Lisa Anne Jardine was a British historian of the early modern period.
32 Facts About Lisa Jardine
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Lisa Jardine was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, until 2009.
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Lisa Jardine was born on 12 April 1944 in Oxford, the eldest of four daughters of mathematician and polymath, Jacob Bronowski, and the sculptor, Rita Coblentz.
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An avid reader with an interest in history from a very young age, Lisa Jardine won a mathematics scholarship to Cheltenham Ladies' College and later attended Newnham College, Cambridge, and the University of Essex.
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Lisa Jardine was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse.
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In striking out on her own career path, Lisa Jardine recalled that she initially found her father's celebrity something of a burden, noting that she was "very, very conscious" of being his daughter.
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When in 1969 she married Cambridge historian and philosopher of science, Nicholas Lisa Jardine, she was relieved to assume her husband's surname, which she continued to use after the couple's divorce in 1979.
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Lisa Jardine was reported to have said that her greatest achievement was her three "well-balanced children".
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Lisa Jardine was Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, where she was Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.
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Lisa Jardine was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow and Honorary Fellow of King's College and Jesus College, Cambridge.
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Lisa Jardine was a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum for eight years, and was for five years a member of the Council of the Royal Institution in London.
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Lisa Jardine was Patron of the Archives and Records Association and the Orange Prize.
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Lisa Jardine was a Trustee of the Chelsea Physic Garden.
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Lisa Jardine published more than 50 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, and 17 full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership, a number of them in co-authorship with others.
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Lisa Jardine was the author of many books, both scholarly and general, including The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution and biographies of Robert Hooke, and Sir Christopher Wren.
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Lisa Jardine wrote and reviewed widely for the media, and presented and appeared regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio.
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Lisa Jardine was a regular writer and presenter of A Point of View on BBC Radio 4; a book of the first two series of her talks was published by Preface Publishing in March 2008 and a second in 2009.
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Lisa Jardine judged the Novel category of the 1996 Whitbread Book Awards, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
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Lisa Jardine sat for several years on the Apeldoorn British Dutch Conference Steering Board, and was a member of the Recommendation Committee Stichting Huygens Tentoonstelling Foundation, set up to oversee the Constantijn and Christian Huygens Exhibition in the Grote Kerk in The Hague in 2013.
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On 26 January 2011, Lisa Jardine appeared in a BBC documentary investigating her father's life and the history of science in the 20th century.
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Lisa Jardine was President of the Antiquarian Horological Society, a learned society focused on matters relating to the art and history of time measurement.
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Lisa Jardine was a former chairman of the governing body at Westminster City School for Boys in London, and a former Chair of the Curriculum Committee on the governing body of St Marylebone Church of England School for Girls in London.
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Lisa Jardine was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
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Lisa Jardine, CBE is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities at UCL.
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Lisa Jardine is in great demand as a lecturer, and has given Tanner Lectures in both Cambridge and Yale.
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Lisa Jardine has received numerous honorary doctorates and fellowships; in 2012 she received the British Academy President's Medal.
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Lisa Jardine has served on the Arts and Humanities Research Council and as Trustee of the V and A Museum.
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For nearly four decades, Lisa Jardine has combined high-level scholarship with extensive outreach, and has been extraordinarily energetic and effective in spanning the 'two cultures'.
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Lisa Jardine has, in particular, been an enthusiastic advocate of the Society; election as an Honorary Fellow is recognition that she richly deserves and would deeply appreciate.
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Lisa Jardine held honorary doctorates of Letters from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University, and an honorary doctorate of Science from the University of Aberdeen.
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Lisa Jardine was awarded the Francis Bacon Award in the History of Science by the California Institute of Technology in 2012, and collected the Bacon Medal for this award at the annual History of Science Society meeting in San Diego in September 2012.
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Lisa Jardine died of cancer on 25 October 2015, aged 71, and her ashes were buried next to those of her parents, in the west side of Highgate Cemetery.