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{{Short description|Dutch historian}}
[[Image:Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke.png|thumb|alt=Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke|Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke]]
'''Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke''' (born 22 January 1944 in [[Rotterdam]]) is a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist.<ref name="Who is who entry">''Who is Who in the World 2011'' - 28th edition.</ref>
He studied biology and geology at the [[Groningen University|university of Groningen]] and geology and the history of science at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]]. Early in his studies, Rupke was a Christian and proponent of [[Flood geology]],<ref name="Why Not Creation?">
Rupke is known for his studies of late-modern biology, geology and [[science & religion]]. With an interest in the biographical approach, he restored to their contemporary prominence several nineteenth-century scientists, most important among them [[Richard Owen]] who well before the appearance of ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' developed a naturalistic theory of evolution, albeit a non-Darwinian one.<ref name="Owen biography">''Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin'' (revised ed. of ''Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist'', New Haven and London: Yale, 1994) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009.</ref>
Studies of [[Alexander von Humboldt]] came next,<ref name="Humboldt metabiography">''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'' (corrected edition). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.</ref> in which Rupke developed what he terms the [[metabiography|metabiographical approach]] by exploring how a famous life – in this case Humboldt's – may be multiply retold and reconstructed as part of different belief systems and memory cultures.<ref name="Humboldt review">[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7091/full/441286a.html "Lives after death"]. [[Steven Shapin]]'s review in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', May 18, 2006, of ''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'', discussing Rupke's metabiographical approach.</ref>
Rupke is a fellow of Germany's [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina|National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]]<ref name="Leopoldina membership">[http://www.leopoldina-halle.de/cms/en/academy/organisation/members/list-of-members.html Membership listing of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften].</ref> and of the [[Göttingen Academy of Sciences]].
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==Selected books==
* ''Distinctive Properties of Turbiditic and Hemipelagic Mud Layers'' (with Daniel J. Stanley). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.
*''The Great Chain of History: [[William Buckland]] and the English School of Geology (1814–1849)''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=232820|last1=Taylor |first1=Kenneth L. |author-link=Kenneth L. Taylor|title=Reviewed work: ''The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849)'' by Nicolas A. Rupke |journal=Isis |year=1985 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=106–108 |doi=10.1086/353765 }}</ref> {{isbn|0198229070}}
*''Vivisection in Historical Perspective'' (ed.). London, Croom Helm, 1987; Routledge, 1988. {{isbn|0415050219}}
*''Science, Politics and the Public Good'' (ed.). London: Macmillan, 1988.
*''Medical Geography in Historical Perspective'' (ed.). London: [[Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine]], 2000. {{isbn|0854840729}}
*''Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin'' (revised ed. of ''Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist'', New Haven and London: Yale, 1994, {{isbn|978-0300058208}}) Chicago and London: [[University of Chicago Press]], 2009.
*''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'' (corrected edition). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. {{cite book|title=1st edition|year=2005|isbn=3631539320|last1=Rupke |first1=Nicolaas A. |publisher=Peter Lang }}
*''Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion'' (ed.) (revised and much expanded edition). Frankurt a.M.: Lang, 2009. {{cite book|title=2007 edition|isbn=9783631568033|last1=Rupke |first1=Nicolaas A. |year=2007 |publisher=Peter Lang }}
*''[[Albrecht von Haller]] im Göttingen der Aufklärung'' (ed. with {{ill|Norbert Elsner|de}}). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009.
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