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Research projects overview Naming Species in the South Pacific Digitising Philippine Flora Colonial Natures Natural History in the Age of Revolutions In the Shadow of the Tree The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby Culture at the Macro-Scale Histories of Artificial Intelligence From Collection to Cultivation How Collections End Tools in Materials Research Epsilon Contingency in the History and Philosophy of Science Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University FlyBase The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science From Hansa to Lufthansa Medical Publishers and Obscenity Law Kinds of Intelligence Varieties of Social Knowledge The Vesalius Census Histories of Biodiversity and Agriculture Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments Before HIV The Casebooks Project Generation to Reproduction The Darwin Correspondence Project

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Dr Jimin Choi

Dr Jimin Choi

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
Zhilin Chu

Zhilin Chu

  • PhD Student
Costanza Coloni

Costanza Coloni

  • PhD Student
Dr Helen Anne Curry

Dr Helen Anne Curry

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Cameron Dashwood

Cameron Dashwood

  • PhD Student
Dr Jaco de Swart

Dr Jaco de Swart

  • Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Rosanna Dent

Dr Rosanna Dent

  • Lipton Lecturer in Recent History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Dr Katherine Duncan

  • Affiliated Scholar
Professor Nader El-Bizri

Professor Nader El-Bizri

  • Affiliated Scholar
Dr Ahmad Elabbar

Dr Ahmad Elabbar

  • Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology

Rhianna Elliott

  • PhD Student
Dr Harriet  Fagerberg

Dr Harriet Fagerberg

  • Assistant Professor (Hatton Lecturer) in Philosophy of Life Sciences
Dr Seb Falk

Dr Seb Falk

  • College Fellow

Dr Patricia Fara

  • Affiliated Scholar
Dr Matt Farr

Dr Matt Farr

  • Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy of Physics
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