Aileen Fyfe

Fyfe formerly lectured on the history of science and technology, typically nineteenth-century, at NUI Galway, c. 2000s.[1] She is currently based at the University of St Andrews and is Director of Research for the School of History. Her research there is focused on the circulation and consumption of knowledge from the late seventeenth century onwards.[2][3][4]

Fyfe is a member of the Council of the History of Science Society (USA). From 2002 to 2007 she was Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Science, and she was the Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's subcommittee on the History of Science until 2010.[2]

• Fyfe, Aileen (2003), Science for Children, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, ISBN 9781843710219
• Fyfe, Aileen (2004), Science and salvation: evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226276489
• Fyfe, Aileen; Lightman, Bernard V (2007), Science in the marketplace: nineteenth-century sites and experiences, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 022615002X
• Fyfe, Aileen (2012), Steam-powered knowledge: William Chambers and the business of publishing, 1820-1860, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226276511

Fyfe was awarded the 2013 Edelstein Prize, recognizing Steam-Powered Knowledge as best book on the history of technology.[2]

• "John Dalton" (link) In Our Time, BBC Radio 4. Aileen Fyfe on the panel with Jim Bennett and James Sumner.