Clare Hall is delighted to congratulate Professor Anna Marie Roos on being awarded the prestigious Founders’ Medal by the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).

The Founders’ Medal is awarded to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the study of the history or bibliography of natural history, recognising sustained scholarly achievement and impact within the field.

Professor Roos is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln and a distinguished historian of early modern science. Her research has shed new light on the development of natural history, medicine, chemistry and scientific culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and Europe.

A Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Professor Roos has held fellowships at institutions including All Souls College, Oxford, the Huntington Library, and the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science.

The distinction places Professor Roos among an eminent group of previous recipients that includes renowned broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, as well as Cambridge historian of science Professor Jim Secord.

We warmly congratulate Professor Roos on this well-deserved recognition!