Living with your biographical subject: Special problems of distance, privacy and trust in the biography of G. Ledyard Stebbins Jr.

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-438

  Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Historiography of biology; Oral history; Recent science; Science biography; Stebbins, G. Ledyard Jr.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033509578     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004731419724     Document Type: Article

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