Simon Schaffer
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Simon Schaffer at a pub in Cambridge, UK (2015)
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1 January 1955 Southampton |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge Imperial College London University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., Ph.D.) Harvard University |
| Thesis | Newtonian cosmology and the steady state (1980) |
| Notable awards | Erasmus Prize (2005); Sarton Medal (2013) |
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Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge and was until recently editor of The British Journal for the History of Science.
Schaffer was born in Southampton in 1955, but his family moved to Brisbane in Australia the same year, returning to the UK in 1965 to live in Brighton. His father Bernard was an academic social scientist who was a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex from 1966 until his death in 1984; Simon's mother Sheila, who died in 2010, was a university librarian and Labour councillor who was Mayor of Brighton in 1995.He is Jewish.
Schaffer attended Varndean Grammar School for Boys in Brighton before studying Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, specialising in the history and philosophy of science in his final year. While at Trinity, he captained the winning college team in the 1974 University Challenge. After completing his BA, Schaffer went to Harvard University for a year as a Kennedy Scholar to study history of science. Schaffer returned to Cambridge in 1976 and gained his PhD in 1980 with the thesis Newtonian cosmology and the steady state.
Schaffer has taught at Imperial College London and the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1985, Schaffer has been a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
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