Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master’s degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor’s degree in experimental physics.
She is the author of three books: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, and The Spirit of Inquiry (both OUP); and now her first trade project, Bluestockings, about women’s lives in the eighteenth century, published by John Murray in the UK and W. W. Norton in the US.