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- Title
- Jock Marshall
- In
- Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
- Imprint
- Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 15-18
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- https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/marshall.htm
- Subject
- History of Australian Science - General
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- Abstract
I am writing a biography of Jock Marshall, who was Professor of Zoology at Monash University when he died in 1967. First, I should make it clear that I am not a scientist, not a biographer and, furthermore, I was married to the man. With three such disabilities you may wonder how I got past page one.
It was Gavan McCarthy's fault really. I can't blame him for the initial impulse but the dusty boxes full of papers that I'd kept all those years seemed to be entertaining him so much, I decided to look at them again. There was certainly a wealth of material. Even though I'd known most of it I looked on it with new eyes twenty years later. And it was that gap of twenty years that really kicked me into action. There had been three writers who thought about a biography. None of them looked at the material. Two of them decided against it because they were not scientists and the other died before anything came of it. I suddenly thought all this might lie in boxes for years and so jumped on the tiger's back.
- Source
- Carlson 1996
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- Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details