• Photograph of Tilli Tansey, Lesley Rees, Howard Morris, and John Hughes at the Witness Seminar “Endogenous Opiates” held by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group

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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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    Institute's Colloquium 2023–24

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  • Detail from a soil-erosion map

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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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  • A depiction of oxygen, carbon and water cycles in nature and another with members of a conference raising their hands

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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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FAZ reviews Birgit Kolboske's book Hierarchien. Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter mit dem Harnack-Prinzip 

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Opportunities at the MPIWG in research, digital humanities, research coordination, IT and administration

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Journalist in Residence alumna Elna Schütz reflects on her experience at MPIWG in an article for IJNet

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The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, and Architecture

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"Household Encyclopedia" Primary Source Reading Group

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Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry

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The Social and Biological Locus of Innovation

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