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Boundaries, Transformations, Historiography: Physics in Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s (2018)

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The decades of the 1920s to the 1960s were a period of transformation in chemical science. The era was marked by erosion of boundaries that had often been drawn between chemistry and other scientific disciplines. In particular, theories, instruments, and mathematical approaches associated with the new physics of X-rays, the electron particle, and the electron wave enabled chemists and other physical scientists to address unsolved chemical problems of structure and mechanism and to ask new questions that further expanded and transcended disciplinary borders. In turn, the historiography of these developments reflects the pluralism of chemistry in historical narratives written by scientists, historians, philosophers, and sociologists.

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Article Carsten Reinhardt (2018) Introduction: What’s in a Name? Chemistry as a Nonclassical Approach to the World. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 559-564). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Acocella, Giovanni
André, Authier
Becke, Axel D.
Calmthout, Martijn van
Chang, Hasok
De Berg, Kevin C.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Acta Historiae Rerum Naturalium necnon Technicarum
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Chemical Physics
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Princeton University
University of Toronto
Guaraldi
Springer
Springer-Verlag
Concepts
Physics
Chemistry
X-rays
Discipline formation
Electron physics; ionization
Science education and teaching
People
Laue, Max von
Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Born, Max
Bragg, William Henry
Bragg, William Lawrence
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Modern
21st century
Places
Austria
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
Carnegie Institute of Technology
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