Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

2910. LAZAROV, D., P. BONCHEV, B.V. TOSHEV,
G. PETROV, and St. KARAIVANOV. The Temple of
the Chemists. (240 pp.) Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski
Univ. Press, 2002. ISBN: 9540716853.
History of the chemistry faculty of St. Kliment Ohridski
University of Sofia, Bulgaria, written by five of its most
senior faculty.
2911. LORENTZ, Bernhard, and Paul ERKER. Chemie
und Politik: die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke
Hüls 1938 bis 1979: eine Studie zum Problem der
corporate governance. (461 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
München: C.H. Beck, 2003. ISBN: 3406509622.
Reviews: [ref. 3369]
2912. LYKKNES, Annette, Lise KVITTINGEN, and
Anne Kristine BØRRESEN. “Ellen Gleditsch: Duty
and Responsibility in a Research and Teaching Career,
1916–1946.” Hist. Stud. Phys. Biol. Sci. 36
(2005): 131–188.
2913. MANCHESTER, Keith L. “The Crystallization
of Enzymes and Virus Proteins: Laying to Rest the
Colloidal Concept of Living Systems.” Endeavour 28
(2004): 25–29.
2914. ONISHI Hiroshi. “Early Usage of Mole,
Loschmidt Number, and Avogadro Constant (or Number).”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakushi Ken.
(Chem.) 31 (2004): 35–39.
See also ONISHI Hiroshi, “Mole, Past and Present” Kagakushi
Ken. (Chem.) 29 (2002): 254–258.
2915. PARASCANDOLA, John. “Chemistry and
Medicine: The NIH Division of Chemistry, 1905–
1947.” Pharm. Hist. 46 (2004): 62–70.
2916. RAE, Ian D. “Chemistry in Australia: Growing
Up, Down Under.” Special Issue: Shifting Centres
and Emerging Peripheries [ref. 2903]. Ambix 52
(2005): 7–25.
2917. SHIRAKAWA Hideki. “The Discovery of Polyacetylene
Film, The Dawning of an Era of Conducting
Polymers.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43 (2004): 221–234.
2918. TRAVIS, Anthony S. Dyes Made in America,
1915–1980: The Calco Chemical Company, American
Cyanamid and the Raritan River. (xiv + 582
pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index.) Jerusalem: Sidney M.
Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of
Science, Technology and Medicine at The Hebrew
Univ. of Jerusalem in conjunction with the Hexagon
Press, 2004. ISBN: 9655551490.
Reviews: [ref. 3369]
2919. WILHOLT, Torsten. “Explaining Models: Theoretical
and Phenomenological Models and Their
Role for the First Explanation of the Hydrogen Spectrum.”
Found. Chem. 7 (2005): 149–169.
Concerns models “derived from an experimental tradition
related to 19th century chemistry.”
2920. WOODYARD, Jack R. “A New Paradigm for
Schrödinger and Kohn.” In BAIRD et al. [ref. 371],
245–269.
2921. XIE Zhen-sheng. “A Memorable Scholar in the
History of Modern Chemistry in China: Yu Heqin.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao
25 (2004): 209–215.
Introduced Chinese readers to the periodic system of elements
and established terminology for organic compounds.
370. Twentieth century 135
2922. YAUN Zhendong. “Chemistry Forum Sponsored
by Ministry of Education in 1932: A Mark
of the Establishment of Modern Chinese Chemical
Community.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran
Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 236–248.
2923. YOSHIHARA, H. Kenji, Teiji KOBAYASI, and
Masanori KAJI. “Ogawa Family and Their ‘Nipponium’
Research: Successful Separation of the Element
75 before Its Discovery by Noddacks.” Hist.
Scientiarum 15 (2005): 177–190.
2924. YUAN Zhendong. “The Constitution of the
Chemistry Institute of Academia Sinica: An Attempt
at the Institutionalization and Professionalization
of Chemical Research in Republican China, 1927–
1937.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist.
Sci. Tech. 27 (2006): 95–114.
2925. ZAITSEVA, Elena A., and Ernst HOMBURG.
“Catalytic Chemistry under Stalin: Science and Scientists
in Times of Repression.” Special Issue: Shifting
Centres and Emerging Peripheries [ref. 2903].
Ambix 52 (2005): 45–65.
2926. ZHANG Hao. “The Unification of Chinese
Chemical Nomenclature, 1912–1945.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 24 (2003):
123–131.
2927. ZHANG Hao. “Yu Heqin’s Organic Chemistry
Terms: A New Beginning of Chinese Systematic
Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 26
(2005): 222–230.
370-120. EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2928. BUFFETAUT, Eric. “Continental Drift under
the Third Reich.” Endeavour 27 (2003): 171–174.
2929. CAMERON, Richard L. “The Foundations of
Antarctic Glaciology.” Arch. Natur. Hist. 32 (2005):
231–244.
2930. CAREY, Mark Palmer. “People and Glaciers
in the Peruvian Andes: A History of Climate Change
and Natural Disasters, 1941–1980.” Diss. Abstr. Int.
A 66/07 (2006): 2691.
Dissertation at the University of California, Davis, 2005.
Adviser: Walker, Charles F. UMI pub. no. 3182466. 302 pp.
2931. CULLEN, Vicky. Down to the Sea for Science:
75 Years of Ocean Research, Education, and Exploration
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
(ix + 174 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Woods Hole, Mass.:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2005. ISBN:
1880224097.
2932. DU Ru-lin and LIU Ya-min. “Wang Yuelun’s
Contributions to the Study of Precambrian Geology
in China.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo
Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 146–152.
2933. HARPER, Kristine C. “Boundaries of Research:
Civilian Leadership, Military Funding, and
the International Network Surrounding the Development
of Numerical Weather Prediction in the United
States.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/02 (2004): 670.
Dissertation at Oregon State University, 2004. Adviser: Doel,
Ronald E. UMI pub. no. 3120758. 490 pp.
2934. HARPER, Kristine C. “Meteorology’s Struggle
for Professional Recognition in the USA (1900–
1950).” Ann. Sci. 63 (2006): 179–199.