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Material relating to Sir Robert Edwards.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Scope and Contents Comprised of biographical materials, material related to Needham's time at Cambridge, documentation of his work with the Sino-British Science Cooperation Office (SBSCO), materials relatd to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), documentation of research, publications, lectures and broadcasts, visits and conferences, records of involvement with societies and oganisations, documentation of work in politics and interest in religion and society, and a...

Scope and Contents Throughout her time working for Edwards, and also after this period, Barbara Rankin maintained a series of scrapbooks, in order to record the work on human embryology carried out by Edwards and his colleagues Colin "Bunny" Austin, Barry Bavister, Richard Gardiner, Martin Johnson and Jean Purdy, at the Marshall Laboratory. The scrapbooks include press cuttings, papers by Edwards and his colleagues, programmes and photographs on Edwards's pioneering research into in-vitro fertilisation, and...

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Personal and scientific papers including correspondence, research and laboratory notebooks, draft publications and journal articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, videos and film.