Editing Jacob Bronowski (section)

== Legacy ==
In 1970, John Cleese says "I'm not Doctor bloody Bronowski!" in the Monty Python sketch, "Exploding Penguin on the TV Set". In 2011, on the reissue of ''The Ascent of Man'' with a foreword by [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Tim Radford]] in ''The Guardian''  described it "as compelling as ever".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Radford |first=Tim |date=2011-04-15 |title=The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski - review |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/apr/15/ascent-man-jacob-bronowski-review |access-date=2023-12-23 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In 2013, [[Cambridge University Press]] published a critique, ''Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956'', by the science historian Ralph Desmarais, who wrote: "Witnessing Hiroshima helped transform him from pure mathematician–poet to scientific administrator ...  to fame on the BBC airwaves ...  from literary intellectual who promoted the superior truthfulness of poetry and poets to scientific humanist insisting that science and scientists were the standard-bearers of truth", but "discussing atomic energy ... Bronowski not only downplayed the bomb's significance but was deliberately vague regarding Britain's atomic weapon development programme."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Desmarais |first=Ralph |date=2013-01-21 |title=Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/abs/jacob-bronowski-a-humanist-intellectual-for-an-atomic-age-19461956/AABCAF105D9507DF10408621076C681E |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |language=en |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=573–589 |doi=10.1017/S0007087412001069 |s2cid=146348006 |issn=0007-0874}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[British Science Association]] launched The Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture at the British Science Festival in September, launched in partnership with the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], to celebrate cutting-edge work at the interface between the arts and sciences. In 2019, Timothy Sandefur's biography ''The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sandefur |first=Timothy |title=The ascent of Jacob Bronowski: the life and ideas of a popular science icon |date=2019 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=978-1-63388-526-4 |location=Amherst, New York}}</ref> he describes Bronowski as more than a polymath, and that he "was involved with nearly every major intellectual undertaking of the twentieth century"; that he was a "serious philosopher" who made "probably the finest documentary film ever made".<ref name="nature_review">{{Cite journal |last=Edgerton |first=David |date=2019-07-01 |title=Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=571 |issue=7763 |pages=32–33 |doi=10.1038/d41586-019-02010-y|doi-access=free |bibcode=2019Natur.571...32E }}</ref>