Michael Redhead

Michael Logan Gonne Redhead FBA (30 December 1929 – 31 August 2020) was a British academic and philosopher of physics.

Michael Redhead
Born	Michael Logan Gonne Redhead (1929-12-30)30 December 1929
Died	31 August 2020(2020-08-31) (aged 90)
Education
Education	Westminster School University College London (PhD, 1970)
Thesis	The Quantum Theory of Electron-Electron and Positron-Electron Collisions (1970)
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Scientific structuralism[1]
Institutions	Wolfson College, Cambridge King's College London
Main interests	Metaphysics Philosophy of physics
Notable ideas	Experimental metaphysics[2]

Biography

Redhead was born on 30 December 1929 in London and educated there at Westminster School.^[3]

Redhead was Centennial Professor in CPNSS (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.^[4]

Redhead was an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was Vice-President (1992–1996) and Acting President 1992 and 1993, Wolfson College, and formerly Head, CU Dept of History and Philosophy of Science.^[5]

He died on 31 August 2020 at the age of 90.^[6]