Redcliffe Salaman's Scheme for Raising Virus-Free Potato Stocks: professionalization, institutionalization and regulation in interwar Britain's plant virus research [0.03%]
红克利夫·萨拉曼的无病毒马铃薯种薯培育方案:英国战间期植物病毒研究的专业化、制度化和规范化
João P R Joaquim
João P R Joaquim
This article examines Redcliffe N. Salaman's (1874-1955) efforts to establish a national system for producing virus-free seed potatoes in 1930s Britain. It explores how scientific authority was mobilized to reshape agricultural practices an...
Imperialism in the academy: the Royal Society, C.V. Raman and the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934-1970) [0.03%]
学术帝国主义:英国皇家学会、C.V.拉曼与印度科学研究所(1934—1970)
George Bailey
George Bailey
In 1934 C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, founded the Indian Academy of Sciences in an attempt to create a single unified national scientific society for India. Instead, due to actions of Raman, the Royal Society and other Britis...
Prognosis and scientific imagination in the work of Jane Webb Loudon (1800-1858) [0.03%]
简·韦布·劳顿(1800-1858)的作品中的预言与科学想象
John Lidwell-Durnin
John Lidwell-Durnin
Prognosis is an important aspect of any scientific culture. Speculation and imagination about future knowledge, social organization and technology pervade the practice of science and lend it aim and direction (or at least the appearance of ...
Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner's Nomenclature of Colours (1821) [0.03%]
捕捉色彩的《捕鲸艇贝格尔号》:查尔斯·达尔文与《沃erner色彩命名法(1821)》
Joyce Dixon
Joyce Dixon
During the forty-thousand-mile voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-6) Charles Darwin compiled an extensive corpus of manuscript materials, containing a highly specialized chromatic vocabulary. Darwin's dedicated use of binomial colour terms, such as...
Museum film as a means of making museums: the Exploratorium's early years through the intermedial lens [0.03%]
博物馆电影的媒介考察: Exploratorium早期岁月中的博物馆影片作为一种制作博物馆的手段
Arne Schirrmacher
Arne Schirrmacher
This paper explores the potential offered by a cinematographic approach to the study of museums, particularly science centres. By setting up an intermedial lens that maps between the museum medium and film - particularly the visitor experie...
Liaisons dangereuses: Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and the circulation of knowledge about penicillin (1943-1950) [0.03%]
危险的关系:英国、美国、苏联与青霉素知识的流通(1943-1950)
Daniele Cozzoli
Daniele Cozzoli
This paper explores the complex role penicillin played in the relations between Britain, the USA and the USSR between the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War through the lens of science diplomacy and the category of negotiati...
Two books to trouble the biological - and disciplinary - boundaries that trouble us today [0.03%]
两本挑战今天我们所面临的生物和学科界限的书
Rachel Mason Dentinger
Rachel Mason Dentinger
Veli Virmajoki
Veli Virmajoki
Within These Four Walls: televisualizing museum spaces of science, 1950-1971 [0.03%]
方寸天地:电视中的科学博物馆空间,1950—1971年
Rupert Cole
Rupert Cole
The paper examines BBC television programmes that feature museum spaces of science and technology, contextualizing the development of this programme type in the 1950s and 1960s with science (and history-of-science) broadcasting. In 1971, th...
Visual cultures of CRISPR: intermedial figuration in science communication [0.03%]
CRISPR的视觉文化:科学传播中的跨媒介表征
Avey Nelson,Kate ORiordan,Joshua Kim
Avey Nelson
This article traces the visual culture of human genetic engineering over the past decade, focusing on the CRISPR genome editing technology. We argue that the representations surrounding CRISPR exemplify, and to an extent define, this visual...