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 ........................................................................... 14 PhD Theses.................................................................................................................. 17 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 ............................ 23 INDIVIDUALS Individual Reports of the Members of the Department............................................... 29 SEMINAR PROGRAMMES 2000-01 Michaelmas Term 2000............................................................................................... 65 Lent Term 2001........................................................................................................... 71 Easter Term 2001 ........................................................................................................ 77 The Department Introduction The academical year 2000-2001 was another bumper year for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student and staff numbers have grown steadily and the Department is now bigger than ever (and desperate for additional space). We had record numbers of HPS Part II students this year. 70 students applied for 35 places and in the end 41 students were admitted to the course. The year represented a culmination of years of study for many of the Department’s PhD students with a record number of 13 PhD degrees being awarded during the course of the year. However, 14 new PhD students will be starting in 2001-2002, so PhD numbers should remain constant! The 2001 Research Assessment Exercise concentrated our thoughts for much of the early part of the year. A submission was made at the end of March 2001 and results should be available in December 2001. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our submission. If you would like to have a look at what was sent in for assessment, a printout is available in the Office. Congratulations to John Forrester, who was given a Personal Professorship from 1 October 2000, and also to Jim Secord and Martin Kusch, who were given Personal Readerships from October 2000. Teaching Officer numbers continue to grow: Lauren Kassell took up a new post as University Assistant Lecturer in History of Medicine in October 2000; the Department was lucky enough to receive a new lectureship in Bioethics (the appointment to start in October 2002); Nick Hopwood and Martin Kusch were successful in obtaining research leave fellowships starting in October 2001 and Sarah Hodges and David Corfield were appointed as their temporary replacements. In 2000-2001 a IB external examiner was appointed for the first time: our thanks to Professor David Edgerton for taking the time to chart this new territory and for doing a wonderful job. Great things have happened in the Whipple Museum this year. As part of the government funded collections access project, new cases have been installed in the former teaching gallery, which is now known as ‘discover’. The cases are stunning and congratulations to the museum team for putting in hours of dedicated work that have made such a difference. We are all looking forward to the completion of the final phase of the project, which will result in a new gallery being made of the museum store – the result being ultimate open access storage. Next time you are in the Department in the afternoon with a few minutes to spare make sure you visit ‘discover’. On a less grand note, we are pleased that the HPS kitchen has been completely refurbished at last and is very bright and sunny, with yellow tiles and a dishwasher. Thanks to Tamara for masterminding this project, alongside everything else. If you are a regular user of GITS, the Graduate IT Suite, you will notice a big difference next term as we have replaced all the old Macintosh computers with fast, robust G4s – thanks Mark! Finally, our thanks to ALL members of the Department, whose continued effort makes HPS such a fun, lively and stimulating place to be. 2 Staff and Affiliates 2000-01 Administrative Staff Affiliated