Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. Educated at Rutgers University in New Jersey (where he was born and raised) and then at Cambridge University, he has published widely in the history of the life and human sciences since 1750. His books include Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology (Chicago, 2023), shortlisted for the 2024 Pickstone Prize of the British Society for the History of Science for best academic book in English in the general field of history of science, medicine and technology; The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (Chicago, 2007), awarded the 2010 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize of the History of Science Society for best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history; and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (Cambridge, 2003; 2nd edition 2009).
He has held research fellowships from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and served as President of the British Society for the History of Science (2014‒16) and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (2019‒21).
Currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Metascience, he writes and lectures frequently for general audiences, contributing regularly to the Times Literary Supplement, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and in the PBS/National Geographic television series Genius with Stephen Hawking. In 2022 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Group, and in 2024 was elected to the Fellowship of the Linnean Society of London. In 2025 he became the first humanities scholar to win the J. B. S. Haldane Lecture Award from the Genetics Society, recognizing “outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience.”