Forensic books are currently a popular collecting area. There have always been people from the medical profession who have col-lected in the area, but now, with the proliferation of TV shows such as McCallum, which focus on forensic laboratories, we see more lay-people entering the field. Perhaps this marks a progres-sion from collecting detective fiction. … Continue reading Forensic Science Books
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Walter Moore, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry of the University of Sydney, first approached the Fisher Library in January 1990 with a proposal to donate his collection of over 300 scientific books. This was a collection which the Library was only too happy to accept, complementing as it did the Library’s existing strengths in the … Continue reading Walter Moore, book collector and donor
Walter Moore, scientist and author After completing his PhD at Princeton in 1940, American-born Walter Moore (1918-2001) joined Linus Pauling at Caltech as a Post-doctoral Fellow. Pauling was already one of the great chemists of the day, whose seminal book, The nature of the chemicalbond, was to lay the basis for chemical theory for decades … Continue reading WALTER MOORE AND HIS COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARY