Patricia Fara

Fara was also a College Teaching Officer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From 2016 to 2018, Fara was President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2016, she became President of the Antiquarian Horological Society. Fara is author of numerous popular books on the history of science and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's science and history discussion series In Our Time.

Patricia Fara studied at University of Oxford and Imperial College London. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is philosophy of science, history of science and children's and young adult literature. Employment is recorded with University of Cambridge and Clare College. Positions recorded include President of the British Society for the History of Science.

• Name — Patricia Fara • Discipline — History of science • Work Institutions — University of Cambridge • Alma Mater — University of Oxford • Known for — Women in science

Fara began her career as a physics teacher but returned to graduate studies as a mature student to specialise in History and Philosophy of Science, completing her PhD thesis at Imperial College, London, in 1993.

Her areas of particular academic interest include the role of portraiture and art in the history of science, science in 18th-century England during the Enlightenment, and the role of women in science. She has written about numerous women in science, mathematics, engineering and medicine, including: Hertha Ayrton, Lady Helen Gleichen, Mona Chalmers Watson, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Isabel Emslie Hutton, Flora Murray, Ida Maclean, Marie Stopes, and Martha Annie Whiteley. Fara has argued for expanded access to childcare as a means of increasing the retention of women in science. She has written and co-authored a number of books for children on science. Fara is also a reviewer of books on history of science. She has written the award-winning Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009) and Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity (2012). Her most recent book is A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2017). In 2013, Fara published an article in the journal Nature, stressing the fact that biographies of female scientists perpetuate stereotypes.

• BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Ada Lovelace", 6 March 2008 • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Vitalism", 28 October 2008. • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Baconian Science", 2 April 2009. • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Calculus", 24 September 2009 • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Women and Enlightenment Science", 4 November 2010. • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Robert Hooke", 18 February 2016. • BBC Radio 4 The Forum "Marie Curie - A Pioneering Life", 19 August 2017 • BBC Radio 4 In Our Time "Rosalind Franklin", 22 February 2018 • BBC Radio 4 Science Stories "Madame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen", 21 August 2019.