Nicolas Rasmussen

 Bayan ya yi aiki a dakin gwaje-gwaje na binciken ilmin halitta tun yana saurayi, bayyanar Rasmussen ta digiri na farko ga tarihin fasaha da ka'idar ta haifar da sha'awar tarihi da falsafar kimiyya. Ya shiga shirin PhD a Falsafa a Jami'ar Chicago yana aiki tare da William Wimsatt na tsawon shekaru biyu. Bayan ya sami digiri na biyu, ya yi nazarin tarihin ilmin halitta tare da Nick Jardine a cikin M.Phil . shirin a Tarihi da Falsafar Kimiyya a Jami'ar Cambridge. A shekara ta 1987 ya ɗauki tallafin PhD a fannin kimiyyar halittu a Jami'ar Stanford kuma, yayin da yake neman binciken digiri a fannin ilimin halitta na ci gaban shuke-shuke a karkashin Paul B. Green, ya ci gaba da aiki a tarihin kimiyya tare da Tim Lenoir. A shekara ta 2007, don ba shi damar shiga cikin ilimin manufofin kiwon lafiya, ya dauki digiri na biyu a fannin kiwon lafiya a Jami'ar Sydney Medical School. 

An haifi Nicolas Rasmussen a birnin Paris a shekara ta 1962 ga iyayen Amurka, masanin kimiyyar kwamfuta Norman L. Rasmussen (1928 - 2003), daga baya darektan Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Cambridge ta IBM kuma mai ba da gudummawa ga ci gaban Tsarin aiki na raba lokaci; da Laura Sootin Rasmussen (33 -), daga baya mai shirya da kuma jami'in Ƙungiyar Mata ta Kasa a New England. Ya halarci makarantar Roxbury Latin kusa da Boston, Massachusetts .

Bayan horo na postdoctoral a tarihin kimiyya a Stanford da Harvard da kuma gajeren lokaci yana koyarwa a fagen ƙarshe a Princeton da UCLA, ya koyar da tarihi da falsafar kimiyya a Jami'ar Sydney (1994 - 1997) sannan a Jami'an New South Wales a Sydney, inda yanzu yake Farfesa. A shekara ta 2019 an zabe shi a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Humanities ta Australiya .

Binciken nasa ya shafi rawar da kayan aiki ke takawa wajen tsara ilimin kimiyya; Tarihin biotechnology, ilmin halitta da Tarihin al'adu da ilimi; tarihin shan miyagun ƙwayoyi da magunguna a Amurka tun daga 1900; da kuma Tasirin tallafin masana'antu akan binciken kiwon lafiya. An fi saninsa da mayar da hankali kan hanyoyin da hanyoyin gwaji da fasaha zasu iya tsara fannonin bincike, a zamantakewa da ilimi, da kuma rawar da ke tattare da tallafawa wajen tsara fannonin kimiyya a tsakiyar karni na 20 a Amurka. Ya kasance babban mai bincike a kan tallafin Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Kasa (Amurka) da kuma Majalisar Bincike ta Australiya.