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- 11 September 1963-4 February 1975 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence with, and on, individuals including: Herbert Palmer (Feigen Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles) on paintings by Castro-Cid; Dr Derek Parfit (All Souls College, Oxford) on meeting in Oxford, The Council for Biology in Human Affairs at the Salk Institute and the Sub-Committee on Science and Ethics set up by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science; Edith Paul on requesting help in finding a new role for Dr Subodh Chandra Roy (curriculum vitae included); Dr Peter Ferguson MacLachlan Paul (former employee at the Coal Research Establishment) on Bronowski acting as a referee for an application for a job with the Natural Environment Research Council; Dr Dan Pedoe (Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota) on meeting Bronowski and mathematical subjects including orthogonal matrices; Professor Lionel Penrose on a requests from Bronowski for source material on the genetics of diabetes, and for advice for Professor John Lucas whose child had been diagnosed with three chromosomes at locus 21; Michael Petru (student from Yale University) on Bronowski introducing him to members of the Salk Institute and being hired by Suzanne Bourgeois Cohn (Petru's curriculum vitae included); Professor E W Pfeiffer on the American Association for the Advancement of Science's work on chemical and biological warfare; Arnold D Pickar (Department of Physics, Portland State College) on subjects including Bronowski putting him in touch with Dr Imre Lakatos; Gerard Piel (Publisher, 'The Scientific American'); Professor Jack H Plumb (Christ's College, Cambridge) on subjects including writing and editing books; Michael Polanyi on exchanging academic papers; Professor Richard Popkin (Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego) on invitations to a Renaissance conference and talks, and on reading each other's academic writing; Dr David Premack on giving a seminar at the Salk Institute; and Dr Derek J de Solla Price (Department of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University) on subjects including research into the history of the Salk Institute.
Also includes: a letter from Bernard Quaritch Ltd on a visit by Sylvia Hodgson [later Fitzgerald]; a leaflet on books by Dr No-Yong Park; a copy of a reprint of 'Non-Holographic Associative Memory' by Willshaw, Buneman and Longuet-Higgins; a typescript of 'Newton's Health and Confusion to Mathematics' by Dr J R Philip; a typescript of 'As I read them' by George Polya on mathematical and philosophical quotes; a copy of 'Communication between Biologists and Statisticians, a Case Study' by C I Bliss.
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'Non-Holographic Associative Memory' by Willshaw, Buneman and Longuet-Higgins was published in Nature, Vol. 222, issue 5197, Jun 1969.
'Newton's Health and Confusion to Mathematics' by Dr J R Philip was published in Search, Vol. 2, 1971.
'Communication between Biologists and Statisticians, a Case Study' by C I Bliss was published in The American Statistician, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 1969.