LINCOLN MEDICAL SOCIETY
Next meeting
The life and work of Dr Martin Lister,
1st May 2024
Professor Roos is a Professor in the history of science and medicine at the University of Lincoln. She came to Lincoln in 2013 from the University of Oxford, where she was the Lister Research Fellow. Professor Roos studies the early Royal Society, as well as natural history, chemistry, and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and publishes not only as a professional historian but also as an advisor to taxonomists. Her scientific and historical work has been featured in Nature News, Wellcome History, National Geographic, the Guardian and the New York Times, and has received the John Thackray Medal.
Professor Roos is a Professor in the history of science and medicine at the University of Lincoln. She came to Lincoln in 2013 from the University of Oxford, where she was the Lister Research Fellow. Professor Roos studies the early Royal Society, as well as natural history, chemistry, and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and publishes not only as a professional historian but also as an advisor to taxonomists. Her scientific and historical work has been featured in Nature News, Wellcome History, National Geographic, the Guardian and the New York Times, and has received the John Thackray Medal.