Article ID: CBB078611471

Émigré neurophysiologists' situated knowledge economies and their roles in forming international cultures of scientific excellence (2022)

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This article investigates the scientific performance and impact of Jewish and politically oppositional émigré German-speaking neurophysiologists from Nazi-occupied Europe since the 1930s. The massive loss of nearly 30% of all academic psychiatrists and neurologists in Germany between 1933 and 1945 also shattered the basis of German-speaking neuroscientific research. A focus will be laid here on the contingency of situated knowledge economies in Central Europe, the UK and North America, as well as their roles in the formation of international cultures of scientific excellence in the forced migration process. While examining excellent émigré laboratory research, the intriguing biographies of three Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologists––Otto Loewi (1873–1961; from Germany/Austria to the USA), Bernard Katz (1911–2003; from Germany to the UK) and Eric Kandel (b. 1929; from Austria to the USA)—can tell us considerably more about the appraisal of medico-scientific knowledge through an epistemic lens representing world history along explicit regional knowledge economies. This article examines some of the more intricate scientific practices and professional patterns of determining academic excellence related to situated knowledge communities in the contemporary brain sciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Aicardi, Christine
Andonova, Liliana B.
Couper, Pauline
Duarte, Regina Horta
Gläser, Jochen
Gross, Dominik
Journals
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Business History Review
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History of Psychiatry
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Columbia University Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
MIT Press
Sandstein Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Canova Edizioni
Concepts
Science and politics
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Nazism
Neurophysiology
Neurosciences
Philosophy of science
People
Dale, Henry Hallett
Loewi, Otto
Cannon, Walter Bradford
Crick, Francis
Eccles, John Carew
Katz, Bernard S.
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
United Kingdom
Europe
Central Europe
North America
United States
Institutions
Institute of British Geographers
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Royal Geographical Society
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Queen's University of Belfast (United Kingdom)
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