Contents The Department Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 2 Staff and affiliates .................................................................................................................... 3 Visitors and students ................................................................................................................ 4 Comings and goings................................................................................................................. 5 Roles and responsibilities......................................................................................................... 6 Prizes, projects and honours..................................................................................................... 7 Seminars and special lectures...................................................................................................8 Students Student statistics..................................................................................................................... 10 Part II dissertation titles ......................................................................................................... 11 Part II primary sources essay titles......................................................................................... 12 MPhil essay and dissertation titles ......................................................................................... 15 PhD theses.............................................................................................................................. 18 Transferable skills .................................................................................................................. 19 The Library Annual report of the Whipple Library ................................................................................... 21 The Museum Annual report of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science ........................................ 24 Individuals Individual reports of members of the Department ................................................................. 34 Seminar Programmes Michaelmas Term 2002.......................................................................................................... 81 Lent Term 2003...................................................................................................................... 87 Easter Term 2003 ................................................................................................................... 93 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH Telephone: 01223 334500 Fax: 01223 334554 www.hps.cam.ac.uk The Department Introduction Welcome to another Annual Report. With many comings and goings, people on leave, new research grants, and maximum student numbers (again), it was another action-packed year in HPS. During the early part of 2003, the Department concentrated on preparing for a General Board Standard Review, which is part of the University’s Quality Assurance measures. The Review Committee visited the Department on 8 May 2003 and met a cross-section of the Department. The overall impression gained was of ‘a cohesive community working in a creative and imaginative way to take the subject area forward. [The Committee] recognised that the Department had made a considerable impact on the development of the discipline of history and philosophy of science at an international level by fostering the research interests of its staff and allowing them to be reflected in a dynamic and open form of teaching.’ We are proud to say that our submission documents have been retained and will be used as ‘a model of good practice’ by other departments and faculties. We are very grateful to everyone who took part in the review, even though the graduate students came across as being so deliriously happy that they made the Review Committee a bit suspicious! One of the most exciting things to happen in 2003 was that we were given permission from the University to take over the use of the Porter’s Lodge on the corner of Free School Lane, when it fell vacant. This will provide the Department with four offices, a small teaching room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a walled courtyard garden. We were absolutely thrilled with this result, as it will solve our immediate space needs. However, we are still in negotiations with the City Council Planning Office over the conditions of use for the space and, unfortunately, it is unlikely that we will be able to take up occupancy before the early part of 2004. The year 2003 was the 50th anniversary of the proposal, by James Watson and Francis Crick, of the double helical structure of DNA and one of the many events marking the occasion, and