User:John van Wyhe

John van Wyhe is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online, a Bye-Fellow of Christ's College (Darwin's own college) and a member of the British Society for the History of Science. His research ranges across Darwin's life and work, focusing in recent years on refuting the long-held belief in 'Darwin's 20 year delay', the origins of the legend that Darwin discovered evolution from the finches while in the Galapagos, and more recently Darwin's views on the origins of life. Van Wyhe is publishing three books and numerous shorter items on Darwin for 2009: an edited volume of Darwin's shorter publications (more than 250 in all), a co-edited volume of Darwin's Beagle notebooks and an accessible illustrated book on Darwin and evolution. In addition to editing Darwin Online, the largest and most complete collection of Darwin's writings ever published, van Wyhe edits the most complete bibliographical list of Darwin's publications. He is also researching other aspects of Darwin's life and work including his time in Cambridge, helping to restore Darwin's college rooms and contributing to an iconography of Darwin. Dr van Wyhe is committed to sharing Darwin's work, Darwin scholarship and history of science with the wider public. He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin and the history of science around the world.