Miguel DE AsÚa
Miguel DE AsÚa
In fin de siècle Argentina a secularist ideology of science was part of the positivist world view espoused by liberals and socialists. Between the years 1910 and 1935, a period in which the Catholic Church experienced a significant cultura...
Eating game: proteins, international conservation and the rebranding of African wildlife, 1955-1965 [0.03%]
食用游戏:蛋白质、国际保护及非洲野生动物的重塑(1955-1965)
Raf DE Bont
Raf DE Bont
Around 1960, leading figures in the international conservation circuit - such as Julian Huxley, Frank Fraser Darling and E. Barton Worthington - successfully propagated new visions about the value of undomesticated African mammals. Against ...
Archaeology enters the 'atomic age': a short history of radiocarbon, 1946-1960 [0.03%]
考古学步入“原子时代”:记1946—1960年的放射性碳素断代法
Emily M Kern
Emily M Kern
Today, the most powerful research technique available for assigning chronometric age to human cultural objects is radiocarbon dating. Developed in the United States in the late 1940s by an alumnus of the Manhattan Project, radiocarbon datin...
Scientific broadcasting as a social responsibility? John Maynard Smith on radio and television in the 1960s and 1970s [0.03%]
科学传播是一种社会责任吗?约翰·梅纳德·史密斯在20世纪60、70年代的广播与电视活动回忆录
Helen Piel
Helen Piel
John Maynard Smith (1920-2004) was one of Britain's most eminent evolutionary biologists. For over forty years, from 1954 onwards, he also regularly appeared on radio and television. He primarily acted as a scientific expert on biology, but...
Retrospectives: Uses of history of science in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey [0.03%]
科学史在晚清奥斯曼帝国及早期土耳其共和国中的应用
Alper Bilgili
Alper Bilgili
I am a Turkish student of [the] History of Science and have been working on the subject within the last six years for the preparation of a History of Science [book] in Turkish.
Optimizing and normalizing the population through hormone therapies in Italian science, c. 1926-1950 [0.03%]
通过荷尔蒙疗法优化和规范化意大利科学界的人口(约1926-1950年)
Chiara Beccalossi
Chiara Beccalossi
This essay explores how hormone treatments were used to optimize and normalize individuals under Italian Fascism. It does so by taking the activities of the Biotypological Orthogenetic Institute - an Italian eugenics and endocrinological ce...
Sociability, radium and the maintenance of scientific culture and authority in twentieth-century Ireland: a case study of the Royal Dublin Society [0.03%]
二十世纪爱尔兰的社交、放射性元素以及科学文化与权威的维系——都柏林皇家学会案例研究
Adrian Kirwan
Adrian Kirwan
This article, through a case study of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), traces the reception, experimentation with, and uses of radium in early twentieth-century Ireland. Throughout the nineteenth century there was increasing state interventi...
Constructing the 'automatic' Greenwich time system: George Biddell Airy and the telegraphic distribution of time, c. 1852-1880 [0.03%]
建构格林威治自动发报授时系统:艾利与电报授时技术,约1852—1880年
Yuto Ishibashi
Yuto Ishibashi
In the context of the telegraphic distribution of Greenwich time, while the early experiments, the roles of successive Astronomers Royal in its expansion, and its impacts on the standardization of time in Victorian Britain have all been eva...
Jonathan Simon
Jonathan Simon
Although maybe not the most fashionable area of study today, French science has a secure place in the classical canon of the history of science. Like the Scientific Revolution and Italian science at the beginning of the seventeenth century,...
Anita Guerrini
Anita Guerrini
I am the first to admit that my career has not followed a conventional path. But in talking to my colleagues, I am not sure that there is a conventional path to an academic career. This retrospective is both a look at how the profession has...