Re-Examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-Creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
@article{Jackson2006ReExaminingTR, title={Re-Examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-Creation of a Liebigian Research School in London}, author={C. Jackson}, journal={History of Science}, year={2006}, volume={44}, pages={281 - 319} }
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 and showing how more recent historical work on… CONTINUE READING
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