Dorothea Waley Singer

Who was Dorothea Waley Singer?

Dorothea Waley Singer, b. Cohen was a historian of science, and the first president of the British Society for the History of Science. She studied at Queen's College, London. She married Charles Singer in 1910, and her first papers were co-authored with her husband. In parallel she started her own line of research specializing in the Medieval and Early Modern period, initially an ambitious project to identify and classify all manuscripts dealing with science and medicine in the British Isles; she had found over 30,000 by the end of 1918. Together with her husband, she was co-awarded the George Sarton Medal in 1956.