J. B. S. Haldane was one of several British scientists that Gary Werskey covered in his book *The Visible College*. Some of the other scientists that he covered include Joseph Needham, J. D. Bernal, Hyman Levy, and Lancelot Hogben. All of those people attended the Second International Congress of the History of Science in London in 1931. At that conference, a delegation of scientists and scholars from the Soviet Union, headed by Nikolai Bukharin, would make a great splash. Bukharin himself delivered a noteworthy paper there. But the paper that seems to have made the greatest impression there was probably the one delivered by the physicist and historian and philosopher of science, Boris Hessen, " The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia ", which would would go a long way to promoting the history of science as a distinct academic discipline in Western countries. That paper made an especially strong impact on at least several young British scientists, including Bernal, Haldane, Hogben, and Needham, all of whom achieved eminence in their respective scientific specialties while also becoming very influential writers concerning the history and social functions of science, from a Marxist perspective.
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