Brooke, John Hedley

  1. Person
  2. 1944
  3. Male
    1. John Hedley Brooke obtained his degree in the Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1965 and a PhD in the history of Chemistry from the same institution in 1969. He was a Tutorial fellow at the University of Sussex from 1968-1969. He then taught in Lancaster University for twenty-five years, until 1999. J. H. Brooke was Clifford lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1995 to 1996 and then he assumed the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2007. Immediately afterwards, he became an Emeritus Fellow of Harris Manchester College and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study in the University of Durham. J. H. Brooke has written three monographs on science and religion and co-edited three others on the same subject. He has written several articles in journals and he was the editor of the British Journal for the History of Science from 1989-93. He was also the president of the British Society for the History of Science from 1996–98, and has been the president of Science and Religion Forum since 2006. He is also currently the president of International Society for Science and Religion ⟶ Click Here