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IUHPS/DHS COMMISSION ON THE HISTORY OF MODERN CHEMISTRY
                                CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Between Physics and Biology: Chemical Sciences in the Twentieth Century
(Joint Conference with the IUHPS/DHS Commission on the History of Modern 
Physics)

29-30 May 1999, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

The conference will explore the emergence of new areas of chemical research in
between the 'classical' disciplines, and will ask whether the traditional
disciplinary boundaries are still appropriate for an understanding of
contemporary scientific practice. This will be achieved by identifying the
mechanisms by which disciplinary boundaries are transgressed and new areas of
research created. The issues will include the transfer of methods, systematic
vs. problem-oriented approaches, the role of specific materials (e.g. living
tissues, polymers, surfaces) and the way these new fields are being organised.
Leading historians of modern or contemporary science will address these
questions under four headings: the emergence of theoretical and quantum
chemistry, from radiochemistry to nuclear chemistry and cosmochemistry,
chemistry and the solid state, chemistry and biology. Papers will be pre-
circulated and subjected to commentary during the conference. The audience will
be limited to 50 participants. Younger scholars are particularly encouraged to
apply for participation. 

Registration deadline: 15 April 1999. Registration fee: DM 40 (paid upon 
arrival). 

Inquiries and registration: Prof. Christoph Meinel, Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
University of Regenburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
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PROGRAMME 

I.	Theoretical and Quantum Chemistry
 Chair: Kostas Gavroglu (Athens) 
* Ana Simões (Lisbon), Kostas Gavroglu (Athens): Quantum Chemistry in the 
U.S., Britain and Germany in the Thirties
* Andreas Karachalios (Mainz):  Italian-German Scientific Relations in the 
1930's and the Making of Quantum Chemistry
* Marika Blondel-Megrelis (Paris): Theoretical Chemistry in France after World 
War II
Commentator: Nikos Psarros (Leipzig)

II.	From Radiochemistry to Nuclear Chemistry and Cosmochemistry
 Chair: Roger Stuewer (Minneapolis)
* Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Louvain-la-neuve): The Discovery of New Elements 
and the Boundary between Physics and Chemistry in the 1920s and 1930s 
* Ruth Sime (Sacramento): The Search for Artificial Elements and the Discovery  
of Nuclear Fission 
* Helge Kragh (Aarhus): Geo-, Astro- and Cosmochemistry: Chemical 
Approaches to the Study of the Heavens 
Commentator: Xavier Roqué (Barcelona)

III.	Chemistry and the Solid State: Methods and Problems of a New Science
 Chair: Christoph Meinel (Regensburg)
* Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris): The New Science of Materials
* Yasu Furukawa (Tokyo): Polymer Science: From Chemistry to an 
Interdisciplinary Science
* Mary Jo Nye (Corvallis): At the Boundaries: Michael Polanyi's Work on 
Surfaces and the Solid State
Commentator: Peter Morris (London)

IV.	Chemistry and Biology: Collaborative Ventures
 Chair: Robert Olby (Pittsburgh)
* Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin): From Genetics to Biochemistry: The 
Experimental Design of Alfred Kühn's Ephestia System
* Nicolas Rasmussen (Sydney): Chemistry and Cell Biology's Split from 
Biophysics
* Soraya de Chadarevian (Cambridge): Analysing Practices, Reconsidering 
Interdisciplinarity: (Bio)Chemists and the History of Molecular Biology
Commentator: Arnold Thackray (Philadelphia)

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    IUHPS/DHS Commission on the History of 
    Modern Chemistry  (CHMC)
    President: Prof. Christoph Meinel
    Lehrstuhl fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    Universitaet Regensburg
    D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
    Tel. +49-941-9433661, Fax +49-941-9431985
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    http://www.cilea.it/history/DHS
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