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Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science

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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. 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".

Richard Dawkins explain the history of the creation of the chair in a chapter of his memoirs, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science.[1] In 2008, Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was elected to the chair.[2][3][4][5]

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:[6][7]

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Marcus du Sautoy, second Simonyi Professor, invited:[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ^ Richard Dawkins, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, Bantam Press, 2015 (ISBN 978-0-59307-256-1). Chapter "Simonyi Professor", pages 271-307.
  2. ^ "The Simonyi Professorship home page". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2008-06-23. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
  3. ^ Charles Simonyi (1995-05-15). "Manifesto for the Simonyi Professorship". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2008-06-23. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  4. ^ "The Current Simonyi Professor: Richard Dawkins". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2008-06-23. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  5. ^ Richard Dawkins. "Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science". RichardDawkins.net. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
  6. ^ Richard Dawkins, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, Bantam Press, 2015, page 282 (ISBN 978-0-59307-256-1). Chapter "Simonyi Professor", pages 271-307.
  7. ^ a b The Simonyi Lectures, University of Oxford (page visited on 6 December 2015).

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See also

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