Prof Bernard Lightman

Professor of Humanities
York University

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities Department at York University, and Past President of the History of Science Society. Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections The Metaphysical Society (co-edited with Catherine Marshall and Richard England), Rethinking History, Science and Religion, and Science Periodicals in Nineteenth Century Britain (co-edited with Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan Topham). He is currently working on a book on science, religion, and Victorian periodicals, and is one of the general editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall. He is also editor of the book series “Science and Nineteenth Century Culture,” which, like the Tyndall Correspondence, is published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Honoraria Titles

Distinguished Research Professor
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

History of Science, Naturalism

Science & Technology Interests

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

Publications