She is the long-standing Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Although divorced from her first husband, Nicholas Jardine, she continues to use his surname professionally.
Lisa Jardine, née Bronowski, is the eldest child of the late scientist Jacob Bronowski and sculptor Rita Coblentz. (Bowker Author Biography) - biography from Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance … ( more) She died of cancer on Octoat the age of 71. She received a Royal Society medal for popularizing science and was appointed CBE in 2005 for her contribution and commitment to state education. Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory won the $75,000 Cundill International Prize in History in 2009. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse, Ingenious Pursuits, Worldly Goods, Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West, and Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture. She taught English at Warburg Institute, the University of Essex, Cornell University, Cambridge University, and Queen Mary and Westfield College. She studied mathematics and English at university receiving a MA in the literary theory of translation from the University of Essex and a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the scientific genius of Francis Bacon. Lisa Jardine was born in Oxford, England on April 12, 1944.
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