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PARTICULAR POPULAR SCIENCE: BRITISH SCIENTISTS WRITING, SPEAKING AND BROADCASTING ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION FROM THE 1980s

Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 2018-09, Vol.72 (3), p.365-381 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018 The Author(s) ;Copyright The Royal Society Publishing Sep 20, 2018 ;ISSN: 0035-9149 ;EISSN: 1743-0178 ;DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2017.0045

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  • Title:
    PARTICULAR POPULAR SCIENCE: BRITISH SCIENTISTS WRITING, SPEAKING AND BROADCASTING ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION FROM THE 1980s
  • Author: Merchant, Paul
  • Subjects: Motivation ; Oral History ; Popular Science ; Public Understanding Of Science ; Science ; Science And Religion
  • Is Part Of: Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 2018-09, Vol.72 (3), p.365-381
  • Description: This paper draws on extended life story oral history interviews with scientists who, beginning in the 1980s, turned to writing popular books, making radio and television programmes and taking to the stage for public lectures and debates, with relations between science and religion often a key topic: Peter Atkins, Nicholas Humphrey, Steve Jones, John Polkinghorne, Russell Stannard and Lewis Wolpert. I show that these interviews capture aspects of motivation and experience missed in much existing work on popular science. Stressing historical and individual particularity, I argue that what these scientists say about their decisions, aims and rewards should make us question a strong tendency in recent scholarship both to regard popular science as part of scientific work in general, and also to read the outcomes of popular science – such as advocacy for science or the promotion of certain theories – as the motivations for its production.
  • Publisher: London: Royal Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0035-9149
    EISSN: 1743-0178
    DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2017.0045
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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