Lisa Jardine
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Lisa Anne Jardine CBE HonFRS FRHistS (née Bronowski; 12 April 1944 – 25 October 2015) was a British historian of the early modern period.
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Born | Lisa Anne Bronowski (1944-04-12)12 April 1944 Oxford, England |
Died | 25 October 2015(2015-10-25) (aged 71) London, England |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Early modern history |
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From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies[1] and director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary University of London. From 2008 to January 2014 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).[2][3][4][5][6]
Jardine was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, until 2009. On 1 September 2012, she relocated with her research centre and staff to University College London (UCL) to become founding director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.[7][8]