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President of the Tennessee Academy of Science for 2007.

Publication: Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Many years ago, a friend expressed significant confusion concerning my professional status. Was I, she wondered, an historian masquerading as a scientist or a scientist masquerading as an historian? As the years have passed, this academic ambiguity has not lessened.

As incoming president of the Tennessee Academy of Science, tradition directs that I submit a few autobiographical comments to the membership. My involvement with science has been as much a matter of timing as of longstanding interest. A product of the post-Sputnik reform of science education, I was early exposed to scientific concepts in the public schools of Arizona. As was the case with many of us educated during the late 1950s and 1960s, the assumption that promising students would ultimately enter...

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