The material life-course of a scientist

Discussion: The Pleasures and Perils of Biography
- Georgina Ferry, author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998) and Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (2007)
- Andrew Nahum, author of Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet (2005) and Senior Keeper at the
Science Museum
- Henry Hemming, author of In Search of the English Eccentric (2008), and a forthcoming biography of the inventor, educationalist and writer Geoffrey Pyke
(12.00 Lunch)
13.00 Biography Case Studies
- Salim Al-Gailani (University of Cambridge), ‘Domestic Science: Life Writing, Religion and Medical Identity in Edinburgh around 1900’
- Kelly O’Donnell (Yale University), ‘The Muckraker: Science Writing as Radical Critique, 1967–1977’
- Oliver Marsh (University of Cambridge), ‘The Life Cycle of a Star: Media Myths of Feynman and Sagan’
- Peter Collins (Royal Society), ‘Sources for the Biography of an Institution’
14.30 Keynote: Janet Vertesi (Princeton University), ‘Robotic Biographies: Living with/through NASA Spacecraft’
(15.30 Break: tea and refreshments)
16.00 The Biographical Mode
- Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds), ‘Do Scientists Have Minds?’
- Sally Horrocks (University of Leicester/National Life Stories), ‘Do Scientists Have Lives? Oral History as a Methodological Tool for Finding Out’
- Thomas Söderqvist (Medical Museion, Copenhagen), ‘The Material Life-Course of a Scientist’
- Commentary by Ludmilla Jordanova (University of Durham)
(17.30 End of workshop: tea and refr...

Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 5, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: abstracts biography museum studies Source Type: blogs