Simon Schaffer
Simon Schaffer | |
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Schaffer at a pub in Cambridge, 2015 | |
| Born | 1 January 1955 |
| Education | Varndean Grammar School for Boys |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) Harvard University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge Imperial College London University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Newtonian cosmology and the steady state (1980) |
| Website | www |
Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.