The invention of heroes

The Western public's misapprehension that genius in science is always male and caucasian is partly a legacy of Victorian politics, says Christine MacLeod.

  • MacLeod, Christine

  • 1Christine MacLeod is in the School of Humanities, University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB, UK, and is the author of Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (Cambridge, 2007). e-mail: [email protected]

Published online 29 July 2009

Nature 460(7255):p 572-573, July 30, 2009. | DOI: 10.1038/460572a
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