GARLAND E. ALLEN is Professor of Biology Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, former coeditor of the Journal of the History of Biology, and past president of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. In addition to writing Life Science in the Twentieth Century (1975) and Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science (1978), he has coauthored several introductory biology textbooks.
THEODORE ARABATZIS is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (2006), and coeditor (with Vasso Kindi) of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited (2012).
RICHARD W. BURKHARDT JR. is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His publications include The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology (1977) and Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology (2005).
LESLEY B. CORMACK is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. She is also president of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and first vice president of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of History of Science and Technology. She is the author of Charting an Empire: Geography at Oxford and Cambridge, 1580–1620 (1997) and coauthor of A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility (2004).
DAVID J. DEPEW is Professor of Communication Studies and Rhetoric of Inquiry Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He is coauthor with Bruce H. Weber of Darwinism Evolving: System Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection (1996) and with the late Marjorie Grene of Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History (2004). He is currently working with John P. Jackson on a book tentatively titled Darwinism, Democracy, and Race in the American Century.
PATRICIA FARA is the Senior Tutor of Clare College Cambridge and the author of the prize-winning book Science: A 4000 Year History (2009), which has been translated into nine languages. Her numerous other publications include Newton: The Making of Genius (2002) and Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2004).
KOSTAS GAVROGLU is Professor of History of Science in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens. He is the coauthor with Ana Simões of Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry (2012) and the editor of The History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Aspects (2014).
MICHAEL D. GORDIN is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. He is editor of several volumes and the author of five books, including A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (2004), The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (2012), and Scientific Babel: How Science was Done Before and After Global English (2015).
PETER HARRISON is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Research Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia. From 2006 to 2011 he served as the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He has published a number of books on the historical relations between science and religion, the most recent of which is The Territories of Science and Religion (2015), based on his Gifford Lectures.
JOHN L. HEILBRON is Professor of History and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley; senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford; and visiting professor at Yale University and the California Institute of Technology. He remains active in retirement near Oxford, as evidenced by his recent books, Galileo (2010) and, with Finn Aaserud, Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr’s Trilogy of 1913 Revisited (2013).
KOSTAS KAMPOURAKIS is a researcher in science education at the University of Geneva. He is the editor in chief of the international journal Science & Education and of the book series Science: Philosophy, History and Education, published by Springer. He is also the author of Understanding Evolution (2014) and the editor of The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators (2013).
MICHAEL N. KEAS is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the College at Southwestern in Fort Worth, Texas. He has recently published a number of essays that contribute to his forthcoming book, Everything Since Kepler, which explores pivotal episodes and enduring issues in the history and philosophy of science and religion since Johannes Kepler (1571–1630).
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (2011) and coeditor, with Robert A. Nye, of Scientific Masculinities (2015).
JULIE NEWELL is Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at Southern Polytechnic State University, a member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, and past Chair of the History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Her research focuses on “Geology and the Emergence of Science as a Profession in the United States.”
MANSOOR NIAZ is a Professor of Science Education at Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela. He has published over 150 articles in international refereed journals and eight books, including, Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise (2009) and From “Science in the Making” to Understanding the Nature of Science (2012).
RONALD L. NUMBERS is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at University of Wisconsin–Madison and past president of both the History of Science Society and the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. He has served as editor of Isis (1989–1993) and as coeditor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (expanded ed., 2006) and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (2009), which has been translated into eight languages.
KATHRYN M. OLESKO is Associate Professor of the History of Science at Georgetown University. She writes on science education, measuring practices, and the development of science and engineering in Prussia in the early modern and modern periods. She is the author of Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Koenigsberg Seminar for Physics (1991) and the past editor of Osiris (12 volumes).
LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE is Drew Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, teaches in the Departments of the History of Science and Technology and of Chemistry, and serves as director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe. He specializes in early modern science, particularly alchemy. His numerous publications include The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2011) and The Secrets of Alchemy (2013).
PETER J. RAMBERG is Professor of the History of Science at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where he teaches history and philosophy of science and organic chemistry. His research concerns the intellectual and institutional context of chemistry in the nineteenth century. The author of Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914 (2003), he is currently writing a biography of the German chemist Johannes Wislicenus (1835–1902).
ROBERT J. RICHARDS is Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science at the University of Chicago, where he is a professor in the Departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology, and a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. He also directs the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. His primary areas of research are German Romanticism and the history of evolutionary theory. He is the author of several books, including Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (1987), which won the Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society; The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (2002); and The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (2008).
DAVID W. RUDGE is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Mallinson Institute for Science Education at Western Michigan University. He has written numerous articles—from the perspectives of history, philosophy, and science education—on H. B. D. Kettlewell’s classic investigations of natural selection using the peppered moth, Biston betularia.
JOHN L. RUDOLPH is Professor of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds affiliate appointments in the Departments of History of Science and Educational Policy Studies. The author of Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of Science Education (2002), he currently serves as editor in chief of the international journal Science Education.
NICOLAAS RUPKE recently retired from the Chair of the History of Science at Göttingen University and now holds the Johnson Professorship of History and Leadership Studies at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Trained in both geology and the history of science, he has written several books, including The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1983), Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin (1994), and Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (2008). He is currently writing a book about non-Darwinian traditions in evolutionary biology.
MICHAEL RUSE is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. A prolific author, he has written or edited numerous books, including most recently The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (2013) and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought (2013). With his long-time historical nemesis Robert J. Richards he is coauthoring a book called Debating Darwin.
MICHAEL H. SHANK teaches the history of science before Newton at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has been since 1988. He is the author of “Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand:” Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna (1988), the editor of The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2000), and the coeditor of the second volume of The Cambridge History of Science: Medieval Science (2013). He is currently completing a study of the fifteenth-century German astronomer Regiomontanus.
ADAM R. SHAPIRO is Lecturer in Intellectual and Cultural History at Birkbeck–University of London. He is the author of Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools (2013). He is currently working on two forthcoming books: one on “William Paley and the Evolution of the Natural Theology Movement”; the other on a previously unknown pre-Scopes evolution trial, in Nebraska in 1924.
BRUNO J. STRASSER is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Geneva and Adjunct Professor of the History of Medicine at Yale University. He has written numerous articles on the history of medicine and molecular biology, both in history and in science journals. His first book, La Fabrique d’une Nouvelle Science: La Biologie Moléculaire à l’Age Atomique, 1945–1964 (2006), won the Henry E. Sigerest Prize from the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is currently finishing his second book, on the history of big-data biology.
DANIEL P. THURS graduated with a PhD in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since that time, he has worked at a number of institutions, including Cornell, Oregon State University, the University of Portland, New York University, and, most recently, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His first book, Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture (2007), explored changing meanings of science during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current research focuses on the rhetorical relationships between science and fear.