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Prof Jon Agar
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Head of Department
Dept of Science & Technology Studies
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2007
Teaching summary
HPSC1011 History of Modern Science
HPSC2017 STS in Action
HPSC2028 Thinking about Technology
HPSC3002 Science, Warfare and Peace
HPSC3052 Nature, Technology and the Environment
HPSCGA11 (MSc) Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Education
- University of Kent
- PhD, History of Science | 1994
- University of Cambridge
- BA, Mathematics | 1990
Biography
Professor in Science and Technology Studies. Jon writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. He is the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond for Polity Press. He was the editor of the British Journal for the History of Science, and is now editor of the new open-access journal BJHS Themes.