Robert Ε Kohler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3485845 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Ε Kohler |
| PRENOMES | Robert Ε |
| SOBRENOME | Kohler |
| ASSINATURA | KOHLER R Ε |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2590-0553 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Eloge
Introduction
The introduction discusses the essays in the volume in terms of ongoing changes in the history of science. It addresses the challenges of going beyond the microstudy and the historiographical issues that need to be addressed when doing so: constructing appropriate categories of historical analysis, defining periodization, and casting subjects in relevant historical contexts
Paul Errington, Aldo Leopold, and Wildlife Ecology
The subject of this paper is a pioneering field study of bobwhite quail by the trapper-turned-ecologist Paul Errington and the environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Their project is significant in several ways. It produced an influential environmental view of predation and contributed to Leopold's celebrated environmental ethic of “land health.” It also exemplifies a generic type of intensive or “residential” field practice, which involves knowing a res…
From Farm and Family to Career Naturalist
How are scientists made? How, as young adults, have they discovered a scientific vocation and career? Through formal schooling, typically; but in the field sciences also through practical apprenticeship--through work. This essay presents the story of a frontier farm lad who became a career naturalist as a hired collector of animal specimens in the American West. Family and work are the leitmotifs of Vernon Bailey's story. It was family farming--b…
Lab History
After a productive start in the 1980s, laboratory history is now surprisingly neglected-not lab science, but the lab as social institution. To restart interest, I suggest that we see labs as period specific (early modern, modern, postmodern) and of a piece with each era's dominant social institutions and practices. In the modern era, for example, labs have become powerful and ubiquitous because their operating principles are those of the nation-s…
Finders, Keepers
A Generalist's Vision
Many of the recent advances in the history of science have come from local microstudies, but with the unintended by-product of a typically "postmodern" fragmentation of knowledge. The question for us post-postmodernists is how to write a broader "general" history of science-a history for all of us specialists--without losing the advantages of case study. One way, this essay suggests, is to structure case studies around the activities or issues th…
Landscapes and Labscapes
Labscapes
La force du laboratoire reside principalement dans le fait qu'il soit separe de la nature, uniforme, et que le savoir produit dans ces lieux de recherche, soit ainsi universellement reconnu et accepte. Ce precepte se verifie en particulier dans le domaine de la biologie. L'article s'interesse ici aux cas d'acclimatation des laboratoires, quand les scientifiques ont transporte la nature en interieur et deplace leurs laboratoires dans le milieu nat…
Place and Practice in Field Biology
En prenant l'exemple de l'ecologie et de l'evolution, l'A. demontre l'importance et l'influence du lieu de la recherche en biologie eu XIX e et XX e siecle en Amerique du Nord
Cultural Boundaries of Science
The Constructivists' Tool KitMaking Natural Knowledge
The Eighth Day of Creation
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur . Gerald L. Geison
Lords of the Fly
The Molecular Vision of Life
The Right Tools for the Job
Big Science
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Mark Weatherall, Harmke Kamminga, Dynamic Science: Biochemistry in Cambridge 1898–1949, Cambridge: Wellcome Unit Publications, 1992. Pp. 85. £4(pbk.) ROBERT E. KOHLER ROBERT E. KOHLER University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 306-a–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/6.2.306-a Published: 01 Augus…
Sanitarians, engineers and public science in the gilded age
Partners in Science
Partners in Science
Drosophila and Evolutionary Genetics
The Ph.D. Machine
Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry in the United States, 1875-1955 . Dean Stanley Tarbell , Ann Tracy Tarbell
Place and Practice in Field Biology
En prenant l'exemple de l'ecologie et de l'evolution, l'A. demontre l'importance et l'influence du lieu de la recherche en biologie eu XIX e et XX e siecle en Amerique du Nord
The management of science
Lab History
After a productive start in the 1980s, laboratory history is now surprisingly neglected-not lab science, but the lab as social institution. To restart interest, I suggest that we see labs as period specific (early modern, modern, postmodern) and of a piece with each era's dominant social institutions and practices. In the modern era, for example, labs have become powerful and ubiquitous because their operating principles are those of the nation-s…
A Generalist's Vision
Many of the recent advances in the history of science have come from local microstudies, but with the unintended by-product of a typically "postmodern" fragmentation of knowledge. The question for us post-postmodernists is how to write a broader "general" history of science-a history for all of us specialists--without losing the advantages of case study. One way, this essay suggests, is to structure case studies around the activities or issues th…