Lecturers Prof Geoffrey Lloyd Ms Angela Culver Dr S de Chadarevian Mr Scott Mandelbrote Ms Tamara Hug Dr Patricia Fara Prof Stephen Mason Ms Dawn Moutrey Dr M Frasca-Spada Dr Joan Mason Mr David Thompson Dr Richard Jennings Dr James Moore Dr Sachiko Kusukawa Dr Constantine Pagonis Computing Staff Dr Sandu Popescu Mr Steve Ison Research Fellows Dr Dorothy Porter Mrs Mel Leggatt Dr Andrew Cunningham Dr Matthew Ratcliffe Mr Mark Rogers Dr Mark Hogarth Prof Martin Rudwick Dr Harmke Kamminga Prof Colin A. Russell Cleaning Staff Dr Christine Salazar Mr Brian Rowley College Fellows Dr Max Satchell Mrs Tania Leeds Dr Anjan Chakravartty Ms Anne Secord Ms Anandi Hattiangadi Dr Otto Sibum Library Staff Dr Tim Lewens Dr Ilina Singh Ms Joanna Ball Dr Neil Manson Dr William Smeaton Mrs Sonia Hollins Dr Adam Mosley Dr Richard Smith Mr John Huggett Ms Sophie Page Dr Emma Spary Mrs Claire Jordan Ms Katinka Ridderbos Prof Paul Teller Ms Sam Weston Smith Mr Greg Radick Dr Jon Topham Dr Jill Whitelock Dr Richard Serjeantson Prof Gerard Turner Mr Stephen Snobelen Dr Andrew Wear Museum Staff Dr Karin Tybjerg Dr Paul White Ms Corrina Bower Dr Frances Willmoth Mrs Elizabeth Hart Affiliated Scholars Prof Elie Zahar Mr Boris Jardine Dr Robert Anderson Mr Dale Johnston Dr Debbie Banham Supervisors Ms Toni Parker Dr Emm Barnes Mr Janke Dittmer Ms Catriona West Dr Andrew Barry Ms Gill Hudson Dr German Berrios Dr Chris Lewis Teaching Officers Prof Andrew Bowie Dr Patrick Wallis Prof John Forrester Dr Michael Bravo Dr Nick Hopwood Dr Nader El-Bizri Prof Nick Jardine Dr Janet Browne Dr Lauren Kassell Dr Jeremy Butterfield Dr Martin Kusch Dr David Chart Prof Peter Lipton Dr Sophia Connell Dr Simon Schaffer Dr Harry Collins Dr Jim Secord Dr David Dewhirst Dr Liba Taub Dr Thomas Dixon Dr Matthew Donald Emeritus Staff Dr Aileen Fyfe Dr Roger French Dr Jeremy Gray Prof Mary Hesse Dr Ole Grell Prof Michael Redhead Dr John Henderson Mr Peter Jones Associate Lecturer Dr Lisbet Koerner Dr Deborah Thom 3 Visitors and Students 2000-01 Visiting Scholars Christopher Haley Fiona Coutinho Dr Jon Arrizabalaga Anandi Hattiangadi Armand David Dr Davida Charney Rina Knoeff Tania Elias Dr Dan Christensen Jeff Kochan Simon Fisherly Dr Herman de Regt Gerald Kutcher Sam Hart Dr Peter Farago Timothy Lewens Sharon Hart Dr Alvaro Giron Ilaria Lo Tufo Richard Humes Prof Paul E Griffith Helen Macdonald Elizabeth Jones Dr Anna Guagnini Anna-Katherina Mayer Nick Kennedy Dr Sarah Jansen Adam Mosley Emer Larkin Crone Dr Maija Kallinen Greg Radick Vicki Leverett Dr Pawel Kawalec Mike Rich Graeme Ludlow Dr Javier Moscoso Eugenia Roldàn-Vera Tom Lumbers Dr Mariko Ogawa Sujit Sivasundaram Anthony Molyneux Dr Philip Rehbock Stephen Snobelen Hannah Oag Dr Dmitri Saprykin John Tresch David Owen Dr B Subbarayappa Joerg Tuske Tom Phillips Prof Paul Teller Karin Tybjerg Ben Please Dr Anke to Heesen Wen-Ji Wang Alexandra Pledge Sarah Punshon Visiting Students MPhil Students Benet Reid Peter Asaro Michael Bresalier Natalie Ryan Hjalmar Fors Vicky Carroll Arif Saad Karen Haugland Ben Cockayne James Southwood Lydia Jaeger Carolyn Day Aideen Silke Jonas Larsson Andreas Demetriades Alison Spark Javier Lezaun Christy Ferguson Clare Sproston Havard Nilsen Axel Gelfert Mary Summers Donald Opitz Rebecca McLeod Rachael Tait Steve Ruskin Michael Michael Oliver Thomson Paul Miller Mark Tregear PhD Students Ayesha Nathoo Thomas Walker Charlotte Bigg Arash Pessian Karen Wood Anjan Chakravartty Greta Petersen Lucy Yates Emir Chen Aimie Purser Rachel Cooper Sadiah Qureshi MVST Part II Students Lucia Dacome Rob Ralley Iona Coltart Katrina Dean Torben Rees Mark Swindells Talal Debs Tamas Demeter NST Part II Students Kemal de Soysa Lucy Algeo Jennifer Downes Nicholas Alton Jim Endersby Emma Bain Kate Fletcher Parvinder Bassi Gregory Fried Oliver Boney Susan Gamble Chris Branson Catherina Gere Iain Carroll 4 Comings and Goings After working for more than two years as the Whipple Librarian, Joanna Ball left us in January 2001 to take up the post of Sub-Librarian at