Catherine M Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine M Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7003-7306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Emil Fischer and the "art of chemical experimentation
What did nineteenth-century chemists know? This essay uses Emil Fischer's classic study of the sugars in 1880s and 90s Germany to argue that chemists' knowledge was not primarily vested in the theories of valence, structure, and stereochemistry that have been the subject of so much historical and philosophical analysis of chemistry in this period. Nor can chemistry be reduced to a merely manipulative exercise requiring little or no intellectual i…
Who was William Hyde Wollaston
"The "Wonderful Properties of Glass: Liebig'sKaliapparatand the Practice of Chemistry in Glass
Everybody knows that glass is and always has been an important presence in chemical laboratories. Yet the very self-evidence of this notion tends to obscure a supremely important change in chemical practice during the early decades of the nineteenth century. This essay uses manuals of specifically chemical glassblowing published between about 1825 and 1835 to show that early nineteenth-century chemists began using glass in distinctly new ways and…
Visible work: The role of students in the creation of Liebig's Giessen research school
Historians have generally confined Liebig's students and assistants to a peripheral role in the development of his Giessen laboratory. This paper argues that these young chemists were essential to Liebig's early success, fulfilling his need for experimental work and producing the apparently independent publications which established the credibility of his new method of organic analysis. Liebig's students and assistants embodied a particular solut…
Re-Examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-Creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
This paper has a number of inter-related goals concerning research school methodology, nineteenth-century chemistry, and the means by which knowledge is transferred from one location to another. I begin with a short discussion of Jack Morrell’s research school concept, and how this has been extended by more recent work. I then discuss Justus Liebig’s school in Giessen, highlighting those aspects of that research school that remain controversial a…
"The "Wonderful Properties of Glass: Liebig'sKaliapparatand the Practice of Chemistry in Glass
Everybody knows that glass is and always has been an important presence in chemical laboratories. Yet the very self-evidence of this notion tends to obscure a supremely important change in chemical practice during the early decades of the nineteenth century. This essay uses manuals of specifically chemical glassblowing published between about 1825 and 1835 to show that early nineteenth-century chemists began using glass in distinctly new ways and…
Re-Examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-Creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
This paper has a number of inter-related goals concerning research school methodology, nineteenth-century chemistry, and the means by which knowledge is transferred from one location to another. I begin with a short discussion of Jack Morrell’s research school concept, and how this has been extended by more recent work. I then discuss Justus Liebig’s school in Giessen, highlighting those aspects of that research school that remain controversial a…
Re-Examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-Creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
This paper has a number of inter-related goals concerning research school methodology, nineteenth-century chemistry, and the means by which knowledge is transferred from one location to another. I begin with a short discussion of Jack Morrell’s research school concept, and how this has been extended by more recent work. I then discuss Justus Liebig’s school in Giessen, highlighting those aspects of that research school that remain controversial a…
Visible work: The role of students in the creation of Liebig's Giessen research school
Historians have generally confined Liebig's students and assistants to a peripheral role in the development of his Giessen laboratory. This paper argues that these young chemists were essential to Liebig's early success, fulfilling his need for experimental work and producing the apparently independent publications which established the credibility of his new method of organic analysis. Liebig's students and assistants embodied a particular solut…
"The "Wonderful Properties of Glass: Liebig'sKaliapparatand the Practice of Chemistry in Glass
Everybody knows that glass is and always has been an important presence in chemical laboratories. Yet the very self-evidence of this notion tends to obscure a supremely important change in chemical practice during the early decades of the nineteenth century. This essay uses manuals of specifically chemical glassblowing published between about 1825 and 1835 to show that early nineteenth-century chemists began using glass in distinctly new ways and…
Who was William Hyde Wollaston
"Emil Fischer and the "art of chemical experimentation
What did nineteenth-century chemists know? This essay uses Emil Fischer's classic study of the sugars in 1880s and 90s Germany to argue that chemists' knowledge was not primarily vested in the theories of valence, structure, and stereochemistry that have been the subject of so much historical and philosophical analysis of chemistry in this period. Nor can chemistry be reduced to a merely manipulative exercise requiring little or no intellectual i…
Historical and Scientific Studies (4 works) · History of Science and Medicine (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · History and advancements in chemistry (2 works) · History of Science and Natural History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)