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.
Jürgen Renn’s presentation at the “Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics” on “The Genesis and Renaissance of General Relativity” is now available online.
Philipp Lehmann, research scholar at the MPIWG (Dpt. 2), received the Rachel Carson Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for his Dissertation.
Call for papers for the conference Testing Hearing: Science, Art, Industry to be held at the MPIWG on December 4-5, 2015, organized by the Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”.
Sabine Arnaud, Research Group Director at the MPIWG, receives the prize of l’Académie de Médecine et de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine for her book L’Invention de l’Hystérie au temps des Lumières (2014).
