NZ scientific heritage special issue - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
The following announcement comes from The Royal Society of New Zealand online newsletter, Alert, No. 955, 1st June 2017:
Special issue available for free online | Finding New Zealand’s scientific heritage: Science in the 20th Century
A new special issue has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, edited by Rebecca Priestley and Simon Nathan. Finding New Zealand’s scientific heritage: Science in the 20th Century is free to read online until the end of October.
Introduction: The lessons of history for the future of science
Rebecca Priestley & Simon Nathan
Finding Matilda: deconstructing women’s invisibility in Finding New Zealand’s Scientific Heritage
Kate Hannah
Sydney Street West: a first place for science in Wellington
APW Hodder & C Hodder
Service to science: history of the New Zealand Association of Scientists
G. Gregory
Mr ‘Explorer’ Douglas and the giant geological map of South Westland
Simon Nathan
Four Mile man: a short note on the life of Richard (Dick) Wright Willett
Keith Willett
Rocks, radio and radar: Elizabeth Alexander and the DSIR Radio Development Laboratory, 1942–1945
Mary Harris
DSIR’s Industrial Psychology Division 1942–1954
John Hearnshaw
The golden dawn of New Zealand oceanography
Keith Lewis
Beatrice Hill Tinsley: breaking through the glass ceiling
Josephine C. Reid