Martin John Spencer Rudwick (born 1932) is a British
geologist,
historian, and academic.[1][2][3] Rudwick is an
emeritus professor of History at the
University of California, San Diego and an affiliated research scholar at
Cambridge University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science. His principal field of study is the history of the
earth sciences; his work has been described as the "definitive histories of the pre-Darwinian earth sciences".[4] Rudwick was an early scholar to critique the
conflict thesis regarding religion and science.
Honours
Rudwick was awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society, London, in 1972. He was the recipient of
Sue Tyler Friedman Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1988. The Society for the History of Natural History awarded Rudwick the Founder's Medal in 1988. Rudwick was named a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation for 1994–1995, the same years that he was Tarner Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was recipient of the Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Sciences in 1999. He was the recipient of the 2007
George Sarton Medal from the
History of Science Society. In 2008, he was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[5] In 2008 he was given the Prix Wegmann of the Société Géologique de France. Rudwick was awarded the Levinson Prize by the History of Science Society in 2012 and the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science in 2015. In 2016 the International Union of Geological Sciences awarded Rudwick the Tikhomirov Award.
Martin Rudwick, “The Shape and Meaning of Earth History,” in God and Nature: Historical Essays and the Encounter between Christianity and Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald Numbers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), pp. 296–321.
The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (Chicago, 1985,
ISBN0-226-73101-4)
Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Images of the Prehistoric World (Chicago, 1992,
ISBN0-226-73104-9)
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes (Chicago, 1997,
ISBN0-226-73106-5)[6]
The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution (Ashgate, 2004,
ISBN0-86078-958-6)
Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform (Ashgate, 2005,
ISBN0-86078-959-4)
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution (Chicago, 2005,
ISBN0-226-73111-1)[7]