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Hoyle/Box 23/3/47
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GB 275 Hoyle/Box 23/3/47
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Typescript letter, signed, from Diane Ackerman (Program on Science, Technology and Society, Cornell University) to FH
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- 29 Apr 1975 (Creation)
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1p paper
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Was delighted to see in last week's Time magazine that FH is 'championing the cause of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, whose pulsar work was so hurriedly absorbed by Hewish in what I think an act of gross malpractice'. The issue is less about Bell Burnell herself that about 'the nature of professional integrity'. Mentions Rosalind Franklin's work on DNA a another example of women being the 'dog's-body in affairs of claim-jumping'. Her 'planet-poem cycle' is nearly complete, is including Bell Burnells discovery under the 'Pulsar' entry in the glossary.