New Database online: “Color Context: A Database on Color Practice and Knowledge” by the Research Group “Artist Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” (directed by Sven Dupré) and the FNRS/University of Liège.
Jürgen Renn, Director at the MPIWG, was Awarded the “Francis Bacon Prize” 2014 of the California Institute for Technology and the Francis Bacon Foundation (Press Release in German)
Jürgen Renn, Director at the MPIWG, was Awarded the “Francis Bacon Prize” 2014 of the California Institute for Technology and the Francis Bacon Foundation
Lorraine Daston, Executive Director at the MPIWG, was awarded the “Médaille M.-A. Pictet” 2014 of the Société de Physique et d’Histoire naturelle de Genéve.
Jürgen Renn, director at the MPIWG, has received the 2014 Gustav Neuenschwander Prize by the ESHS which is awarded for outstanding life-long achievements and major contributions to the discipline of the history of science.
Two new interviews with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on the potential for innovation in experiments and the prospects of research at universities have been published.