The German research foundation 1920-1970 : funding poised between science and politics / edited by Mark Walker [and three others] ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Mark, editor.

Hentschel, Ann M., translator.

Series:

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft ; Band 6.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft ; Band 6

Standardized Title:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1920-1970. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Germany--History--20th century--Congresses.

Research.

Science and state--Germany--History--20th century--Congresses.

Science and state.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft--History--Congresses.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

Similar to the German enterprise of science as a whole, the German Research Foundation (DFG) - originally conceived as an ""Emergency Association for German Science"" (Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft) in 1920 - for decades considered itself as the politically authorized agency for the promotion of a patriotically accentuated science.The authors delineate the course followed by this research foundation in the fields of science and technology, in the humanities and social sciences, medicine, and the biosciences. Initially this path was revisionistic, after 1933 racist and po

Contents:

CONTENTS; HISTORY, ISSUES, AND STRUCTURE OF THE ENTIRE PROJECT; FOREWORD: THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM; I. OUTLINING THE PROBLEM; "PRESERVE OF FULL PROFESSORS" -ON THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION BETWEEN 1920 AND 1970; II. HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION; FROM "EMERGENCY" TO "ALLIANCE" - RESEARCHING THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AS AN INSTITUTION; "TOOL OF GERMAN WAR STRATEGY" - THE SCIENCE POLICY OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE REICH RESEARCH COUNCIL BETWEEN 1920 AND 1945

POISED BETWEEN SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS - THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE KAISER WILHELM SOCIETY, AND THE ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE 1920-1972FROM EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION TO SERVICE ORGANIZATION - GUIDELINES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1949-1973; THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AS A TOPIC IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE - A COMMENTARY; III. NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES; THE SYNDROME OF FALLING BEHIND - RESOURCE CONSTELLATIONS AND EPISTEMIC ORIENTATIONS IN THE NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

ON THE PATH TO TECHNICAL DESIGN - DFG-FUNDED RESEARCH IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1920-1970COMPUTERS FOR SCIENCE - SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE GERMAN SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM 1870-1970; THRIFT MATERIALS, DOMESTIC MATERIALS, AND SUBSTITUTES - METALS RESEARCH IN GERMANY 1920-1970; THE "FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR CHEMISTRY" AND "POLYMER SCIENCE" - THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH FROM THE 1920s INTO THE 1960s; CIVILIAN MILITARY RESEARCH AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENCE - A COMMENTARY; NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES - A COMMENTARY

IV. HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE BIOSCIENCESINSTRUMENTAL MODERNITY AND THE DICTATE OF POLITICS - SPONSORSHIP OF MEDICAL RESEARCH BY THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920-1970; FASTER, HIGHER, MIGHTIER - PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920-1970; THE PLANNABLE HUMAN -THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HEREDITY 1920-1970; FEVERISH RESEARCH? - GERMAN TROPICAL MEDICINE AS REFLECTED IN ITS FUNDING BY THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920-1970

FRAGMENTATION, COOPERATION, INSTITUTIONALIZATION - GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH WITHIN THE FUNDING HORIZONS OF THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920-1970CLOSE TO THE STATE AND ORIENTED TOWARD THE FUNDAMENTALS - RESEARCH ON RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVITY IN THE BIOSCIENCES 1920-1970; ENZYMES, HORMONES, VITAMINS - BIOCATALYTIC RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920-1970; HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE BIOSCIENCES -A COMMENTARY; V. THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

BORDER GUARD AND BORDER CROSSER OF SCIENCE - THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 1920-1970

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2014).

ISBN:

9783515104166

351510416X