Labscapes
La force du laboratoire reside principalement dans le fait qu'il soit separe de la nature, uniforme, et que le savoir produit dans ces lieux de recherche, soit ainsi universellement reconnu et accepte. Ce precepte se verifie en particulier dans le domaine de la biologie. L'article s'interesse ici aux cas d'acclimatation des laboratoires, quand les scientifiques ont transporte la nature en interieur et deplace leurs laboratoires dans le milieu nat…
Finders, Keepers
From Farm and Family to Career Naturalist
How are scientists made? How, as young adults, have they discovered a scientific vocation and career? Through formal schooling, typically; but in the field sciences also through practical apprenticeship--through work. This essay presents the story of a frontier farm lad who became a career naturalist as a hired collector of animal specimens in the American West. Family and work are the leitmotifs of Vernon Bailey's story. It was family farming--b…
A policy for the advancement of science
Paul Errington, Aldo Leopold, and Wildlife Ecology
The subject of this paper is a pioneering field study of bobwhite quail by the trapper-turned-ecologist Paul Errington and the environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Their project is significant in several ways. It produced an influential environmental view of predation and contributed to Leopold's celebrated environmental ethic of “land health.” It also exemplifies a generic type of intensive or “residential” field practice, which involves knowing a res…
Introduction
The introduction discusses the essays in the volume in terms of ongoing changes in the history of science. It addresses the challenges of going beyond the microstudy and the historiographical issues that need to be addressed when doing so: constructing appropriate categories of historical analysis, defining periodization, and casting subjects in relevant historical contexts
The Ph.D. Machine
Science and philanthropy
Science, Foundations, and American Universities in the 1920s
Eloge
The Constructivists' Tool KitMaking Natural Knowledge
Drosophila and Evolutionary Genetics
The Origin of Lavoisier's First Experiments on Combustion
G. N. Lewis's Views on Bond Theory 1900–16
In a recent paper on the origin of G. N. Lewis's concept of the shared electron pair bond, I argued that the sources of Lewis's novel conception were certain ideas of J. J. Thomson and Alfred Parson. Yet the only influence that Lewis explicitly acknowledged was neither of these, but Alfred Werner's. The following statement appears in his book, Valence (1923): I still have poignant remembrance of the distress which I and many others suffered some …
The Origin of G. N. Lewis's Theory of the Shared Pair Bond
The Origin of Lavoisier's First Experiments on Combustion
The Enzyme Theory and the Origin of Biochemistry
Biochemistry Molecules and Life. Historical Essays on the Interplay of Chemistry and Biology . Joseph S. Fruton
G. N. Lewis's Views on Bond Theory 1900–16
In a recent paper on the origin of G. N. Lewis's concept of the shared electron pair bond, I argued that the sources of Lewis's novel conception were certain ideas of J. J. Thomson and Alfred Parson. Yet the only influence that Lewis explicitly acknowledged was neither of these, but Alfred Werner's. The following statement appears in his book, Valence (1923): I still have poignant remembrance of the distress which I and many others suffered some …
The management of science
Selected Bibliography of Biographical Data for the History of Biochemistry since 1800 . Joseph S. Fruton
Walter Fletcher, F. G. Hopkins, and the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry
A policy for the advancement of science
Half a Century of Medical Research . A. Landsborough Thomson
From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry
This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline. Drawing extensively on little-used archival sources, the author analyses in detail how biomedical science became a central part of medical training and practice. The book shows how biochemistry was defined as a distinct discipline by the programmatic vision of individual bi…
Science in America
Innovation in Normal Science
Science and philanthropy
Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry in the United States, 1875-1955 . Dean Stanley Tarbell , Ann Tracy Tarbell
Inventing the NIH
Government Science Science in the Federal Government
Science, Foundations, and American Universities in the 1920s
The Ph.D. Machine
Partners in Science
Drosophila and Evolutionary Genetics
Partners in Science
The Right Tools for the Job
Big Science
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Mark Weatherall, Harmke Kamminga, Dynamic Science: Biochemistry in Cambridge 1898–1949, Cambridge: Wellcome Unit Publications, 1992. Pp. 85. £4(pbk.) ROBERT E. KOHLER ROBERT E. KOHLER University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 306-a–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/6.2.306-a Published: 01 Augus…
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