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Research schools : historical reappraisals

Title
Research schools : historical reappraisals / edited by Gerald L. Geison and Frederic L. Holmes.
ISBN
0226285456
Published
Philadelphia : Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Physical Description
vii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 8.
Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences ; 2nd ser., v. 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Frederic L. Holmes
Research schools and their histories / John W. Servos
Tacit knowledge and school formation / Kathryn M. Olesko
National styles?: French and English chemistry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Mary Jo Nye
Group research in German chemistry: Kolbe's Marburg and Leipzip institutes / Alan J. Rocke
Vision studies in Germany: Helmholtz versus Hering / R. Steven Turner
W.H. Perkin, Jr. at Manchester and Oxford: from Irwell to Isis / Jack Morrell
Spain's first school of physics: Blas Cabrera's Laboratorio de Investigaciones Físicas / José M. Sánchez-Ron and Antoni Roca-Rosell
The Comstock Research School in Evolutionary Entomology / Pamela M. Henson
Clementsian ecologists: the internal dynamics of a research school / Joel B. Hagen
Sir George Darwin and a British school of geophysics / David Kushner
Research schools and new directions in the historiography of science / Gerald L. Geison.
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