Fascist labscapes: geneticists, wheat, and the landscapes of Fascism in Italy and Portugal [0.03%]
法西斯实验景观:意大利和葡萄牙的遗传学家、小麦和法西斯主义景观
Tiago Saraiva
Tiago Saraiva
This paper explores the role of scientists in the building of fascist regimes in Italy and Portugal by focusing on plant geneticists' participation in the Italian and Portuguese wheat wars for bread self-sufficiency. It looks closely at the...
Genetics as a modernization program: biological research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes and the political economy of the Nazi State [0.03%]
基因工程的现代化方案:凯撒威廉皇帝研究院中的生物研究和纳粹国家的政治经济政策
Bernd Gausemeier
Bernd Gausemeier
During the Third Reich, the biological institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft) underwent a substantial reorganization and modernization. This paper discusses the development of projects in the fields of b...
Autarky/Autarchy: genetics, food production, and the building of Fascism [0.03%]
自给自足:基因、食物生产与法西斯主义的构建
Tiago Saraiva,M Norton Wise
Tiago Saraiva
Early climate change consensus at the National Academy: the origins and making of "Changing Climate" [0.03%]
早期的气候变迁共识:美国国家科学院《气候变化》一书的缘起与制作
Nicolas Nierenberg,Walter R Tschinkel,Victoria J Tschinkel
Nicolas Nierenberg
The 1983 National Academy of Sciences report entitled "Changing Climate," authored by a committee of physical and social scientists chaired by William Nierenberg, was an early comprehensive review of the effects of human-caused increases in...
Erika Lorraine Milam
Erika Lorraine Milam
Biologists in the 1960s witnessed a period of intense intra-disciplinary negotiations, especially the positioning of organismic biologists relative to molecular biologists. The perceived valorization of the physical sciences by "molecular" ...
Longevity, aging, and caloric restriction: Clive Maine McCay and the construction of a multidisciplinary research program [0.03%]
长寿、衰老和节食限制:Clive McCay与多学科研究项目的建立
Hyung Wook Park
Hyung Wook Park
Since the 1930s scientists from fields such as biochemistry, pathology, immunology, genetics, neuroscience, and nutrition have studied the relation of dietary caloric intake to longevity and aging. This paper discusses how Clive Maine McCay...
What does it mean to go public? The American response to Lysenkoism, reconsidered [0.03%]
何谓“公开”?美国对李森科主义的回应,再思考
Audra J Wolfe
Audra J Wolfe
The American response to Lysenkoism took place at a crucial moment in the evolving relationship between science and the public. Like many professional scientific organizations in the early Cold War, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) res...
Graphical methods and Cold War scientific practice: the Stommel Diagram's intriguing journey from the physical to the biological environmental sciences [0.03%]
图表法与冷战科学实践:斯托默图从物理环境学至生物环境学的不解之缘
Tiffany C Vance,Ronald E Doel
Tiffany C Vance
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, an innovative three-dimensional graphical technique was introduced into biological oceanography and ecology, where it spread rapidly. Used to improve scientists' understanding of the importance ...
Laboratories, museums, and the comparative perspective: Alan A. Boyden's quest for objectivity in serological taxonomy, 1924-1962 [0.03%]
实验室、博物馆与比较视角:Alan A. Boyden 追求血清分类学客观性的探索(1924—1962)
Bruno J Strasser
Bruno J Strasser
The rise of experimentation and the decline of natural history constitute the historiographic backbone to most narratives about the history of the life sciences in the twentieth century. As I argue here, however, natural history practices, ...
The "Plant Drosophila": E.B. Babcock, the genus "Crepis," and the evolution of a genetics research program at Berkeley, 1915-1947 [0.03%]
“植物果蝇”——E.B.巴博克、紫草属及20世纪早期加州大学伯克利分校的遗传学研究项目(1915—1947)
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
This paper explores the research and administrative efforts of Ernest Brown Babcock, head of the Division of Genetics in the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley, the first academic unit so named in the United St...