George Nicholas Tunzelmann

Background

George Nicholas Tunzelmann was born on November 19, 1943, in New Zealand. He is the son of Maurice Edgar and Valerie Ann (Reid) von Tunzelmann.

Education

Tunzelmann graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Arts degree in 1967. He then obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in 1970.

Career

Tunzelmann started his career as a lecturer and fellow of St. John’s College at Cambridge University in 1970. He held that position till 1984, and since then he works as a reader in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

Achievements

• Tunzelmann is best known as the author of books Steam Power and British Industrialization, Industrial Progress and Technical Change and the World Economy.

Works

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  • Technology and Industrial Progress: The Foundations of Economic Growth

    (What has dictated the rate and direction of technological...)

    1995
  • Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860 1978

Membership

Tunzelmann is a member of the Royal Economic Society and Economic History Society.

Connections

Tunzelmann married Carol Anne Dyhouse on August 30, 1975. The couple has 2 children: Alexandra Louise and Eugenie Natalya.

Father:

Maurice Edgar von Tunzelmann

Mother:

Valerie Ann (Reid) von Tunzelmann

Wife:

Carol Anne Dyhouse