JB: I wrote a book called the Identity of Man. I never saw the cover of the English edition until the book reached me in print. And yet the artist had understood exactly what was in my mind, by putting on the cover a drawing of the brain and the Mona Lisa, one on top of the other

At the National Coal Board

BRONOWSKI was appointed director of the National Coal Board's Central Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard, near Cheltenham on 22 May 1950. The establishment was a new one and was designed to carry out research into the underground problems of mining, coal preparation, brickquetting, carbonization, plus mechanical and electrical testing and researching the by-products of coal. He took up this work on leaving the Ministry of Works where he was assistant chief scientific adviser, engaged in the mathematical and statistical investigation of industry.

Sources: Nature, 22 April 1950, p.631

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