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Chemistry as the Defining Science: Discipline and Training in Nineteenth-Century Chemical Laboratories (2011)

Jackson, Catherine M. (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 35, no. 2-3
Issue: 2 - 3
Pages: 55-62

DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2011.05.003

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Discipline formation Laboratories Chemistry Science education and teaching Industrial revolution Societies; institutions; academies 19th century Germany

The institutional revolution has become a major landmark of late-nineteenth century science, marking the rapid construction of large, institutional laboratories which transformed scientific training and practice. Although it has served historians of physics well, the institutional revolution has proved much more contentious in the case of chemistry. I use published sources, mainly written by chemists and largely focused on laboratories built in German-speaking lands between about 1865 and 1900, to show that chemical laboratory design was inextricably linked to productive practice, large-scale pedagogy and disciplinary management. I argue that effective management of the novel risks inherent in teaching and doing organic synthesis was significant in driving and shaping the construction of late-nineteenth century institutional chemical laboratories, and that these laboratories were essential to the disciplinary development of chemistry. Seen in this way, the laboratory necessarily becomes part of the material culture of late-nineteenth century chemistry, and I show how this view leads not only to a revision of what is usually known as the laboratory revolution in chemistry but also to a new interpretation of the institutional revolution in physics.

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