JBS Haldane Lecture 2025 Prof Gregory Radick

The Genetics Society is delighted to announce Prof Gregory Radick as the winner of the 2025 JBS Haldane Lecture Award.

Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, where his research focuses on the history of the sciences of life and mind since 1750. He is the author of several books, most recently Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology (Chicago, 2023), which was shortlisted for the 2024 Pickstone Prize for the best academic book in English in the general field of history of science, technology and medicine. He has been at the forefront of attempts to develop an evidence-based approach to counterfactual questions about the scientific past – work that led him to propose and test an alternative, complexity-first curriculum for introductory genetics. A past president of the British Society for the History of Science and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, he is currently a STEM Trustee of the Science Museum Group.