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Joseph Needham's career: consideration of the role of History and Philosophy of Science Chair at University College, London, 1945 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/9/12/10
Scope and Contents Joseph Needham’s file title is ‘HoS Chair UCL’. It relates to a vacancy at University College, London in 1955, also a brief correspondence about a possible role for Joseph Needham at a proposed department of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London. It contains correspondence (including with J.B.S. Haldane, B. Ifor Evans, Charles Singer and Dorothea Singer), also Joseph Needham’s handwritten notes in which he considers accepting the position if offered to him....
Dates: 1945 - 1961