Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell (4 August 1919 – 8 May 1998) was a historian of science and technology, Professor of the History of Science at UMIST from 1974 to 1984 and President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
[1][2] Cardwell was born in Gibraltar in 1919, the son of a civil servant from Croydon, Surrey.
During the Second World War, he joined the Admiralty Signals Establishment, serving in Scotland, West Africa and the Middle East.
Post-war he returned to King's College London to study for a PhD in Physics working with Bill Seeds, John Randall and Maurice Wilkins.
[3] Cardwell worked at Keele University for two years c.1955 with the economist Bruce Williams, then at the University of Leeds before joining UMIST as Reader in the History of Science and Technology in 1963.