The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair in the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world.... . The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist
Ethology
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,... Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author.... by an endowment from Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a Hungary computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office.... .
In 2008 Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow#Academic use of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College Oxford.... was elected to the chair.
It is a common misconception that this is a chair "of the Public Understanding of Science" but this is not the case. The aim of the Professorship is to communicate science to the public
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The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair in the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world.... . The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist
Ethology
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,... Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author.... by an endowment from Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a Hungary computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office.... .
In 2008 Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow#Academic use of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College Oxford.... was elected to the chair.
It is a common misconception that this is a chair "of the Public Understanding of Science" but this is not the case. The aim of the Professorship is to communicate science to the public
Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author....
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly a Fellow#Academic use of All Souls College, and Wadham College, he is now a Fellow of New College Oxford....
