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Alan Chalmers was born 1939 in Bristol, England. He has a doctorate in history and the philosophy of science that he was awarded from the University of London in 1971. -
Dr. Alan Chalmers is most known for his work in "An Epistemological History of Atomism." In which he breaks down how the "known sciences" such as chemistry and physics accepted and proven the study of atoms? -
Dr. Chalmers moved to Sydney, Australia in 1973 to take a professor role at the University of Sydney in which he began really diving into the Philosophy of Science and how the techniques and procedures that follow with empirical data, relate to not only historical discographies of science, but also how that research is used today. -
Dr. Alan Chalmers first major breakthrough came in the form of a book titled " What is this thing called Science", in which Chalmers breaks down how Scientists pre- Scientific revolution were naïve in their data collection ways, and how their empirical data collection methods were "Naïve", his work on historical data collection is massive in terms of The historical presence in The philosophy of science and paved the road for many philosophers to dive into empirical data collection in history. -
Dr. Alana Chalmers, work "An Epistemological History of Atomism" was published June 30th, 2005 and his breakthrough discovery was that early scientists that had discovered the atom such as John Dalton and Neil Bohr, had in fact lied about their "breakthroughs" and due to their standing in the scientific community, many scientists took their "discoveries" at face value without any real evidence. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MyVHf31Zs
Citation:
Chalmers, A. F. What Is This Thing Called Science? Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015.