Andrea Wulf.
ANDREA WULF
ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, THE LOST HERO OF SCIENCE (2015)
Winner of the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize.
Alexander von Humboldt (born 1769) was a pioneer in the field of botanical geography, and geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. He was one of the first to argue that South America and Africa were once joined as a single continent.
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Andrea Wulf (born 1967) is a German-British writer specialising in the history of science. She was born in New Delhi, India, where her parents were working in development aid. She grew up in Hamburg, and studied at the University Luneburg, going on to study design history at the Royal College of Art in London. Her other books include ‘Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens’ describing the scientific expeditions that set off around the world in 1761 and 1769 to collect data on the transit of Venus.
