page_title: Michael Hunter (historian)
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Hunter (historian)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Michael Hunter, recipient of the Roy G. Neville Prize, October 13, 2011, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
context_page_description: Michael Cyril William Hunter FBA FRHistS is Emeritus Professor of History in the department of history, classics and archaeology and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London. Hunter is interested in the culture of early modern England. He specialises in the history of science in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England, particularly the work of Robert Boyle. In Noel Malcolm's judgement, Hunter "has done more for Boyle studies than anyone before him".
context_section_description: Michael Cyril William Hunter FBA FRHistS (born 1949) is Emeritus Professor of History in the department of history, classics and archaeology and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London.  Hunter is interested in the culture of early modern England.  He specialises in the history of science in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England, particularly the work of Robert Boyle. In Noel Malcolm's judgement, Hunter "has done more for Boyle studies than anyone before him (or, one might almost say, than all previous Boyle scholars put together)".
caption: Michael Hunter at the Neville Awards in 2009
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