F. Sherwood Taylor

F. Sherwood Taylor was Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (above).

Frank Sherwood Taylor (1897 – 5 January 1956) was a British historian of science, museum curator, and chemist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England.[1]

F. Sherwood Taylor was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, southern England and Lincoln College, Oxford.[2] He then undertook a PhD at University College, London in the new Department of History and Method of Science.

He spent a period as a schoolmaster and then as a lecturer in chemistry at Queen Mary College, London. He was a founder member of the Philosophy of Science Group. He was also the founder editor of the Ambix journal, started in 1937. In 1940, he succeeded Robert Gunther as Curator of the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.[3] Towards the end of his life, he was Director of the Science Museum from 1950 until his death in 1956. During this time, he delivered the 1952 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London on How Science has Grown.

Books

F. Sherwood Taylor wrote many books on the history of alchemy and chemistry in particular, and also of science in general:[4][5]

References

  1. Ralph E. Oesper, "Frank Sherwood Taylor", Journal of Chemical Education, 27(5), p 253, May 1950. ACS Publications. doi:10.1021/ed027p253
  2. A. C. C., Obituary: Frank Sherwood Taylor, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 7, Number 26, page 183184, August 1956). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
  3. A. V. Simock (editor), Robert T. Gunther and the Old Ashmolean. Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1985. ISBN 0-903364-04-2. Page 93.
  4. F. Sherwood Taylor (1897–1956), LibraryThing.
  5. Books › "F. Sherwood Taylor", Amazon.com.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Robert Gunther
Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
1940–1950
Succeeded by
C. H. Josten
Preceded by
Herman Shaw
Director of the Science Museum
1950–1956
Succeeded by
Sir Terence Morrison-Scott
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