Janet Browne Janet Browne is a historian at University College London, specialising in the history of medicine and life sciences, natural history and evolutionary biology from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. She is a professor at he Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed two-volume biography of Charles Darwin. The first volume, Voyaging published in 1995, was short-listed for the Silver Pen Award. The second volume, The Power of Place, published in 2002 and was short-listed in the US for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Read More Read Less