English
FrançaisChemistry in the Low Countries in the 19th and 20th centuries
Conveners
Pietro Corsi, Linacre College
Robert Fox, Linacre College
John Perkins, Oxford Brookes
Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes
John Christie
Chemistry in the Low Countries in the 19th and 20th centuries
Date: Thursday 29 Apr 2010 - 15:00
Place: Maison Française d'Oxford
Research programme: History of Science
Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar: ‘Mastering Nature? Chemistry in History'
Maison Française, Norham Road
-Â Ernst Homburg, Professor at MaastrichtUniversity "Chemists and chemistry in the Netherlands,1830-1960."Â Abstract
- Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Centre de Recherche enHistoire des Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain, "Chemists andChemistry in Belgium 1830-1960". Abstract   CANCELLED
- John Perkins, Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, "The Parisian chemical world and the Academie des Sciences, 1750-90".Â
This seminar will be followed by areception and presentation of the Morris Award of the Society for the Historyof Alchemy and Chemistry to Professor Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow, forhis work on the history of the German chemical industry. Professor Stokes will then give a lecture.
-Â Professor Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow, "Over the long run: Reflection on the history of the German chemical industry in the 20th century"
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