The invention of heroes

Christine MacLeod
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Christine MacLeod: Christine MacLeod is in the School of Humanities, University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB, UK, and is the author of Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750–1914 (Cambridge, 2007). C.Macleod@bristol.ac.uk

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7255, 572-573

Abstract: The Western public's misapprehension that genius in science is always male and caucasian is partly a legacy of Victorian politics, says Christine MacLeod.

Date: 2009
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