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Science prizes: what are they for?
Cross-posted from The H Word. Prizes can recognise achievements (like the Nobels) or induce researchers to focus on particular problems. John Harrison’s 1759 sea watch was a result of the latter...
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Prize fights: animadversions on the almanac
Cross-posted from the Longitude Project Blog. A long time ago, in a post far, far away, I stated that “There was no such thing as the longitude prize”. In the same post I also mentioned that I would,...
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The benefits of hindsight: how history can contribute to science policy
By Rebekah Higgitt and James Wilsdon and first posted at The H Word blog. It is an edited version of their contribution to the book Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Whitehall, which is free...
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Did the Longitude Act speed up the solution to the longitude problem?
Cross-posted from The Longitude Project Blog. I recently did a brief talk for some of the staff at Nesta, including their Centre for Challenge Prizes, on our project and outcomes of our research....
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Leonhard Euler, longitude winner
Cross-posted from The H Word blog, first appeared 15 April 2013. Leonhard Euler, the influential Swiss mathematician, has had the 306th anniversary of his birth honoured by a Google doodle. Photograph:...
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Barbados or bust: longitude on trial
Cross-posted from The H Word blog, where this post first appeared on 9 September 2013. Barbados beach scene (perhaps not quite what Nevil Maskelyne experienced in 1763) On 9 September 1763 a young...
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Longitude Season has started…
There has already been plenty of longitude on this blog, The H Word and the Longitude Project blog, so apologies that there is more to come. This has all been leading up to 2014, the tercentenary of...
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There was no such thing as the Longitude Prize #2
I am reposting part of this post from the Longitude Project blog, as a timely reminder, because there *is* now such a thing as the Longitude Prize. It is also on Twitter and much in the media as it...
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The Longitude Prize Committee: a new Board of Longitude?
Cross-posted from The H Word blog. The Board of Longitude brought to life at Greenwich Theatre in 2005. Photograph: Tristram Kenton The new Longitude Prize has nothing to do with longitude: that...
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On longitude in BBC History Magazine
A piece that I wrote for BBC History Magazine, which appeared in 2014, has been made available by someone (Morgan High History Academy, anyone?) as a PDF online here. With some nice pictures, courtesy...
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