As a student at Jesus College, Cambridge , he co-edited - with William Empson - the literary periodical ''Experiment'' which first appeared in 1928.
Bronowski received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1935, writing a dissertation in Algebraic Geometry , and was a poet (he lived near to Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Majorca in the 1930s ). He spent the War in Operations Research; afterwards he became Director of Research for the National Coal Board ( UK ). After his experiences as an official observer of the after-effects of the Nagasaki And Hiroshima bombings he turned to Biology , as did his friend, Leo Szilard , to better understand the nature of violence. He was an Associate Director of the Salk Institute from 1964 .
He is the father of the British academic Lisa Jardine .
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination''. Silliman Memorial Lectures. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Unuversity Press, 1978.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Poet's Defence''. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1939; rtp. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1979.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''William Blake and the Age of Revolution''. Routledge and K. Paul, 1972, ISBN 0710072775 (hardcover), ISBN 0710072783 (pbk.)
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Ascent of Man''. Little Brown & Co (T); American ed. edition , 1974, ISBN 0613124634 (the book of the BBC TV series The Ascent Of Man )
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Face of Violence''. London, Turnstile Press, 1954.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Common Sense of Science''. Harvard University Press; Reprint edition 2004, ISBN 0674146514
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''Science and Human Values''. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''Insight''. Harper & Row; American ed. edition , 1964, ASIN B0007DO1YG (the book of the BBC TV series Insight)
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''The Identity of Man''. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1965.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''Nature and Knowledge: The Philosophy of Contemporary Science''.Condon lectures, Oregon State System of Higher Education, 1969.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''William Blake: A man without a mask''. London: Secker and Warburg, 1943.
- Bronowski, J. and Mazlish, B. ''The Western Intellectual Tradition''. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960.
- Bronowski, Jacob. ''A Sense of the Future''. Cambridge, Mk MIT Press, 1977.
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