JB: I wrote a book called the Identity of Man. I never saw the cover of the English edition until the book reached me in print. And yet the artist had understood exactly what was in my mind, by putting on the cover a drawing of the brain and the Mona Lisa, one on top of the other Further References

I see now that the problem of man's status between the world and himself has haunted me since the difficult days of boyhood. All that I have written, though it has seemed to me so different from year to year, turns to the same centre: the uniqueness of man that grows out of his struggle (and his gift) to understand both nature and himself.

STANDARD BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

1. Who's Who in Science Marquis 1969

2. The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Mathematicians Blond Education 1985

3. World Authors 1950 - 1970 ed. J. Wakeman 1975

4. Dictionary of National Biography 1971-1980 (1986)

OBITUARIES

1. The Times 23 August 1974 and 11 September 1974

2. New York Times 23 August 1974

3. New York Herald Tribune 24 August 1974

APPRECIATIONS

1. Reid, R., Jacob Bronowski - an Appreciation New Scientist 12 January 1978

2. Singer, Aubrey, Jacob Bronowski: a Recollection The Listener Vol 99, 5 January 1978 .

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

1. New Scientist 23 November 1961

2. Science, Poetry and Human Specificity: interview by G. Derfer American Scholar 48 386 - 404 (1974)

UNCOLLECTED ARTICLES

1. The Clock Paradox Scientific American February 1963

2. Living through an Intellectual Revolution. The Listener 10 January 1952

BRONOWSKI MEMORIAL LECTURES (BBC)

Georges Steiner (1978) Has Truth a Future? The Listener, 99

Philip Morrison (1979) Termites and Telescopes The Listener, 101

Nicholas Humphreys (1981) Four Minutes to Midnight The Listener, 106

(Lectures discontinued).

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ABOUT BRONOWSKI

1. Vice, J., Jacob Bronowski and Humanism: a philosophy for the 20th century New Humanist 104 (May 1989)

2. Shils, E., The Disestablishment of Science. On Dr. Bronowski's proposal Encounter (Nov 1971)

3. An Intellectual Revolution Etc. 46 123 - 126 (1989)

4. Knowledge or Certainty Etc. 45 43 - 51 (1988)

5. Petroski, H. Numeracy and Literacy: the two cultures and the computer revolution. Virginia Quarterly Review 61 302 - 317 (1985)

6. Gross, R. Bronowski's Humanism: a call to personal commitment Humanist 43 11 -13 (1983)

7. Clough, W.O. Thinking with Bronowski Prairie Schooner 53 Fall 1979

8. Eastwood, B.S. Concepts of Science: a personal view Isis 66 409 - 411 (1975)

9. Ascent of Man Columbia Forum 3 9 - 19 (1974)

10. Science and the new reformation Columbia Forum 3 2 - 9 (1974)

11. Woodward, K. Cybernetic modelling in recent American writing. A critique. NDQ 51(1) 57 - 73 (1983)

12. Topper, D. Jacob Bronowski - A Sketch of his Natural Philosophy. Leonardo18(4) 253 (1985)

13. Moss, S. The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski Science and Public Affairs Summer 1997.

COLLECTED PAPERS
These were held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto and have subsequently moved to Jesus College, Cambridge

RELEVANT WEBSITES

 The Salk Institute - at which Bronowski worked for more than twenty years

The Leo Szilard Homepage - Szilard was a friend of Bronowksi at the Salk Institute



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