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Many historians of science who have written on biography are themselves biographers with direct experience of the advantages and difficulties presented by this genre. Thomas Hankins, who arguably began a historiographic discussion of the role of biography in the history of science with an essay entitled “In Defense of Biography,” noted that: “The biographer of a scientist tends to be drawn either to the personal life of his subject or to the technical details of his subject’s scientific work.
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Forstner, C., Walker, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Forstner, C., Walker, M. (eds) Biographies in the History of Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48509-2_1
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