Interview with Arthur Birch
TitleInterview with Arthur Birch
Reference057000040
DateJune 1985
Scope and Content 2 audio cassette tapes interview with Arthur Birch. Birch describing different aspects of managing the Australian Academy of Science in the 1980s. Topics include:
-Excom
-Advocacy of science (public and politicians)
-How science is communicated (curiosity)
-Tension between timing in politics and science
-Birch's chemistry research in 1988 (lateral control with metal atoms)
- Finance (Bermuda Estate 1.5 million being fund, Beauchamp House funding - Law Council leasing, Ian Wark bequest, Boden bequest)
- President needing to a businessman to manage the Academy
- De Mayo and Barton (politicians)
- Academic Publications
- discovery acting on invention and invention acting on discovery'
- Birch's research areas in organic chemistry
- Funding Rockefeller Institute
-Integrity in science research and publication
-Scintex, Syntax (spelling)
-Contraceptive (pill) research and ethics
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Unknown two interviewers also featured.
-Excom
-Advocacy of science (public and politicians)
-How science is communicated (curiosity)
-Tension between timing in politics and science
-Birch's chemistry research in 1988 (lateral control with metal atoms)
- Finance (Bermuda Estate 1.5 million being fund, Beauchamp House funding - Law Council leasing, Ian Wark bequest, Boden bequest)
- President needing to a businessman to manage the Academy
- De Mayo and Barton (politicians)
- Academic Publications
- discovery acting on invention and invention acting on discovery'
- Birch's research areas in organic chemistry
- Funding Rockefeller Institute
-Integrity in science research and publication
-Scintex, Syntax (spelling)
-Contraceptive (pill) research and ethics
-
Unknown two interviewers also featured.
Extent2 cassettes
Persons keyword Arthur John Birch, Arnold Hughes Ennor, Edgar Douglas Adrian Adrien
SubjectOrganic chemistry, Australian Academy of Science - President, Australian Academy of Science -- Fellows
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