Dr. Robert Fox (born 7 October 1938)[1]MA,DPhil,FSAFRHistS is a leading British authority on the history of science. He is interested in the history of sciences and technology in Europe from the 18th century onwards. He has published extensively. His book The Savant and the State examines science,culture and politics in France between 1814 and 1914,[2] while Science without Frontiers examines developments from the late nineteenth-century until the Second World War.[3] In 2015,Fox received the George Sarton Medal,the premier award of the international History of Science Society (HSS).[4] He was recognized as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France's Ministry of Culture in 2006.[5]
Robert Fox taught at the University of Lancaster between 1966 and 1988,first as a lecturer and later as professor of the History of Science.[8]
Between 1986 and 1988,Fox was director of research at the Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques (CRHST) at the Citédes sciences et de l'industrie in Paris,and assistant director of the Science Museum,London.[8]
Fox was the first organizer of the annual Thomas Harriot Lectures at Oriel College,Oxford. He has edited two volumes based on the lecture series:Thomas Harriot. An Elizabethan Man of Science (2000)[10] and Thomas Harriot and His World. Mathematics,Exploration,and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England (2012).[11]
Fox, Robert; Guagnini, Anna (1999). Laboratories, workshops, and sites: concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800–1914 (1sted.). Berkeley, CA: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California. ISBN978-0967261706.
Buchwald, Jed Z.; Fox, Robert, eds. (2013). The Oxford handbook of the history of physics (1sted.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780199696253.
Fox, Robert; Gooday, Graeme, eds. (2005). Physics in Oxford, 1839–1939 laboratories, learning, and college life (1sted.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198567929.
Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Fox, Robert; Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (1997). Pierre-Simon LaPlace: 1749–1827: a life in exact science (2nded.). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN9780691011851.
Fox, Robert (1995). Science, industry, and the social order in post-revolutionary France. Aldershot: Variorum. ISBN9780860784814.
Fox, Robert, ed. (1998). Technological change: methods and themes in the history of technology (2nded.). Amsterdam: Harwood. ISBN9783718657926.
Fox, Robert (2016). Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940. Oregon State University Press. ISBN9780870718670.[24][25]
↑ Johnson, Jeffrey Allan (February 2019). "review of Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940 by Robert Fox". The American Historical Review. 124 (1): 326–328. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy464.
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President of the European Society for the History of Science 2003–2006
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