2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Sunday, 5 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
*indicate session organizer(s)
Sunday, 5 November
Resurrecting Physical Theory:
Approaches to Theory Construction, 1700-1970
(Stanley)
Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles, Vis Viva Revisited
Mi␣ Gyung Kim, North Carolina State University, Genealogy, Memory, and
the Chemical Table
*Michael␣ D. Gordin, Harvard University, A Hierarchy of Sorts: D. I.
Mendeleev and the Periodic Table
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, A Wing and a Prayer:
Roger Babson and the Rediscovery of General Relativity, 1948-1968
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: M. Norton Wise, Princeton University
Proprietary Knowledge in Biomedical Science and Industry, 1890-
Present
(Plaza East)
Jack Wilson, Washington and Lee University, U.S Patents on Organisms Prior
to Diamond v. Chakrabarty
*Nicolas Rasmussen, Independent Scholar, Steroids at War: Biomedical
Researchers, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal
Cortex, 1940-1946
Mark Cortiula, University of New South Wales, The Science of Separation:
America’s Contribution to Australia’s Post-War Blood Fractionation Program
Christophe Lecuyer, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and
Technology, Instrumentalizing Medicine: Physics Research, Medical Practice,
and the Development of Linear Accelerators for Cancer Therapy at Stanford
University and Varian Associates, 1952-1975
Rachel␣ A. Ankeny, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University,
Public Versus Private Knowledge: The Historical Evolution of Community
Standards for Data Sharing in the Human Genome Project
CHAIR: Paul Theerman, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health
Method in the 19th-Century Physical Sciences
(Grouse)
Sungook Hong, University of Toronto, ‘One Faith, One Weight, One Measure’:
Language and the History of Units and Standards
Peter␣ J. Ramberg, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Making
Instruments “Transparent” in Organic Chemistry: The Case of Halogen
Addition Reactions
Andrea␣ I. Woody, University of Washington, Brodie’s “Calculus”: A Chemistry
with No Future as Window onto the Past
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