انقلاب خاموش: هرمان کلب و علم شیمی آلی (مطالعات کالیفرنیا در تاریخ علم)

Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifestations of German industrial and political power, rose to a position of world dominance. Rocke portrays Kolbe as a leading actor in the transformation of the institutional and pedagological dimensions of the physical sciences, as well as in the rapid growth of technologically powerful pure sciences. In all these areas there was a sharp inflection point around 1860 when, as Rocke persuasively argues, the primary discipline in the drama was organic chemistry. A biography of the organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884), who played a leading role in the transformation of the pedagogical aspects of the physical sciences, as well as the growth of the "pure" sciences. The text also explores the international dominance of German scientists during the 1800s.