Fara published an article in the journal Nature, stressing the fact that biographies of female scientists perpetuate stereotypes.[20]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2011: Dingle Prize, British Society for the History of Science for Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009)[14]
- 2022: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics[21]
Bibliography
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- Fara, Patricia (2002) An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment Icon Books
- Fara, Patricia (2002) Newton: The Making of Genius Pan-MacMillan
- Fara, Patricia (2002) Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science. Totem Books.
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- Fara, Patricia (2004) Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment Pimlico Books
- Fara, Patricia (2005) Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment Icon Books
- Fara, Patricia (2009) Science: A Four Thousand Year History Oxford University Press
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- Fara, Patricia (2021) Life After Gravity: Isacc Newton's London Career Oxford University Press
Broadcasts
[edit | edit source]- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Ada Lovelace", 6 March 2008
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Vitalism", 28 October 2008.
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Baconian Science", 2 April 2009.
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Calculus", 24 September 2009
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Women and Enlightenment Science", 4 November 2010.
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Robert Hooke", 18 February 2016.
- BBC Radio 4 The Forum "Marie Curie - A Pioneering Life", 19 August 2017
- BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Rosalind Franklin", 22 February 2018
- BBC Radio 4 Science Stories "Madame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen", 21 August 2019.
References
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- ^ a b Fara, Patricia (2009) Science: A Four Thousand Year History Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ Ferry, Georgina (2009) 'Under the Microscope' The Guardian 25 April 2009 Retrieved 16 August 2010
- ^ Fara, Patricia (2012) Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity Oxford: Oxford University Press
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- Living people
- 20th-century British historians
- 20th-century British women writers
- 21st-century British historians
- 21st-century British women writers
- Alumni of Imperial College London
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- British historians of science
- British women historians
- Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge