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- 15 February 1967-5 February 1968 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence and other material relating to Bronowski giving a lecture on 'Science as a Humanistic Discipline' (1 Dec 1967) as part of a symposium on 'Science and the Human Condition' held at the University of Illinois to celebrate the centennial year of the University (29 Nov - 2 Dec 1967).
Includes: tentative programmes for the symposium; correspondence with David Pines (Committee for the Centennial Year, University of Illinois) on asking Bronowski to visit the Center for Advanced Study; information on working groups for the symposium; a list of participants in symposium from the University of Illinois; a Salk Institute press release on the outcomes of the symposium ("symposium advises more Science for College students"); an annotated [by Bronowski] outline of Bronowski's lecture on 'Science as a Humanistic Discipline'; correspondence on plans to publish 'Science as a Humanistic Discipline' in 'The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'; a copy of a letter to Professor Daniel Slotnick (department of Computer Sciences, University of Illinois) sending a reference to 'The Computer and the Brain' by John von Neumann; a letter from Harriet Zuckerman (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York) sending Bronowski papers on values and norms of contemporary science after meeting him at the symposium; a letter from T Gordon Scott (department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois) thanking Bronowski for joining a lunchtime discussion; correspondence with Dr Sidney Rosen (Professor of Physical Sciences, University of Illinois) on Rosen sending Bronowski copies of biographies he had written on Galileo, Paracelsus and Kepler; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].