Dr John van Wyhe

John van Wyhe is a historian of science, currently based 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. Van Wyhe's recent research has challenged the long-held view that Darwin held back or kept his theory secret for 20 years (Darwin's delay).
Van Wyhe is publishing three books and numerous shorter items on Darwin for 2009: Darwin's shorter publications, Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle, a booklet on Darwin in Cambridge and an accessible biography: Darwin. [This book is currently sold out but a reprint will be available in early July]

Van Wyhe has also led the restoration of Darwin's Christ's College rooms [click here to see the restoration in progress and here to see their final appearance as photographed by Allison Maletz] (open Feb. - Nov. 2009) and contributing to a proposed iconography of Darwin.
Dr van Wyhe is committed to sharing Darwin's work, scholarship and the history of science with the wider public. He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, evolution and the history of science around the world. See Press for various interviews and podcasts.

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Contact: Email: jmv21@cam.ac.uk ; Post: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK

John van Wyhe lectures 2009

5-6 Feb. Natural History Museum, Milan.
9 Feb. University of St Andrews.
12 Feb. Christ's College, Cambridge.
13 Feb. Winchester Discovery Centre.
22 Feb. National History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
12 March Clare College Research Symposium 2009.
28 March Ramsbottom Lecture, Society for the History of Natural History, National Museum of Wales.

Charles Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle

30 March Boston University, Massachusetts.
1 April Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio.
3 April American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago.
4 April Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Colorado.
8 April University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Wisconsin.
9 April Oklahoma University.
10 April Huntingdon Library, Los Angeles, California.
16 April University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
17 April Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati.
20 April Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
21 April Mid-Maine Global Forum, Waterville, Maine.
6 May Cambridge University atheist & agnostic society, Cambridge Union.
16 May 'Darwin's London' Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons & Grant Museum of Zoology.
22 May University of Birmingham.
13 June Cambridge Local Girton Association.

John van Wyhe, Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883

22 June National University of Singapore.
24 June Willi Hennig Society Meeting, Singapore Botanic Gardens.
27 June University of Northampton.
5 July BSHS annual conference, Leicester.
24 July Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
16 Sept. Life and Earth Scientists: SE Asian Gateway Meeting at Royal Holloway, University of London.
26 Sept. Cambridge Library Group.
18 Oct. Geological Society of America, Portland Oregon.
28 Oct.- 15 Nov. Argentina and Chile, South America.
27 Nov. Oundle School.
4 Dec. Porto University, Portugal.

Selected publications

Professional Activities

2009-	Editorial board of The evolutionary review.
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.
2005	Visiting Associate Professor, History of Ideas Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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)
2002-3 2001-	Senior Research Fellow, University Scholars Programme, 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 The 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.)