Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Annette Vogt

Research Scholar

Dr.

Residence: since September 15, 1994


Profile

The focus of Annette Vogt’s research is the history of science in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  In 2007, Annette Vogt published her study about women scientists at the Berlin University (today the Humboldt University) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (forerunner to the Max Planck Society). In her current research Annette Vogt examines female and male laboratory practices in German industrial research laboratories between 1870 and 1933. Her new study explores how scientific results were discovered, produced, published, and used. In her project she considers the question of scientific spaces, the role of scientific objects, the topics of various types of research, as well as different types of publications (patents for invention, journal articles, handbooks, and monographs).

Annette Vogt studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leipzig. There, she earned her first degree Diplom in mathematics (functional analysis), as well as her Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in history of mathematics. Until 1991 she was a research scholar at the Institute for Theory and History of Science of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. From 1992 to 1994, she worked at the Research Center (Forschungsschwerpunkt) of the History of Science in Berlin.

From 1997 to 2005, she served as Secretary, since 2005 she is President of the Women's Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology within the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science (DHST/IUHPS), in 2009 she was elected again as President. In 2009, she was also elected as assessor of the Council of the DHST. In Nov. 2012 she was elected as member of the Scientific Board of the European Society for History of Science (ESHS).

Selected publications

Vogt, Annette. Die Berliner Humboldt-Universität von 1945/1946 bis 1960/1961. Berlin: MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Preprint 425, 2012.

Annette Vogt. "Die Ehrenpromotionen der Humboldt-Universität von 1947 bis 1960/68." In: Die Humboldt-Universität Unter den Linden 1945 bis 1990. Zeitzeugen - Einblicke - Analysen, eds.: Wolfgang Girnus, Klaus Meier. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2010.

Annette Vogt. Wissenschaftlerinnen in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten. A-Z.. Berlin: 2nd rev. edition (=Veröffentlichungen aus dem Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, vol. 12), 2008.

Vogt, Annette. Vom Hintereingang zum Hauptportal? : Lise Meitner und ihre Kolleginnen an der Berliner Universität und in der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007.

Vogt, Annette. "From Exclusion to Acceptance, from Acceptance to Persecution (pp. 11-30); Berlin (pp. 44-54); Academic Anti-Semitism (pp. 197-212); Dismissal and Exile (pp. 213-240)." In: Transcending Tradition. Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture, eds.: Birgit Bergmann, Moritz Epple, Ruti Ungar. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2012.

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Teaching activities

2008 to the present
Humboldt University in Berlin – History of Statistics
1997 to 2011
Humboldt University in Berlin – History of Science