Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science
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Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science
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The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair at the University of Oxford. The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist Richard Dawkins by an endowment from Charles Simonyi. The aim of the Professorship is 'to communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understanding'. It is a position that had been endowed by Charles Simonyi with the express intention that the holder "be
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Chair at the University of Oxford
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2023-05-24T17:46:23Z
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