Dr Herman Shaw (1892 – 4 May 1950) was a British

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who was Director of the

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. He was a founder member of the British Society for the History of Science in 1947.Robert Bud
History of Science and the Science Museum
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'', Volume 30, Number 1, pages 47–50, March 1997. Published by

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on behalf of the British Society for the History of Science.

Books

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Applied Geophysics
', H.M.S.O. for the Science Museum (London), 3rd edition, 1938.

References

1892 births 1950 deaths British geophysicists Directors of the Science Museum, London {{UK-physicist-stub