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- Title
- Biographical Memoirs Published in Historical Records of Australian Science
- In
- Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
- Imprint
- Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 19-24
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- https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/clayton.htm
- Subject
- History of Australian Science - General
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- Abstract
Ever since the death of the first Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, it has been Academy policy to publish a brief obituary notice in our Year Book, in the next issue if possible. With the establishment of Records of the Australian Academy of Science (later renamed Historical Records of Australian Science), the Council decided that in addition to the brief obituary notice, an extended biographical memoir would be published 'in due course'. The biographer is chosen because he has worked closely with the deceased Fellow. I say 'he' advisedly, because of the 96 writers of the 70 biographies so far published in Historical Records, only 2 have been female. More often than not a Fellow of the Academy is either the sole author or one of the co-authors, but this is not a hard and fast rule. In fact, several memoirs currently in preparation are by non-Fellows.
- Source
- Carlson 1996
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- Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details