Person
Bickel, Lennard
- Occupation
- Science writer
Summary
Lennard Bickel, as science writer for "The Australian", was the only reporter from Australia to be officially invited to witness and record the historical first moon landing mission of Apollo II in July 1969.
Details
Writer about scientists and their work; science correspondent for an Australian national newspaper; Commonwealth Literary Fellowship in 1970 to research and write "Rise Up to Life".
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Lennard Bickel - Records, 1960 - 1969, MS 2721; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Books
- Bickel, Lennard, Rise up to life: a biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave Penicillin to the world (London: Angus and Robertson (U.K.), 1972), 314 pp. Details
- Bickel, Lennard, Florey, the Man who Made Penicillin. (South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983). Details
Resources
- 'Bickel, Lennard (19130407-20020216)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-792908. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 September 2004
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