Survey on the ten best articles on history of science is still open until December 15 that is organized by the MPIWG with a several history of science associations.
Sabine Arnaud, Max Planck Research Group Director, has received the prize of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques for her book L’Invention de l’hysterie au siecle des Lumieres.
In a new joint project with the Universidad de la República de Uruguay, the MPIWG (Department I) studies the „Reconstruction of Liebig’s Laboratory at Fray Bentos“.
Esther Preis und Peter Wittemann have published the report on the 10th scholars' forum on Literature and History of Science at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Jerusalem Post reports on the new publications by Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund on the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Michael Stanley-Baker, Postdoctoral Scholar at Department III and at the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, has received the 2015 Zhu Kezhen Award of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine.