Ian Hembrow

IAN HEMBROW is a freelance writer, researcher and former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. In 2016, while working in Sweden on a book about medicine safety, he stumbled across the story and legacy of Anders Celsius - the largely unknown man with the extremely well-known name. Ian's research took him to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of the pioneering 1736-37 expedition on which Celsius helped to prove the shape of the Earth....See more

IAN HEMBROW is a freelance writer, researcher and former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. In 2016, while working in Sweden on a book about medicine safety, he stumbled across the story and legacy of Anders Celsius - the largely unknown man with the extremely well-known name. Ian's research took him to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of the pioneering 1736-37 expedition on which Celsius helped to prove the shape of the Earth. He lives with his wife in Bristol, England. See less