June Goodfield

June Goodfield is a British scientist and writer of fiction and non-fiction.

She was born at Stratford on Avon in 1927. She read zoology at Nottingham and undertook research at Oxford. She married Stephen Toulmin^[1] and collaborated with him on a series of books on the history of science. She was awarded a PhD by Leeds, and became Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College.

In September 2008 June Goodfield participated in the launch of a new personal and social history recording website called the Times of My Life. Goodfield gave a short speech on the importance of leaving a written legacy behind and was joined at the event by World War II singer Dame Vera Lynn and actor and explorer Brian Blessed.^[2]

Non fiction works

• The fabric of the heavens : the development of astronomy and dynamics (with Stephen Toulmin). Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press 1999. ISBN 9780226808482, found in 976 libraries according to WorldCat.
• An imagined world : a story of scientific discovery. New York : Harper & Row, ©1981. ISBN 9780060116415, found in over 1000 libraries according to WorldCat.
• Playing God : genetic engineering and the manipulation of life New York : Random House, ©1977. ISBN 9780394406923, found in 1300 libraries according to WorldCat.
• The architecture of matter (with Stephen Toulmin). New York, Harper & Row [©1962] OCLC: 965142, found in over 1100 libraries according to WorldCat
• The discovery of time, (with Stephen Edelston Toulmin). New York, Harper & Row [1965] OCLC: 375428, found in over 1200 libraries according to WorldCat

Fiction works

• "Courier to Peking". E.P. Dutoon & Co. Inc. [©1973] ISBN 0525086854

Notes

1. ^ The Discovery of Time. Penguin. 1967. 
2. ^ Times of my Life