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Conference Paper
- Title
- Notes on Biography and Historiography of Science - the Life and Work of Michael White
- 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. 29-34
- Url
- https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/mccann.htm
- Subject
- History of Australian Science - General
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- Abstract
In this paper I would like to describe some of my experiences in researching and writing a biography of a scientist, namely, the Australian geneticist Michael White. It is a bit difficult in a paper as brief as this to give a comprehensive account of an individual whose life was so manifold and abundant.
Nevertheless, I think it is always a useful and sobering exercise to be able to precis or summarise the central features of any project. I thought it might be worthwhile to emphasise my own personal experience in writing the biography, and some of the problems I have encountered, rather than spend too much time on the details of the subject matter of the biography itself. I will also include some comments on the relationship between science and the history of science.
- Source
- Carlson 1996
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