Second Annual NIH History Day
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History Day 2004 T-shirts will be available at R&W stores! |
History Day Lecture
The Seven Virtues of Biography, or: What's the Use of Biographies of Life Scientists?
Thomas Söderqvist, Ph.D.
Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
3:00 pm
Lipsett Auditorium
NIH Clinical Center
Building 10
Reception and book signing to follow
With the formerly NIH-affiliated immunologist Niels Jerne as the point of departure, this illustrated lecture by historian and medical museum professional Thomas Söderqvist will address the question of what functions scientific biography may have in documenting the history of recent biomedicine.
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Thomas Söderqvist is Professor of History of Medicine and Head, Medical Museion, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. |
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Dr. Söderqvist's book, Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne (Yale University Press, 2003) will be available for purchase at the FAES bookstore in Building 10, B1L101. Please purchase the book in advance if you would like Dr. Söderqvist to sign it after his lecture. |
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