Lisa Anne Jardine CBE, n�e Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011 she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London. From 2008 to Jan 2014 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, but resigned from that post in September 2009. On 1 September 2012, she relocated with her research centre and its staff to University College London to become the first director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities. 

April 12th, 1944 in England (Age 80)