Creating Networks in Chemistry

The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe
Herausgeber: Kildebæk Nielsen, Anita; Strbanova, Sona

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the chemical societies established all over Europe and the process and further development of the these societies before World War I, and in exceptional cases up to 1930. The book offers unique historical material showing the social, intellectual and political circumstances in which the chemical societies were constituted and function, their relations to universities and chemical industries, everyday lives, international contacts, etc. This volume represents the first international comparative analysis on the beginnings of chemical societies in Europe based on a detailed historical research done by a group of renowned historians of chemistry from several countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780854042791
• ISBN-10: 0854042792
• Artikelnr.: 25410233

Autorenporträt

PhD, Associate Professor and Senior Research Worker at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. External faculty at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Prague Charles University Faculty of Science (1990-2005). President of the Czech National Committee for History of Science and Technology. Corresponding Fellow of the International Academy of History of Science. Vice-President of the IUHPS/DHS Commission Women in Science. Member of the Scientific Board of the European Society for History of Science. Delegate of the Czech Chemical Society in the EuCheMS working party on history of chemistry.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: AUSTRIA Austrian Chemical Societies in the Last Decades of the
Habsburg Monarchy until 1914; Chapter 2: BELGIUM From Industry to Academia:
the Belgian Chemical Society, 1887-1914; Chapter 3: CZECH REPUBLIC Chemical
Societies as Multifunctional Social Elements in the Czech Lands 1866-1919;
Chapter 4: DENMARK Creating a Danish Identity in Chemistry Between Pharmacy
and Engineering, 1879-1914; Chapter 5: FRANCE The Chemical Society of
France in its Formative Years, 1857-1914: Disciplinary Identity and the
Struggle for Unity; Chapter 6: GERMANY Discipline - Industry - Profession.
German Chemical Organizations, 1867-1914; Chapter 7: GREAT BRITAIN Chemical
Societies and the Demarcation of the British Chemical Community, 1870-1914;
Chapter 8: HUNGARY Scientific Community of an Emancipating Nation: Chemical
Societies in Hungary Before 1914; Chapter 9: THE NETHERLANDS Keeping the
Ranks Closed: The Dutch Chemical Society, 1903-1914; Chapter 10: NORWAY A
Group of Chemists in the Polytechnic Society in Christiania. The Norwegian
Chemical Society, 1893-1916; Chapter 11: POLAND Chemists in a Divided
Country. The Long-lasting Genesis and Early History of the Polish Chemical
Society 1767-1923; Chapter 12: PORTUGAL Tackling a Complex Chemical
Equation: The Portuguese Society of Chemistry, 1911-1926; Chapter 13:
RUSSIA The Formation of the Russian Chemical Society and its History
until1914; Chapter 14: SWEDEN The Chemical Society in Sweden: Eclecticism
in Chemistry 1883-1914; Chapter 15: Creating Networks in Chemistry -
Conclusions