File 18 - General Correspondence: N-O

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Comprises correspondence with, and on, individuals and some organisations including: Dr Keiko Nakamura (Mitsubishi-Kasei Institute of Life Science, Tokyo) on arranging to visit Bronowski (Bronowski died before the visit); National Science Foundation on Bronowski reviewing research funding applications for them; Richard J Neutra (Architect) on arranging for a film that he made to be shown on National Educational Television; a letter from Bronowski to James R Newman on a book of literary criticism by Jan Kott; M H A [Max] Newman on Gödel's theorem and [Alan] Turing; Charles T Newton on his appointment to the National Aeronautical Corporation (press release included), leaving General Dynamics and arranging lunches with Bronowski; Simon Nicholson on his work in design education at the University of California at Berkeley and Bronowski recommending him to the University of California in San Diego; Kathleen Nott on subjects including party invitations; Rudi Nussbaum (Department of Physics, University of Washington) on Bronowski's article 'The Machinery of Nature' (later incorporated as a chapter in 'The Identity of Man'); Ned O'Gorman asking for advice from Bronowski and contributions to his book on "essays in revolution" (outline included); Dr Kathleen Ollerenshaw on her visit to the United States (1965); Willem L Oltmans (A W Bruna & Zoons Uitgeversmij, Amsterdam) on wanting to interview Bronowski for inclusion in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on "limits to growth"; Dr Manuel Ortega (Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City) with copies of correspondence between Bronowski and Dr Eric Fromm (Mexico City); E A Osborne of Dawson's of Pall Mall on wanting to include Jonas Salk's research into the polio vaccine in a catalogue of books on science.

Also includes: a research proposal on technology as a discipline by Rex A Nelson (Georgia Southern College); a document about the aims and purposes of the Richard J Neutra Institute; a paper on the International Information Institute; a reprint of 'Scientific Concepts and Social Structure in Ancient Greece' by Professor Karl Niebyl; a copy of 'Ein Tisch ist Ein Tisch' and the translation 'Table is a Table' by Peter Bichsel.

The signature has been cut out of a letter from Kathleen Nott dated 14 Oct 1968.

See Bronowski 3/2/8 for further correspondence with Dr Eric Fromm.

'Scientific Concepts and Social Structure in Ancient Greece' by Niebyl was published in R J Seeger and R S Cohen (eds.) 'Philosophical Foundations of Science' (1974).