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    Institute's Colloquium 2023–24

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    No. 85

    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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    Let’s Talk about Gender!

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    No. 84

    Knowledge Systems and Collective Life: A New Approach to the Study of Science and Politics

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    No. 83

    The Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930

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    Science Social

    Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (But It’s All Interconnected)

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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Positions in research and administration at the MPIWG

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Lorraine Daston's book Rules: A Short History of What We Live By reviewed by Spektrum

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Wellcome Collection quotes Jesse Olszynko-Gryn on the history of pregnancy testing

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Events

Heavens in Your Hand: Astral Knowledge of Ancient and Medieval Coins

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For the Love of the River: Nuclear Ecologies and the Sensory Politics of Green Energy

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China’s Innovation Policy: An Evidence-Based Perspective

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"Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere” Working Group Meeting

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