The Niels Bohr Archive's History of Science Seminar:

Arctic Empires: Terrestrial Physics and the Frontiers of Science

Thursday 27 April 2006, 14.15
Auditorium M, Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 21, Copenhagen




I'm happy to invite you to another event in our seminar series at the end of this month, in a field increasingly attracting attention among historians of science.

There will be another event at the end of May, which I will inform you about as soon as the details have been settled. As usual, you can find more information on our website www.nba.nbi.dk

Finn Aaserud
Director
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17
DK-2100 Copenhagen

'Arctic imperialism' has become the term associated with Norwegian claims on northern territories in the period leading up to, and immediately following, the separation from the Swedish crown in 1905. Historians have focused on the years from 1890 to the 1920s, discussing the ways in which nationalism shaped scientific practices in this period and, in turn, how science contributed to the nationalist agenda. Here I argue that Norway's experience in using science to buttress territorial claims in the polar regions -- Spitzbergen/Svalbard and Queen Maud's Land, Antarctica -- may serve as a point of departure for an understanding of the development of terrestrial physics in the twentieth century. The science of frontiers -- of establishing, exercising, and maintaining boundaries -- provided the context for terrestrial physics during the Cold War. The American case, in which science and sovereignty provided a matrix in which results in atmospheric physics and physical oceanography were crafted to enlist the world in a series of technological systems, is illuminated by parallels with the Norwegian experience and especially at the points where the NATO partners cooperated in Cold War scientific research.


Bruce Hevly, Department of History
University of Washington
Seattle, U.S.A.

Max Planck Research Network Wandering Seminar:

History of Scientific Objects

Medical Museion, Copenhagen,
Monday 8 - Friday 12 May, 2006.


Der er enkelte pladser tilbage på Københavns-delen af Max Planck Research Network's europæiske vandringsseminar "History of Scientific Objects", 8. - 12. maj. Pladserne vil tildeles dem, der først melder sig. PhD-studerende har fortrinsret. Prisen for deltagelse er 300,-/dag (undtagen mandag), og inkluderer kaffepauser og frokost. Evt. middagsdeltagelse betales derudover.

Tilmelding til Thomas Söderqvist, Medicinsk Museion, ths@mm.ku.dk, senest fredag den 5. maj kl. 12.

MECOBS Workshop:

Mathematical Modelling of Membrane Processes

29. juni - 1. juli,
RUCs Søminestation ved Isefjorden

Program mm. på http://imfufa.ruc.dk/Exocytosis/

Tilmeldning til Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek booss@ruc.dk

MECOBS står for FTP's nye netværk "Mathematical Modelling, Estimation and Control of Biotechnological Systems"

Stenobiografi

Forfatter: Alan Culter
Titel: Steno - En biografi om anatomen og præsten Niels Stensen der løste gåden om strandskallerne på bjergtoppene
Oversat fra engelsk af Werner Svendsen.
Gyldendal.
264 sider,
275 kr.
ISBN 8702035782

Alan Cluter har skrevet en Steno-biografi, der nu er oversat til dansk. Der er en anmeldelse af bogen på Informations hjemmeside. Klik her for at se anmeldelsen:

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