H. Otto Sibum completed his habilitation thesis on “Physik der Arbeit - Arbeit der Physik. Historische Studien zur materiellen Kultur der Experimentalwissenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts” and received the venia legendi in history of science and technology from the Technical University of Braunschweig in December 2001.
Friedrich Steinle competed his habilitation thesis “Der Einstieg in ein neues Feld: Forschungspraxis im frühen Elektromagnetismus bei Ampère und Faraday” and received the venia legendi in history and philosophy of science from the Technical University of Berlin in December 2000.