Towards a History of Biology in the Twentieth Century

Directed Autobiographies as Historical Sources

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ID8393155
AuthorsNicholas Russell (0000-0001-6837-3354, Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume21
Issue1
Pages77-89
Publication date1988-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0007087400024390
PMID11621405
OpenAlexW2003207268
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

Interest in contemporary scientific history has concentrated on physics and engineering and its most obvious growth has been in America. By contrast, there has been a relative neglect of the biological sciences, especially in Great Britain. This concern with contemporary scientific history has been an autonomous growth among physical scientists and engineers. There has not yet been any significant development of an historical dimension among modern biologists. Most of those who do study the history of biology are concerned with natural history in the nineteenth century and before, with the largest group concentrating on the Darwinian Revolution. Students of the history of twentieth century biology are just beginning to emerge, but may find themselves uniquely disadvantaged compared with observers of the sciences from earlier centuries, or even of the physical sciences and engineering in the twentieth century, unless certain things are done rather quickly

Biology · Darwinism · Dimension (graph theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · History Of Physics · History of science · Natural history · Neglect · Science education · Science history · Scientific revolution · Social science · Sociology · Ecology · Evolution and Science Education · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology

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