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- 1972 - 1975 (Creation)
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1 file
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Notes, correspondence, published articles and booklets relating to interdisciplinary university sciences courses, in the UK and elsewhere, including: typescript text, ‘Science, technology and society’ by Alan Smith and Dorothy Griffiths, Imperial College, Jan 1972; newsletter of the Nuffield Foundation Group on Research and Innovation in Higher Education, Feb 1973; prospectuses for science courses at Manchester University, 1973; Imperial College exam paper, ‘Science and technology in modern society’, 1973; notes and reports on the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Conditions, University of Göteborg, Sweden, 1973-1974; Science in a Social Context teaching booklets, 1974, on ‘Darwin to double helix: the biological theme in science fiction’, ‘Galileo and Copernican astronomy’ and ‘Sociology of science’; article, ‘University education in futures studies’, by H Wentworth Eldredge, offprint from Futures, Feb 1975; typescript lecture text, ‘Universities as nerve centers of society’, by John Platt, given at a symposium, ‘the future as an academic discipline’, Feb 1975
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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.