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Gerald J. Wasserburg, Cesare Emiliani, and Harold C. Urey in front of a mass spectrometer in Urey’s lab at the University of Chicago, ca. 1953. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, [apf digital item number, apf1-08451], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Project (2017-)

Epistemic Configurations: The Formation of Anthropocene Knowledge

This second research area addresses questions of relevance for a historical epistemology of Anthropocene-related practice fields, such as (pre-)industrial chemistry, Earth system and climate sciences, risk assessment, historiography, and the current transformation of scholarship.

 

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Erdöl - Ein Atlas der Petromoderne reviewed in Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Postdoctoral Fellow Benjamin Steininger in The German Times on the future of fossil fuels

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Postdoctoral Fellow Benjamin Steininger in Tagesspiegel on the history of catalysis

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