Sandra Herbert née Swanson (born April 10, 1942 in Chicago)[1] is an American historian of science with an international reputation as an expert on Charles Darwin.
[3] Sandra Lynn Swanson's father was an accountant[1] and both her grandfathers worked at Chicago steel mills.
[6] In 1966 she married James Charles Herbert (born 1941), who received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Brandeis University and became an education executive.
[7] Sandra Herbert was from 2007 to 2008 a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge.
[12] There she and her colleagues in July 2007 on Isla Santiago located igneous rocks similar to the samples collected by Darwin.