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The editors wish to thank the European Science Foundation for its support of the programme on the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939, as well as for sponsoring the publication of this volume. Through the subdivision of this initiative that deals specifically with chemical industry it has been possible for historians of science, technology, business and economics to share often widely differing viewpoints and develop consensus across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The contents of this volume are based on the third of three workshops that have considered the emergence of the modern European chemical industry prior to 1939, the first held in Liege (1994), the second in Maastrich...
The 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.
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During the period 1981 ? 1990, important areas of research being recognized were visual information processing, monoclonal antibodies, pharmacology, molecular biology and transplantation. The laureates according to the specific year are: (1981) R W SPERRY ? for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres; D H HUBEL & T N WIESEL ? for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; (1982) S K BERGSTRM, B I SAMUELSSON & J R VANE ? for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances; (1983) B McCLINTOCK ? for her discovery of mobile genetic elements; (1984) N K JERNE, G J F KHLER & C MI...
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A 1999 biography of one of Germany's most important scientists (active 1890-1933) and an historical examination of physics and chemistry.