David Marcus Knight (30 November 1936 – 19 January 2018)[1] was Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.
The son of the Reverend Marcus Knight, later Dean of Exeter, he read chemistry at Keble College, Oxford and, after serving in the military, read a DPhil in the history of Victorian chemistry under the supervision of Alistair Cameron Crombie, Oxford University's Professor of the History of Science.
[2] After Oxford he was appointed as Durham's lecturer in the history of science in the Department of Philosophy and remained there for the duration of his career.
[3] He served on the editorial boards of Ambix, Archives of Natural, History Annals of Science, and the British Journal for the History of Science and edited history of science book series for Cambridge University Press, Routledge and Ashgate Publishers.
He was President of the British Society for the History of Science[4] and received numerous awards during the duration of his career, including the Templeton Award for his work on nineteenth century natural theology and the American Chemical Society's prestigious Edelstein Award for his research in the history of chemistry.