Geoffrey Cantor (academic)

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Geoffrey N. Cantor (born 1943) is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has written about Michael Faraday, the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science.{{citation|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001287 |publisher=The Royal Institution of Great Britain |title=Prof Geoffrey Cantor |year=2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625230017/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001287 |archivedate=2010-06-25 }} With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow, which were subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998.{{citation |url=http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=232 |title=Geoffrey Cantor |publisher=Gifford Lectures Online |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308152751/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=232 |archivedate=2008-03-08 }} He contributed to the SciPer Project, which researches the popularization of science in the periodicals of the 19th century, such as the Boy's Own Paper and Punch, and has lectured upon this subject at the Royal Institution in 2005.{{citation|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=121 |publisher=The Royal Institution of Great Britain |title=Punchlines: from wit to wisdom |date=25 January 2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612053220/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=121 |archivedate=2011-06-12 }}