File 33-36 - 'What is science trying to do, and why?'

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THMG/H/33-36

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'What is science trying to do, and why?'

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  • 1961–1964 (Creation)

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Thomson, Sir George Paget (1892-1975), knight, physicist and Nobel laureate
(1892-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Ms. and typescript drafts.
This lecture, with some variations of title, was given at several times and places by Thomson
It formed the substance of a Ferguson lecture given at Washington University, 1961 (H.33), and of the second of his lectures at the University of Malta, 1963 (H.34, see also H.27, H.28). It was given in New Zealand and in Bangor 1964 (H.35), and at a meeting of the British Association in Sheffield, n.d. (H.36).

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