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Recounts the life of an American marine biologist who went to Europe to work in the thirties, in order to escape American racism
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'Among the finest biographies I have ever read. Manning's book wins my highest praise...It is so well written and meticulously researched...it is a pleasure to read.' The New York Review of Books
'A unique contribution to not only Black history, but also to American history and to the history of science.' The Black Collegian
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This is a biography which illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science.
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Condition: very good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Reprint. Original halfcloth binding, dustjacket, 397 pp. Index. Illustrated. Biography of an American black scientist (born 1883) who escaped racial intolerance by leaving his job at Howard University for Europe in the 30s. Fled for fascism and died shortly after WW2 in USA. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780195032994. Keywords : HISTORY OF SCIENCE, Embryology. Seller Inventory # 24959
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Toning to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. 397 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). Seller Inventory # 2503240091
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