MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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Wie politisch darf Wissenschaft sein?

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Wissenschaft und Politik: Neue Forschungsansätze in Berlin

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The Evolution of Social Sciences in China
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No 84
Detail from a soil-erosion map

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life: A New Approach to the Study of Science and Politics

Climate change, the pandemic, war, migration, economic insecurity—over the past few years, crises seem to have arisen at an accelerating pace, along with urgent calls for action. In this contex...

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A hastily made wiring duct connecting two labs in the Central European University’s Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna. Photo: Cameron Brinitzer, January 2020.
The Evolution of Culture
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SDGs from the United Nations
Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
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No 83
A depiction of oxygen, carbon and water cycles in nature and another with members of a conference raising their hands

The Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930

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 perspec...

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Space, Women in Science, and the Third World
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