14 Facts About Londa Schiebinger

Londa Schiebinger is the John L Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University.

Londa Schiebinger is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Londa Schiebinger was the first woman in the field of History to win the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 1999.

Londa Schiebinger has held prestigious Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Londa Schiebinger has worked to create infrastructure for gender-responsible science across the three pillars of academic infrastructure: funding agencies, peer-reviewed journals, and universities.

Londa Schiebinger seeks to help universities integrate social analysis into core natural science and engineering curricula.

Londa Schiebinger argues that women were ready and willing to take their place in science in the early modern period in astronomy, physics, mathematics, anatomy, and botany.

Londa Schiebinger first identifies these women and the structures of early modern European society that allowed them a place in science.

Londa Schiebinger uncovered the story of Winkelmann, a noted astronomer, and described important paths not taken with respect to women in science in the eighteenth century.

Londa Schiebinger argues that it was the attempt to define the position of women in European society at large and in science in particular that spawned the first representations of the female skeleton.

Londa Schiebinger tells the remarkable story of Maria Sibylla Merian, one of the few European women to voyage for science in the eighteenth century.

Londa Schiebinger tells those stories, and sets these findings firmly in the context of slavery, colonial expansion, the development of drug testing, and medical ethics of the time.

Londa Schiebinger argues that proper care of enslaved people as well as soldiers and sailors was a matter of moral concern in this period to be sure, but a means to secure the wealth of nations.

Londa Schiebinger's partner is Robert N Proctor, and her children are Geoffrey Schiebinger, now professor of mathematics and computational biology, and Jonathan Neel Proctor, now professor of environmental economics.