Anke te Heesen, Research Scholar at the MPIWG 1999 - 2006, was appointed as Professor at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.
The Wandering Seminar (Network of Scientific Objects) celebrates its new website.
The virtual exhibition "Albert Einstein - Ingegnere dell’universo" is online now.
Margarete Vöhringer, predoctoral fellow at the MPIWG between 2001 and 2004, was awarded the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Anerkennungspreis 2007.
Janina Wellmann, fellow at the MPIWG between 1999 and 2007, was awarded the Förderpreis 2008 of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
The exhibition "Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe" won the IMCA Bronze Award.
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Henning Schmidgen's essay "The Donder's Machine: Matter, Signs, and Time in a Physiological Experiment, ca. 1865" was awarded the 2007 Schachterle Prize.
Matthias Schemmel received the Georg-Uschmann-Preis für Wissenschaftsgeschichte from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for his thesis "The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics"
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H. Otto Sibum, head of an MPIWG independent research group 1999 - 2007, has been appointed Hans Rausing chair in History of Science and Director of the Office for History of Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.
The exhibition "Atombilder", curated by Jochen Henning (Humboldt University) and Charlotte Bigg (MPIWG), has opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Ursula Klein was appointed außerplanmäßige Professorin by the University of Konstanz.
Charlotte Bigg's dissertation "Behind the Lines: Spectroscopic Enterprises in Early Twentieth-Century Europe" was awarded the Paul-Bunge-Preis of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
The article "Darwinian 'blind' hypothesis formation revisited" by Maria Kronfeldner was awarded the Karl Popper Essay Prize 2006/07 of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger was awarded an honorary doctorate by the ETH Zurich
The thesis of Christina Brandt , "Metapher und Experiment. Von der Virusforschung zum genetischen Code", was awarded the Dalberg-Preis für transdisziplinäre Nachwuchsforschung by the Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
The thesis of Julia Voss, "Darwins Bilder. Ansichten der Evolutionstheorie 1837 bis 1974" was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. Julia Voss worked on her thesis at the MPIWG 2001-2003.
The thesis of Matthias Schemmel , "The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics", was awarded the Nachwuchspreis der Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte.
Thomas Sturm 's essay "The Role of Instruments in Psychological Research" (co-author: Mitchell Ash) was awarded best article in the journal History of Psychology in 2005.
Julia Kursell was awarded a five-year "Dilthey Fellowship" by the initiative "Focus on the Humanities" of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger was awarded the cogito price 2006 of the cogito foundation.
Christina Brandt was appointed for five years in the context of the Max Planck Society program for outstanding woman scholars of February 2006.
Press release on the presentation of the four-volume opus "The Genesis of General Relativity"
