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‘The subject is still vague in my mind. Is there anything that might be a bridge between Science & the Arts?’ Articles Norton’s suggestion may have been motivated by the recently aired views of C. P. Snow, concerning the ‛Two Cultures’ of the sciences and the humanities. Having initially asked for his bequest to be kept confidential, Norton then permitted the following announcement to appear in the College Record for 1964: ‘Sir Clifford Norton (1910), Honorary Fellow, has endowed a new Junior Research Fellowship, which will be known by his name. This generous gift substantially increases the provision for opportunities of research, the promotion of which has long been a cardinal feature of College policy, and is especially welcome at a time when the need for qualified academic teachers is become increasingly pressing. It is hoped to make the first election to the new Fellowship for October 1965.’ A committee was formed within the College to consider appropriate subjects for the new Fellowship, and returned the recommendation in January 1965 that it be advertised in the History of Science or Medicine – but that if no suitable candidate were found, it should be re-advertised in Ancient History, Classics and Modern History. Although these latter subjects would not have met Norton’s interdisciplinary intentions, they would at least have mirrored his own studies in Oxford and subsequent career. The position was duly advertised, and a suitable History of Science candidate was found in the form of Robert Fox from Oriel, a historian of physics who was then completing a DPhil dissertation entitled ‘The Study of the Thermal Properties of Gases in Relation to Physical Theory from Montgolfier to Regnault’. Fox was elected to the Fellowship in October 1965, and when he left Oxford a year later to take up a lectureship at the University of Lancaster (he would subsequently return to Oxford in 1988 as Professor of the History of Science, and Fellow of Linacre), the subject of the Fellowship was changed to Linguistics or Psycholinguistics. Over the next thirty years, the post cycled through several subjects, all of which fulfilled Norton’s tentative suggestion of something ‘that might be a bridge between Science & the Arts’: History of Science, Linguistics, Economics and Psychology (see Table 1). The research topics of Fellows ranged from the social history of twentieth-century British medicine (Bryder) to schema theory (Bowers) and conversation analysis (Geluykens). Amongst the historians of science, History of Medicine was a particularly prominent theme (represented by Lindsay Sharp, Linda Bryder and Harriet Deacon). The finances underpinning the Fellowship, however, were never entirely robust. From the start, it had been acknowledged that it might be necessary for the College to supplement the salary of the Clifford Norton Fellow in order to bring it to a level appropriate for a Junior Research Fellowship. Indeed, financial considerations seem to have been behind at least some of the gaps in Table 1: the Fellowship was funded by the income from a ‘Clifford Norton Trust’, established on the basis of Norton’s original bequest, but in 1975-1981, for example, the income simply wasn’t sufficient. In 1983, 106 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
Years Name Subject 1965-1966 Robert Fox History of Science 1966-1969 Philip Twitchell Smith Psycholinguistics 1969-1972 Geoffrey Richard Sampson Linguistics 1972-1975 Lindsay Gerard Sharp History of Science 1975-1981 Vacant 1981-1983 Stephen Noel Broadberry Economics 1983-1984 Vacant 1984-1988 Linda Bryder History of Science 1987-1988 John Maxwell Bowers Psychology 1988-1989 Vacant 1989-1992 Ronald Geluykens Linguistics 1992-1993 Vacant 1993-1997 Harriet Jane Deacon History of Science Articles Table 1: Clifford Norton Junior Research Fellows the then-Provost, Lord Blake, wrote to Norton, seeking permission (which was duly granted) to use the capital from the Trust as well as the income to provide for future Fellowships. It was intended gradually to run the fund down, though on at least one occasion money from an outside source was used to subsidise the Fellowship: during her final year at Queen’s, the bulk of Linda Bryder’s salary was supplied by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. By the mid-1990s, however, the money had run particularly low, and it was decided to demote the Clifford Norton Fellowship to a Studentship (i.e. a junior research post ranked below a Junior Research Fellowship), and to make it a non-stipendiary position. Hereafter, the post was to be intended for, but not restricted to, postgraduate students completing their DPhils. At the same time, the post was fixed permanently to the History of Science, and ceased to cycle through different disciplines. But even within this narrower focus, the incumbents of the Studentship (see Table 2) still covered a broad range of topics. The History of Medicine remained a prominent theme: for example, the first Clifford Norton Student, Viviane Quirke, used the post to complete a DPhil dissertation entitled ‘Experiments in Collaboration: The Changing Relationship between Scientists and Pharmaceutical Companies in Britain and France, 1935–1965’; whilst at Queen’s, she also wrote for the College Record (1998) on the work of the Nobel-Prize-winning former Provost, Lord Florey. Two of the subsequent Students (namely, Catherine Kelly and Harry Wu) also worked in the History of College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 107
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THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE COLLEGE RECOR
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Kets, Willemien, BSc MSc Nijmegen,
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CONTENTS From the Provost 6 Reports
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From the Provost As well as dealing
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SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT The College
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In association with the Department
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seminar series held in College. Soo
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and earlier Indo-European and Mesop
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in Japan will also be postponed to
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Bernhard Kasberger (Economics) This
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and was published in June: Rilke: T
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them if they are admitted to hospit
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Alex Robertson (Materials) I’m no
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In January I gave a plenary outreac
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ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes di
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FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS Biologica
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Oriental Studies First Class Hugo C
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COLLEGE PRIZES Alan Webster Prize:
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ADMISSIONS Jon Doye Tutor for Admis
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Page 55 and 56: On behalf of the College, I would l
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Page 63 and 64: A YEAR IN THE MCR President Nadia H
Page 65 and 66: A YEAR IN THE JCR Hattie Bates JCR
Page 67 and 68: Later that term, Dr Jennifer Cassid
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Page 83 and 84: ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS Blues Fred Ne
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Page 99 and 100: PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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Page 129 and 130: KEITH MASLIN Dr Keith Thomas Maslin
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