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Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
MoreThe Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930
No 83
Ammonia synthesis. Central to the mass production of fertilizer and explosives. It has been billed as the most consequential scientific breakthrough of the twentieth century. Historical perspectives on ammonia range from technological development to natural resource use, geopolitics, wartime industry, and social inclusion.
Benjamin Johnson
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Soziale Aspekte eines wissenschaftlichen Durchbruchs: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst und die Entdeckung der Ammoniaksynthese 1830–1930
No 83
Die Ammoniaksynthese bildet eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für die Massenproduktion von Düngemitteln und Sprengstoff. Ihre Entdeckung wurde als wichtigster wissenschaftlicher Durchbruch des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet. Historisch betrachtet war Ammoniak in Bereichen wie technologische Entwicklung, Ressourcenmanagement, Geopolitik, Rüstungsindustrie und soziale Inklusion von entscheidender Bedeutung.
Benjamin Johnson
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At the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
Lost People on the Ming Frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
My project contributes a distinct community of labor to “Ability and Authority”: one that was created through cross-border captivity. This project wil
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
“Reflex” is an early physiological term that was initially used to separate involuntary, mechanical movements from those driven by will. During the fi
Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
Lorraine Daston featured in an article in Tagesspiegel on the 100 most important academics in Berlin
Go To Article (German, Paywall)The American Chimpanzee: Creating a Scientific Resource, 1915–1995
Prial’s project traces the history of chimpanzees as laboratory animals in the United States during the twentieth century, considering how parts of th