Research schools
Subtitle: historical reappraisals
By: edited by Gerald L. Geison and Frederic L. Holmes.
Contributors: Geison, Gerald L., 1943-; Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.; University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History and Sociology of Science
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 8; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 8.
Publisher: Osiris, University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Research -- History.; Research institutes -- History.; Laboratories -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Research schools and their histories / John W. Servos; title: Tacit knowledge and school formation / Kathryn M. Olesko; title: National styles? ; French and English chemistry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Mary Jo Nye; title: Group research in German chemistry : Kolbe's Marburg and Leipzig institutes / Alan J. Rocke; title: Vision studies in Germany : Helmholtz versus Hering / R. Steven Turner; title: W. H. Perkin, Jr., at Manchester and Oxford : from Irwell to Isis / Jack Morrell; title: Spain's first school of physics : Blas Cabrera's Laboratorio de Investigaciones Físicas / José M. Sánchez-Ron, Antoni Roca-Rosell; title: The Comstock Research School in evolutionary entomology / Pamela M. Henson; title: Clementsian ecologists : the internal dynamics of a research school / Joel B. Hagen; title: Sir George Darwin and a British school of geophysics / David S. Kushner; title: Research schools and new directions in the historiography of science / Gerald L. Geison.