New Publication: Arne Schirrmacher, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published a critical edition of Philipp Lenards Autobiography.

New Preprint by Ana Barahona, Edna Suarez-Díaz, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (editors) on "Hereditary Hourglass. Genetics and Epigenetics, 1868-2000" (No. 392) can be downloaded.

New edited volume: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger has published with David Hyder "Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences".

Six new book publications by research fellows of the MPIWG.

New Preprints by Alfred Gierer, Horst Nowacki, Jens Hoyrup, Horst-Heino v. Borzeszkowski & Renate Wahsner have been published (no. 388-391).

Call for papers for the workshop "Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century" (September 2010).

New Preprint published and can be ordered for free: Thomas Sturm / Uljana Feest: What (Good) is Historical Epistemology? (No. 386)

New "Writing-Up"-Fellowships for Predocs (Dpt. 2 / Prof. Lorraine Daston) and more recent fellowship announcements and job offers.

New Preprint by Christoph Hoffmann and Lidia Westermann on Gottfried Benns Literaturreferate in der Berliner Klinischen Wochenschrift. Faksimileabdruck und Einführung (No. 387) can be ordered for free.

The MPIWG joins other Max-Planck-Institutes in Berlin celebrating the Science Year 2010. The Max-Planck-Society published a

Call for Applications for the "First European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences" (September 6-10, 2010).

Call for papers for Machines of Memory. The Archival Technologies and the Genealogy of “Datapower” (17th- 20th century).

New preprint edited by Arne Schirrmacher on "Communicating Science in 20th Century Europe. A Survey on Research and Comparative Perspectives".

New Postdoctoral Fellowships and Senior Research Scholarships for Independent Research Group "Concepts and Modalities: Practical Konwledge Transmission" available.

New Preprint published by Arie Krampf on "Translation of central banking to developing countries in the postwar period: The Case of the Bank of Israel" (No. 383) and can be downloaded.

Job offer for direction of an Independent MPG-Research Group with Professorship for the History of Knowledge at the Freie University (deadline November 19, 2009), and other offers.

MPIWG is cooperating with the Universität Jena and other Max-Planck-Institutes in the 3D-digitization of the Hilprecht-Collection.

Call for Papers for the workshop "Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries: interstices in the history of science, technology and culture"

Call for papers for HQ-3 Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics that will take place at the MPIWG (June 28–July 2, 2010).

Prize: Veronika Lipphardt, Research Group Director at the MPIWG, has received the Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik.

New Job offer for direction of an Independent MPG-Research Group with Professorship for the History of Knowledge at the Freie University, and other offers for postdoctoral and doctoral stipends.

Prize: Milena Wazeck, research fellow at the MPIWG; has received the Georg-Uschmann-Preis for the History of Science of the Leopoldina.

New Preprint published Fabian Krämer on "The Persistent Image of an Unusual Centaur", Tania Munz on The "Multiple Uses of Geese in Konrad Lorenz’s Animal Behavior Studies" and Jose Pacheco on "The mathematician Norberto Cuesta Dutarirecovered from oblivion" can be ordered for free or downloaded.

Call for Papers for the workshop of the Gender Studies of Science-Project: "Using and Producing Science beyond the Academy"

New Series: The first two edited volumes of the project "knowledge-in-the-making", a cooperation of MPIWG and the KHI, have been published.

New Preprint by Ludmila Hyman on "Vygotsky on Scientific Observation" (Preprint No. 375) can be downloaded now.

New Publication: Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefèvre, both researcher at the MPIWG, have published "Creating Shapes in Naval and Civil Architecture".

New Publication: Milena Wazeck, a research scholar of the MPIWG, has published her study of Einstein's opponents.

New Preprint by Anna Holterhoff on "Naturwissenschaft versus Religion? Zum Verhältnis von Theologie und Kosmologie im 18. Jahrhundert" (Preprint No. 376) can be downloaded now.

New Publication: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille have published their book "Das Gen im Zeitalter der Postgenomik: eine wissenschaftshistorische Bestandsaufnahme"

New Publication: Barbara Wittmann, MPIWG research fellow, has edited the book "Spuren erzeugen: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Selbstaufzeichnung."

Four presentations of the Neuroculture Workshop (February 2009) are now available online.

New Publication: Oliver Schlaudt, former MPIWG predoctoral fellow in 2008, has published the edited volume "Die Quantifizierung der Natur: klassische Texte der Messtheorie von 1696 bis 1999."

New Publication: Emmanuel Didier, MPIWG postdoctoral fellow in 2006, has published his book "En quoi consiste l'Amérique: les statistiques, le New Deal et la démocratie"

New Publication: Claudia Bührig, MPIWG research scholar until 2005, has published her study of Late Roman monumental arches.

Apply for a "writing-up" fellowship for predoctoral scholars 2009-10 at the MPIWG.

New Publication: Kelley Wilder, MPIWG-research fellow until 2008, has published her book "Photography and Science".

New Publication: Jean-Francois Braunstein, Visiting Scholar at the MPIWG in 2008, has published "La philosophie de médicine d'Auguste Comte".

In our discussion platform, researchers discuss new ways of using digital images.

Call for Papers for the 4th Scholars' Forum on Literature and History of Science.

New Publication: Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie by Wolfgang Lefèvre

The MPIWG cooperates with the University of Rostock.