清华科史哲讲座第24讲
时间：2019年5月24日（周五）上午10:30—12:00
地点：科学史系系厅（蒙民伟科技大楼南楼212）
主讲人：柯安哲 / Angela Creager 教授（普林斯顿大学历史系）
讲题：A Chemical Reaction to the Historiography of Biology
内容简介：
This talk examines the often-overlooked role of chemical ideas and practices in the history of modern biology. The first section analyses how the conventional histories of the life sciences have, through the twentieth century, come to focus nearly exclusively on evolutionary theory and genetics, and why this storyline is inadequate. The second section elaborates on what the restricted neo-Darwinian history of biology misses, noting a variety of episodes in the history of biology that relied on developments in – or tools from – chemistry, including an example from the author’s own work. The diverse ways in which biologists have used chemical approaches often relate to the concrete, infrastructural side of research; a more inclusive history thus also connects to a historiography of materials and objects in science.
演讲人简介：
Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she teaches the history of biology. She has published two books with University of Chicago Press: The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (2002) and Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (2013). Her current work focuses on environmental science, health, and regulation, with a focus on the role of testing.
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