attracting a lot of media interest, was an exhibition in the Whipple Museum, ‘Representations of the Double Helix’, curated by Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga. The exhibition follows the image of the double helix from its first appearances in scientific papers to its uses today as a cultural icon, and is on display until the end of the year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Nancy Buchdahl for the gift of a large collection of important books from the library of the late Gerd Buchdahl, together with manuscript materials relating to his work on Kantian topics. The cataloguing of this material has been completed, and the manuscripts and annotated volumes are kept together as a special collection and listed on the Whipple Library’s website and in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34A (2003), a special issue in memory of Gerd Buchdahl. A final thank you goes to everyone who has contributed to this Annual Report, and hence to the lively atmosphere of the Department! 2 Staff and affiliates Administrative Staff Dr Deborah Thom Dr Silvia De Renzi Ms Tamara Hug Dr Frances Willmoth Dr Nick Dew Mr Steven Kruse Dr David Dewhirst Mr David Thompson Research Fellows Dr Thomas Dixon Dr Helen Blackman Dr Matthew Donald Computing Staff Dr Andrew Cunningham Dr Aileen Fyfe Mr Mark Rogers Dr Cathy Gere Dr Faye Getz Dr Harmke Kamminga Dr Jeremy Gray Library Staff Dr Neil Manson Dr Ole Grell Mrs Sonia Hollins Dr Richard Noakes Prof Mary Hesse Ms Dawn Moutrey Dr Jutta Schickore Dr Dominick Jenkins Dr Jill Whitelock Dr Nick Wilding Mr Peter Jones Dr Sarah Wilmot Prof Geoffrey Lloyd Museum Staff Mr Scott Mandelbrote Ms Corrina Bower College Fellows Dr Joan Mason Mrs Monica Elsey Dr Jim Endersby Prof Stephen Mason Mrs Elizabeth Hart Dr Anandi Hattiangadi Dr James Moore Mr Boris Jardine Dr Annette Imhausen Dr Onora O’Neill Ms Lisa Newble Dr Mary Leng Prof Dorothy Porter Dr Sanjoy Mahajan Dr Lisbet Rausing Teaching Officers Dr Adam Mosley Prof Michael Redhead Prof John Forrester Dr Michela Massimi Dr Katinka Ridderbos Dr Sarah Hodges Dr Sophie Page Prof Martin Rudwick Dr Nick Hopwood Dr Richard Serjeantson Prof Colin A. Russell Prof Nick Jardine Dr Sujit Sivasundaram Dr Christine Salazar Dr Lauren Kassell Dr Karin Tybjerg Dr Max Satchell Dr Martin Kusch Dr Anne Secord Dr Tim Lewens Affiliated Scholars Dr Richard Smith Prof Peter Lipton Dr Jan Abram Dr Emma Spary Dr John McMillan Dr Robert Anderson Prof Paul Teller Dr Simon Schaffer Dr Debby Banham Dr Jon Topham Dr Jim Secord Dr Andrew Barry Dr John van Wyhe Dr Liba Taub Dr Robert Bud Dr Andrew Wear Prof Andrew Bowie Dr Paul White Affiliated Lecturers Dr Michael Bravo Dr Eli Zahar Dr Soraya de Chadarevian Dr Nader El-Bizri Dr Patricia Fara Dr Janet Browne Supervisors Dr Marina Frasca-Spada Dr Jeremy Butterfield Ms Gill Hudson Dr Richard Jennings Dr David Chart Dr Chris Lewis Dr Sachiko Kusukawa Dr Harry Collins Dr Sarah Pennell Dr Ilina Singh Dr Serafina Cuomo Mr Nick Tosh 3 Visitors and students Visiting Scholars Arash Pessian Sarah Davis Dr John Burnham Meredith Price Jessica Eccles Dr Laura Chazaro Sadiah Qureshi Lauren Ellery Dr Silvia Manzo Robert Ralley Felicity Fitzgerald Dr Jaume Navarro Jason Rampelt Frances Gardiner Prof Edmund Russell Torben Rees Michelle Gowans Dr Bert Nederbragt Ayako Sakurai Matthew Harding Prof Margaret Schabas Mark Sprevak Nick Hodsdon Ruth Horry Visiting Students MPhil students Jill Howard Ms Sharrona Pearl Charlie Anson Jenny Jopson Ms Christina Rampelt Adam Braddock Katy Joubert Angela Breitenbach Melanie Keene PhD students Stefan Brenner Tom Kerswill Katherine Angel Edwina Casebow Ben Koppelman Lorenzo Bernasconi Nate Foster Georgia Ladbury Michael Bresalier Paul Kalanithi Ros Lawley Tatjana Buklijas Natalie Kaoukji Joe Mayhew Victoria Carroll Amir Karbasi Chris Morton Emir Chen Constantina Alex Mulligan Ben Cockayne Kapetanyannis Lizzy O’Hara Katrina Dean Vera Keller Menka Parekh Tamas Demeter Sarah Palestrant Nick Rabey Kemal De Soysa Francis Reid Cat Riddell Jenny Downes Anthony Rodriguez Leon Rocha Katie Eagleton Jeff Skopek Yali Sassoon Gregory Fried Koen Vermeir Adam Schaffer Susan Gamble Andy Souyave Axel Gelfert NST Part II students Adam Toon William Grundy Isabelle Adams Ali Tse Ben Irvine Josephine Armstrong Sam Warshaw Stephen John Charlotte Bathe Clementine Webb Jeff Kochan Andrea Binfor Caroline Westerlund John Latsis James Bryce Katie de Wit Christina McLeish Becky Burton Michael Michael Doug Cannie MVST Part II students Helen Macdonald Tom Chacko Janis Ferns Anna Mayer Ben Coghill Aneil Malhotra Ayesha Nathoo Rod Cooke Charlotte Mance 4 Comings and goings Jon Agar starts a three-year Temporary Lectureship in History of Modern Science in October 2003,