Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science explained

The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair at the University of Oxford. The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist Richard Dawkins by an endowment from Charles Simonyi.[1] The aim of the Professorship is 'to communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understanding'. It is a position that had been endowed by Charles Simonyi with the express intention that the holder "be expected to make important contributions to the public understanding of some scientific field",[2] and that its first holder should be Richard Dawkins.[3]

History

Richard Dawkins explained the history of the creation of the chair in a chapter of his memoirs, .[4] In 2008, Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was elected to the chair.[5] [6]

List of Simonyi Professors

List of Simonyi Lectures

Richard Dawkins established an annual "Charles Simonyi Lecture" at the University of Oxford. He invited the following speakers:[7] [8]

Marcus du Sautoy, second Simonyi Professor, invited:[8]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/aims/charles-simonyis-manifesto.html Charles Simonyi's manifesto
  2. Web site: Manifesto for the Simonyi Professorship . 13 March 2008 . Simonyi, Charles . Charles Simonyi . 15 May 1995 . The University of Oxford. https://web.archive.org/web/20080423211123/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/aims/manifesto.shtml . 23 April 2008. dead.
  3. Web site: Aims of the Simonyi Professorship . 23 April 2008 . 28 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423211118/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/aims/index.shtml . 23 April 2008 . dead . dmy-all .
  4. [Richard Dawkins]
  5. Web site: The Current Simonyi Professor: Richard Dawkins . 2008-03-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100526165723/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/previous-holders-simonyi-professorship/professor-richard-dawkins . 26 May 2010 . The University of Oxford . dead . dmy-all.
  6. Web site: Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science . 2008-03-29 . Richard Dawkins . RichardDawkins.net.
  7. [Richard Dawkins]
  8. http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/simonyi-lectures.html The Simonyi Lectures

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