John van Wyhe

Who is John van Wyhe?

John van Wyhe is a historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, at the National University of Singapore. He holds numerous academic and research positions, ranging from founder and director of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, Scientific Associate, The Natural History Museum, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Member of the British Society for the History of Science.₁ Through Darwin Online, he has distributed more Darwin to the public than all the publishers in history combined. He has given more than 50 public lectures on Darwin in more than a dozen countries. He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, evolution, science and religion and the history of science around world.

Born in California, van Wyhe studied at The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, before moving to the UK, where he received an M.A. from University College London and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He accepted a Senior Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore in 2002 where he both founded the Darwin Online Project and edited the Science section of the Victorian Web. ₃