Kerne, Kooperation und Konkurrenz

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was characterized by substantial international exchange between the European cent...

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Main Author: Fengler, Silke
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description At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was characterized by substantial international exchange between the European centers in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Cambridge and a concomitant high degree of transdisciplinarity. Research on radioactivity was also marked by an unusual openness in respect to gender and gender politics. The volatile political and social context of nuclear research, which abruptly changed several times, acted to further, impede or block these initiatives to transcend diverse boundaries in science, politics, and society. The two central questions of the present project are: How did the agendas and foci of Austrian nuclear research, and the styles of work of the scientists, change within the framework of international cooperation and competition? How were these developments dynamically linked with the political, social and cultural shifts in European history in the 20th century? The historical analysis starts with the founding of the Vienna Institute for Radium Research (IRR), including the institutes for physics at the University of Vienna that worked in close cooperation with the IRR. The period under investigation extends from the late years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to World War I, the era of "Red Vienna," the "state of estates" (Ständestaat) and the Nazi dictatorship, down to the full restoration of Austrian sovereignty in 1955. The study will include systematic transnational comparisons with the other centers of European nuclear research, based in part on existing literature from the history of science, as well as exact reconstructions of the bilateral and multilateral cooperative links and relations with the international scientific community. In this way, the proposed project is expected to go beyond the historical reconstruction of nuclear research in Austria and shed light on the importance of nationality and internationality, both for framing politics and as mental and cultural points of reference for the behavior and actions of the scientific actors and the production of scientific knowledge under shifting constellations of war and peace, democracy and dictatorship.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-281152025-07-21T15:58:21Z Kerne, Kooperation und Konkurrenz Fengler, Silke Ash, Mitchell G. Sachse, Carola Institute for Radium Research nuclear research in Austria History of science National Socialism The Cold War Radiuminstitut Kernforschung in Österreich Wissenschaftsgeschichte Nationalsozialismus Wissenschaftskooperation Kalter Krieg Kernphysik Radioaktivität Wien thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was characterized by substantial international exchange between the European centers in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Cambridge and a concomitant high degree of transdisciplinarity. Research on radioactivity was also marked by an unusual openness in respect to gender and gender politics. The volatile political and social context of nuclear research, which abruptly changed several times, acted to further, impede or block these initiatives to transcend diverse boundaries in science, politics, and society. The two central questions of the present project are: How did the agendas and foci of Austrian nuclear research, and the styles of work of the scientists, change within the framework of international cooperation and competition? How were these developments dynamically linked with the political, social and cultural shifts in European history in the 20th century? The historical analysis starts with the founding of the Vienna Institute for Radium Research (IRR), including the institutes for physics at the University of Vienna that worked in close cooperation with the IRR. The period under investigation extends from the late years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to World War I, the era of "Red Vienna," the "state of estates" (Ständestaat) and the Nazi dictatorship, down to the full restoration of Austrian sovereignty in 1955. The study will include systematic transnational comparisons with the other centers of European nuclear research, based in part on existing literature from the history of science, as well as exact reconstructions of the bilateral and multilateral cooperative links and relations with the international scientific community. In this way, the proposed project is expected to go beyond the historical reconstruction of nuclear research in Austria and shed light on the importance of nationality and internationality, both for framing politics and as mental and cultural points of reference for the behavior and actions of the scientific actors and the production of scientific knowledge under shifting constellations of war and peace, democracy and dictatorship. Wie veränderte sich die Radioaktivitäts- und Kernforschung in Österreich seit der Entdeckung des Kernzerfalls im späten 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges? Dieses Buch bietet eine profunde Analyse lokaler Forschungstraditionen im politisch-sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Kontext. Die Studie verortet das Institut für Radiumforschung in Wien und andere österreichische Standorte der Radioaktivitäts- bzw. Kernforschung in zwei sich überlagernden Netzwerken: Einerseits im regionalen Forschungsraum der Habsburger Monarchie, der Ersten Republik und des „Dritten Reiches“ und andererseits in der globalen Gemeinschaft der „Radioaktivisten“. Sie zeigt anhand neuer Archivquellen, welche Rolle die in Österreich vorhandenen Ressourcen im globalen Netzwerk der Kernforschung spielten. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2014-12-31 23:55:55 2020-01-30 14:08:48 2020-04-01T14:47:25Z 2014 book 470590 OCN: 952619360 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33459 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28115 ger open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33459/1/470590.pdf Böhlau 10.26530/oapen_470590 10.26530/oapen_470590 Austrian Science Fund 26ae1657-c58f-4f1d-a392-585ee75c293e Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Böhlau 378 P 19557 open access
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The Cold War
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Kernforschung in Österreich
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Wissenschaftskooperation
Kalter Krieg
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Radioaktivität
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Kerne, Kooperation und Konkurrenz
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nuclear research in Austria
History of science
National Socialism
The Cold War
Radiuminstitut
Kernforschung in Österreich
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Nationalsozialismus
Wissenschaftskooperation
Kalter Krieg
Kernphysik
Radioaktivität
Wien
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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nuclear research in Austria
History of science
National Socialism
The Cold War
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Kernforschung in Österreich
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Wissenschaftskooperation
Kalter Krieg
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Radioaktivität
Wien
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