Title: Göttingen and the development of the natural sciences /
Authors: Rupke, Nicolaas A.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Wallstein,
Physical description: 199 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Contents: The geography of scientific knowledge / Charles Withers -- The Göttingen location / Nicolaas Rupke -- Göttingen, Hanover, and Europe: Haller's correspondence / Urs Boschung -- Physics and its history at Göttingen around 1800 / J.L. Heilbron -- From enlightenment to romanticism: Lichtenberg and Göttingen physics / William Clark -- Blumenbach, Banks, and the beginning of anthropology at Göttingen / John Gascoigne -- The development of Gauss' image / Ivo Schneider -- Stockholm - Göttingen: Does distance matter? The relationship between Berzelius and Wöhler / Anders Lundgren -- The development of Göttingen into the Prussian centre of mathematics and exact sciences / Renate Tobies -- Appointment politics and the rise of modern theoretical physics at Göttingen / Hans-Joachim Dahms -- Spreading the quantum message: Born's 1925-1926 US trip / Nancy Greenspan -- Göttingen as a scientific borderland following World War II / Mark Walker -- Scientific portraiture: Göttingen professors in historical pictures / Nicolaas Rupke, Karen Wonders.
Notes: Chiefly contributions to a conference held in November 2000 at the Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
Subject headings (LCSH): Göttingen (Germany)--Intellectual life--Congresses.; Science--Germany a--Göttingen--History--Congresses.; Science--Germany--Göttingen--History--Congresses.; Scientists--Germany--Göttingen--Congresses.; Universität Göttingen--History--Congresses.