Rupert Sheldrake

Biologist; Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, were he was awarded the University Botany Prize, before turning to philosophy at Harvard University. He then returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD in biochemistry before becoming Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.

He has held posts ar the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India, is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and an Academic Director and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut where he was Principal Plant Physiologist. Sheldrake has written for newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, The Times Educational Supplement, New Scientist, the Ecologist and the Spectator. He is the author of The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988), The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992) and winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute for Social Inventions, Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994).