This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern
science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its …

In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision
between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as …

Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most
forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its history from European …

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear
physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to …

The intellectual origins of molecular biology are usually traced back to the 1930s. By
contrast, molecular biology acquired a social reality only around 1960. To understand how it …

This paper accounts for the intercontinental elaboration of French mathematician Laurent
Schwartz's theory of distributions in the years immediately following World War II by tracing …

Conclusion The first part of this paper has shown that the development of regulatory
genetics and the lactose operon model stemmed from laboratory cultures rooted in local …

At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom
launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation …

This article focuses on the French communist scientists' attack, executed in 1953, on US
initiatives for the promotion of science in Europe. Collated in the anonymous booklet Un …

In contemporary history, one way of thinking about academic freedom is to analyze forced
migration and welcome opportunities in other countries that allow our colleagues to continue …