Robert Fox

Professor Robert Fox, Linacre Emeritus Fellow, is the 2015 recipient of the George Sarton Medal, the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society. This annual award recognises a lifetime of scholarly achievement across an international community of historians of science. Professor Fox held the chair in the history of science at Oxford from 1988 – 2006. His main research interests are in the history of the physical sciences and technology in Europe, particularly France, since the eighteenth century.