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Professor Michael Hunter
(Elected 2012)
Biography
Professor Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, is the world’s foremost expert on Robert Boyle, the seventeenth-century scientist who was one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
A historian of international stature, Professor Hunter has made an incomparable contribution to the understanding of early modern science. During the past 20 years he has been the principal editor of Boyle’s Works (14 volumes, 1999-2000), Correspondence (6 volumes, 2001) and Workdiaries. These editions built on his work in the late 1980s in cataloguing Boyle’s vast archive.
Professor Hunter’s biography of the scientist, Boyle: Between God and Science, was published in 2009 by Yale University Press and issued in paperback in 2010. In 2011, it was the winner of both the Samuel Pepys Award and the Roy G. Neville Prize. This drew on various interpretive studies of Boyle that Professor Hunter had published over the previous two decades, which presented Boyle as an anxious and convoluted figure, in contrast to the lay saint of traditional historiography. His work in this area led to him being elected to a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.
‘My work on Boyle grew out of earlier work on the milieu of the "new science"
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Medical education in Sheffield
1800-1850
Hall Overend trained the first medical students in Sheffield | Image by Picture Sheffield
Dr Arnold Knight, founder of the Sheffield Medical Institution | Image from Wikimedia Commons
The Cholera Monument in Sheffield | Image by diamond geezer on Flickr
1811
Hall Overend, a Sheffield surgeon apothecary, begins to train medical students in Sheffield. His "school" consists of an anatomy museum and stories suggest that he encourages his students to obtain bodies for dissection from burials.
1812
Dr Arnold Knight (knighted in 1841) founds the Sheffield Medical Institution, the precursor of today’s Medical School. He made an early study of grinders’ asthma and started the Public Dispensary. The rival School of Anatomy and Medicine is run by Wilson Overend (son of Hall Overend) in Church Street, relocating to Eyre Street in 1834.
The Sheffield Medical Institution opens on Surrey Street on 2 July, containing a museum and library, a lecture room with 100 seats and a dissecting room. Its motto is the Hippocratic aphorism ‘Ars Longa Vita Brevis’ (art is long, life is short): the original stone carving of this text is now situated close to the Medical School’s entrance on Beech Hill Road.
1832
A cholera epidemic strikes Shef
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