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Simon Schaffer was born on 1 January, 1955 in Southampton, is a British academic. Discover Simon Schaffer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Simon Schaffer Net Worth
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Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.
Schaffer was born in Southampton in 1955.
His family moved to Brisbane, Australia that 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.
While at Trinity, he captained the winning college team in the 1974 University Challenge.
After completing his undergraduate degree, Schaffer went to Harvard University for a year as a Kennedy Scholar to study the history of science.
He returned to Cambridge in 1976, and gained his PhD in 1980 with the thesis Newtonian cosmology and the steady state, while Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
During the early 1980s, Schaffer taught at Imperial College London.
Since 1985, he has been a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life with Steven Shapin.
In addition to his work at Cambridge, he has been a presenter on the BBC, in particular the series Light Fantastic broadcast on BBC Four in 2004.
He has been a regular contributor and reviewer for the London Review of Books. Schaffer has made multiple appearances on the BBC radio discussion series In Our Time.
In 2005, Schaffer shared the Erasmus Prize with Steven Shapin for Leviathan and the Air-Pump.
Simon's mother, Sheila, who died in 2010, was a university librarian and Labour councillor who was Mayor of Brighton in 1995.
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.
Schaffer was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
In 2013, he received the George Sarton Medal, the most prestigious honor awarded by the History of Science Society, in recognition of his contribution to the "history of science, not only as an academic discipline, but also as a source of broader intellectual inspiration and understanding".
