Richard Hamblyn
, b. 1965
Richard Hamblyn (1965) was born in Cornwall and lived in Jamaica and England. He is a historian – he graduated from the University of Essex and holds a PhD from Cambridge in the field of 18th-century topography and geology; a writer – he authored and coauthored numerous books and publications on the weather (among them some illustrated volumes in cooperation with the UK Met Office), climate change as well as history of science; and an editor – he edited Daniel Defoe’s The Storm for Penguin Classics, and the anthologies of historical scientific writings.
Some of his articles and essays can be read at his website (accessed: July 2, 2018).
His biography of the nephologist Luke Howard won a 2002 Los Angeles Book Time Prize; also his recent book: Clouds. Nature and Culture (2017) is dedicated to the relation between humans and the sky.
Bio prepared by Joanna Kłos, University of Warsaw, joanna.klos@student.uw.edu.pl
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