Sandra Herbert née Swanson (born April 10, 1942 in Chicago) [1] is an American historian of science with an international reputation as an expert on Charles Darwin. [2] The Geological Society of London awarded her the 2020 Sue Tyler Friedman Medal. [3]
Sandra Lynn Swanson's father was an accountant [1] and both her grandfathers worked at Chicago steel mills. [4] She graduated in 1963 with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studied from Wittenberg University. At Brandeis University, she graduated in the History of Ideas with an M.A. in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1968. [5] Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled The Logic of Darwin's Discovery. [6] In 1966 she married James Charles Herbert (born 1941), who received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Brandeis University and became an education executive. Sandra and James Herbert have two daughters. [1] She became a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and retired in 2009 as professor emerita. [7]
Sandra Herbert was from 2007 to 2008 a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. [8] From February 2012 to February 2013 she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. [9]
Her 2005 book Charles Darwin, Geologist has become the basic reference for Darwin's research on geology. [10] In 2006 the book won the Geological Society of America's Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Award, [5] the History of Science Society's Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, the American Historical Association's George L. Mosse Prize, and the Albion Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. [11]
In 2007 Sandra Herbert organized and led an expedition to the Galápagos Islands. [12] There she and her colleagues in July 2007 on Isla Santiago located igneous rocks similar to the samples collected by Darwin. Thereby they gained a better understanding of how Darwin's field observations in geology are related to his research published in Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands (1844). [13]
She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1982–1983. [14] In 2006 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [15] She is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [16]
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Sandra Herbert née Swanson (born April 10, 1942 in Chicago) [1] is an American historian of science with an international reputation as an expert on Charles Darwin. [2] The Geological Society of London awarded her the 2020 Sue Tyler Friedman Medal. [3]
Sandra Lynn Swanson's father was an accountant [1] and both her grandfathers worked at Chicago steel mills. [4] She graduated in 1963 with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studied from Wittenberg University. At Brandeis University, she graduated in the History of Ideas with an M.A. in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1968. [5] Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled The Logic of Darwin's Discovery. [6] In 1966 she married James Charles Herbert (born 1941), who received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Brandeis University and became an education executive. Sandra and James Herbert have two daughters. [1] She became a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and retired in 2009 as professor emerita. [7]
Sandra Herbert was from 2007 to 2008 a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. [8] From February 2012 to February 2013 she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. [9]
Her 2005 book Charles Darwin, Geologist has become the basic reference for Darwin's research on geology. [10] In 2006 the book won the Geological Society of America's Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Award, [5] the History of Science Society's Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, the American Historical Association's George L. Mosse Prize, and the Albion Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. [11]
In 2007 Sandra Herbert organized and led an expedition to the Galápagos Islands. [12] There she and her colleagues in July 2007 on Isla Santiago located igneous rocks similar to the samples collected by Darwin. Thereby they gained a better understanding of how Darwin's field observations in geology are related to his research published in Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands (1844). [13]
She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1982–1983. [14] In 2006 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [15] She is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [16]
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