Prize: Lorraine Daston, Executive Director at the MPIWG and Head of Department II (“Ideals and Practices of Rationality”), has received the Schelling-Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Awards at the History of Science Society Meeting: Lorraine Daston, Executive Director at the MPIWG, received the Sarton Medal, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director at the MPIWG, gave the Distinguished Lecture, and Dagmar Schäfer, former Research Group Direct
New announcements for a predoctoral position in Department I (Prof. Renn), a postdoctoral fellowship in Department II (Prof. Daston), a predoctoral position in the Research Group led by Dr. Arnaud, and a student assistant for public relations.
New preprints: Mikuláš Teich, “The Scientific Revolution Revisited,” Klaus Gottstein, “The Amaldi Conferences. Their Past and Their Potential Future,” and Mark Geller & Klaus Geus (eds.), “Productive Errors: Scientific Concepts in Antiquity (T
New Publication:> Christine von Oertzen, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Strategie Verständigung: zur transnationalen Vernetzung von Akademikerinnen 1917-1955.”
New Publication: Jaume Navarro, research scholar in Department I, “Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge”, has published “A History of the Electron: J. J. and G. P. Thomson.”
New Call for Papers for the conference “Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time”>, organized by the Max Planck Research Group Human Biological Diversity (V. Lipphardt).
New Publication: Ursula Klein, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Artisanal-scientific experts in eighteenth-century France and Germany,” special issue of the journal “Annals of Science.”
New Article: Anna-Lena Scholz reports on the working group “The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts” in the newspaper Tagesspiegel (department II, Lorraine Daston).
New announcements for a PhD-position in Department II (Prof. Daston), for postdoctoral fellowships in the Research Group led by Sven Dupré, and for the position of student assistants in the Research Group led by Sabine Arnaud and in the library.
New Exhibition: The MPIWG participates in the exhibition of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI “Jenseits des Horizonts. Raum und Wissen in Kulturen der Alten Welt” at the Pergamon-Museum.
