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Programme and Registration for Workshop: Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was no such thing as a scientist.
9 May 2018
Antiqued portrait of Paul du Bois-Reymond in Emil du Bois-Reymond‘s Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität, vol. II (Berlin: Reimer, 1884)

Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities: A Conference Report and Outlook

What did a nineteenth-century janitor have to do to become an acknowledged member of the scientific community?
13 Jul 2018

Events

15 Jun
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Workshop: Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was no such thing as a scientist. While professional careers in science were gradually formalised, many scientific practitioners aspired to none at all.
University of Leicester

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