The Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Gowing (Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Reginald Victor Jones (Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford), William Drummond MacDonald Paton (Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-131 |
| Publication date | 1979-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.1979.0007 |
| PMID | 11610641 |
| OpenAlex | W1994199232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In the early 1960s several people began to worry about the records of contemporary scientists and engineers; ‘contemporary’ for this purpose is defined as those who died after 1945. It was clear that this generation of scientists and engineers had changed history in all kinds of ways and yet no systematic efforts were being made to preserve their papers. The papers even of minor politicians poets and novelists were by contrast eagerly sought. I remember that my own concern dated from a visit to James Chadwick who, besides being a great scientist, had played a crucial diplomatic and administrative role in the wartime and postwar atomic project. He had retired to North Wales and showed me his attic lined with filing cabinets but when I asked what he was going to do with them, he gloomily replied ‘burn them’. (They were subsequently preserved)
Minor (academic) · Political science · Sociology · History · Law · Research Data Management Practices
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2015 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |