Dr John van Wyhe

John van Wyhe is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online, a Bye-Fellow of Christ's College (Darwin's own college) and a member of the British Society for the History of Science. His research ranges across Darwin's life and work, often focusing on refuting some of the myths and legends about Darwin- such as 'Darwin's 20 year delay', the legend that Darwin discovered evolution in the Galapagos and Darwin's views on the origins of life.
Van Wyhe is publishing three books and numerous shorter items on Darwin for 2009: an edited volume of Darwin's shorter publications (250 in all), Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle and an illustrated book on Darwin and evolution which contains many facsimile documents, Darwin:

In addition to editing Darwin Online, the largest collection of Darwin's writings ever published, van Wyhe edits the most complete list of Darwin's publications and papers.
Van Wyhe is also leading the restoration of Darwin's Christ's College rooms, written a booklet on Darwin's time in Cambridge (forthcoming 2009) and contributing to a proposed iconography of Darwin.
Dr van Wyhe is committed to sharing Darwin's work, scholarship and the history of science with the wider public. He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin and the history of science around the world. See Press.

A lecture tour of North America in March - April 2009 is currently being organized. Invitations are still being considered. See lecture list below.

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Contact: Email: jmv21@cam.ac.uk ; Post: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK

(For interview enquiries contact Tom Kirk of the Press Office: Tel: 01223 766205, Mob: 07764 161923 Or +44 (0)1223 765276; Email: tdk25@admin.cam.ac.uk)

John van Wyhe lectures 2009

Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883

5-6 Feb. 2009 Natural History Museum, Milan.
9 Feb. University of St Andrews.
13 Feb. 2009 Winchester Discovery Centre.
22 Feb. National History Museum of Denmark.
28 March 2009 Ramsbottom Lecture, Society for the History of Natural History, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
30 March 2009 Boston University.
2-3 April 2009 American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago.
4 April 2009 Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Denver, Colorado.
April 2009 Western Michigan University.
9 April 2009 Oklahoma University.
11 April 2009 Huntingdon Library, Los Angeles.
16 April University of Cincinnati.
17 April Cincinnati.
16 May 2009 'Darwin's London' Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons & Grant Museum of Zoology.
24 July 2009 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
26 Sept. 2009 Cambridge Library Group.
Oct.-Nov. 2009 Argentina and Chile, South America.

Selected publications

Professional Activities

2005-	Editorial Board of Centaurus. Life member of the Biological Society, University of Cambridge. Bye-Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge. Member of Regents House, University of Cambridge.
2005-8	Director of the Wheeler Library of the British Society for the History of Science. Editor of the British Society for the History of Science Monograph series. Member of Council and Trustee of the British Society for the History of Science.
2005	Visiting Associate Professor, History of Ideas Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
2003-5	Research Fellow, Correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace Project, Open University.
2002-	Founder and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin online (formerly The writings of Charles Darwin on the web)
2001-2002 2001-	Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore. Editor of the Science section of the Victorian Web. Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History & Philosophy of Science Cambridge.
1999-	Member of Cambridge Historical Society.
1999-2000	Organizer of the Pan-historical Methods seminar, Cambridge University. (An interdisciplinary seminar for the presentation of specific historical research to a general historian audience.)

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