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Archiv für März 2018
Front matter
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Masthead
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In Netzwerken von Laureaten. Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zur historischen Nobelpreisforschung
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Paul Ehrlich und der Nobelpreis. Die Konstruktion wissenschaftlicher Exzellenz
Paul Ehrlich and the Nobel Prize. The Construction of Scientific Excellence. From the first award in 1901 until now the Nobel Prize was and is valued as the highest recognition of the scientific community for the outstanding – excellent – scientific work of a researcher. And insofar, winning the Nobel Prize was a highlight in Paul Ehrlich’s life. But from the first nomination in 1901 until 1908, when he was awarded the prize, it was a long way. Between these years Ehrlich had been nominated 89 times by 80 scientists all over the world. The article sketches how excellence has been constructed by using the example of Paul Ehrlich. On the one hand, scientific networks are a precondition for being nominated by colleagues, on the other hand, excellence had been valuated and constructed in complex valuation processes and administrative procedures. The article presents first an overview over the nominations of Paul Ehrlich – who nominated him for what reasons? Moreover, the chapter sketches the relations between some nominators and Paul Ehrlich. After he had been nominated, the nominations were evaluated by members of the Nobel committee. The second part follows the complex procedures of evaluation to find the most excellent scientific work in accordance to Nobel’s will. Finally, the Nobel Prize is embedded in broader network relations and the moral and relational economy of networks, which is exemplified by describing Paul Ehrlich relations to Carl Julius Salomonsen.
Florian Huber, Christina Wessely (Hrsgg.), Milieu. Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017. 184 S., € 49,90. ISBN 978-3-7705-6175-9.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch. 1/2018
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Katja Guenther, Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016. 310 pp., $ 35,00. ISBN 978-0-226-28820-8.
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„Prisvärdig“ Forschung? Wilhelm Roux und sein Programm der Entwicklungsmechanik
“Prizeworthy Research?” Wilhelm Roux and His Program of Developmental Mechanics. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded annually to a maximum of three laureates. Not surprisingly, the number of nominees is much larger. Drawing on Nobel Prize nominations in the Nobel archives in Sweden, the core of this paper deals with the nomination letters for the physiologist Wilhelm Roux to discuss competition and some controversies among German physiologists around 1900 in this particular context. The paper (1) elucidates the arguments brought forward to portray Roux as a scientist who had conferred “the greatest benefit to mankind” in the field of physiology or medicine (as stipulated in Alfred Nobel’s will); (2) examines some other runners-up, and (3) reconstructs why Roux as well as some of his peers were not awarded the Nobel Prize. On a more general level, we argue that an analysis of Nobel Prize nominations contributes to a broader history of excellence in science and medicine in the twentieth century.