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 has focused on refuting the long-held belief in 'Darwin's 20 year delay', the origins of the legend that Darwin discovered evolution from the finches while in the Galapagos, and more recently 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 (more than 250 in all), a co-edited volume of Darwin's Beagle notebooks, and an accessible illustrated book on Darwin and evolution.
Van Wyhe edits the most complete bibliographical list of Darwin's publications ever published.
Van Wyhe is also researching other aspects of Darwin's life and work including his time in Cambridge, helping to restore Darwin's college rooms and contributing to an iconography of Darwin.
Dr van Wyhe is committed to sharing Darwin's work, Darwin scholarship and 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.

Contact
Email: jmv21@cam.ac.uk
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK
Fax: (44) (0)1223 765276

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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.
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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