| LC control no. | n 81135774 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bennett, J. A. (James A.) |
| Variant(s) | Bennett, Jim (James A.) Bennett, James A. (James Arthur), 1947- |
| Associated place | Cambridge (England) |
| Birth date | 1947-04-02 |
| Death date | 2023-10-28 |
| Place of birth | Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
| Field of activity | Science--History Museums--Curatorship |
| Affiliation | Whipple Museum of the History of Science |
| Profession or occupation | Historians of science Museum directors |
| Found in | His The mathematical science of Sir Christopher Wren, 1982: CIP t.p. (J.A. Bennett; curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Univ. of Cambridge) nuc88-131119: His Studies in the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren, 1973 (hdg. on NjP rept.: Bennett, J. A.; usage: James A. Bennett) London's Leonardo, 2003: t.p. (Jim Bennett) BL auth. file, Dec. 11, 2006 (hdg.: Bennett, J. A. (James Arthur), 1947- ; source: AL (Apr. 2)) Guardian WWW site, viewed December 19, 2023 (Jim Bennett; James Arthur Bennett, museum curator and historian of science, born 2 April 1947, Belfast; died 28 October 2023. Jim studied at Grosvenor high school before entering Clare College, Cambridge, taking his BA in natural sciences in 1969 and completing a PhD in the history of science five years later, subsequently published as The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren (1982). Stints teaching in Aberdeen and working as the archivist to the Royal Astronomical Society in London led him to his true vocation as a curator working with scientific artefacts, first at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and then, from 1979 to 1994, as the director of the Whipple Museum) |
| Associated language | eng |
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