Commemorative practices in science
Subtitle: historical perspectives on the politics of collective memory
By: edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott.
Contributors: Abir-Am, Pnina G., 1947-; Elliott, Clark A.
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 14; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 14.
Publisher: Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Science -- History; Scientists -- Anniversaries, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Commemorating great minds : scientists as cultural heroes -- The; title: Copernican quinquecentennial and its predecessors : historical insights and national agendas -- Owen Gingerich; title: Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur : contrasting images through public commemorations -- Christiane Sinding -- A; title: Focal point for feminism, politics, and science in France : the Clémence Royer Centennial celebration of 1930 -- Joy Harvey; title: Changing practices of commemoration in neurology : comparing Charcot's 1925 and 1993 centennials -- Daniela S. Barberis; title: Medicine and the culture of commemoration : representing Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus -- George E. Haddad -- The; title: Divided centennial : the 1958 Max Planck celebration(s) in Berlin -- Dieter Hoffmann -- Pt. 2.; title: Commemorating scientific institutions : the re/production sites of scientific progress -- The; title: Tercentenary of Harvard University in 1936 : the scientific dimension -- Clark A. Elliott -- The; title: Enola Gay affair : what evdience counts when we commemorate historical events? -- Stanley Goldberg -- The; title: Golden jubilees of Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories -- Robert W. Seidel; title: Commemorative practices at CERN : between physicists' memories and historians' narratives -- Dominique Pestre -- Pt. 3.; title: Commemorating scientific disciplines : materializing objectivity --; title: Bourbaki's art of memory -- Liliane Beaulieu; title: Jocular commemorations : the Copenhagen spirit -- Mara Beller -- The; title: 1959 Darwin Centennial celebration in America -- Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis -- The; title: First American and French commemorations in molecular biology : from collective memory to comaparative history-- Pnina G. Abir-Am.