Media & Press Archive The MPIWG in the Media Press Releases Media & Press Overview Deputy Head, Communications Team Stephanie Hood +49 30 22667 242/315 public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Archived Media by Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2009 Filter & Sort Category - Any -Call for PapersExternal EventIn the MediaNew PublicationPress ReleaseCareerInstitute News Unit - Any -Dept. IDept. IIDept. IIIAdministrationArt and Knowledge in Pre–Modern EuropeBetween Knowledge and Innovation: The Unequal-Armed BalanceComputational History of ScienceConcepts and Modalities: Practical Knowledge TransmissionConstructions of the Brain: The Emergence of the Neurological AdolescentDept. DastonDept. RheinbergerDigital HumanitiesEpistemes of Modern AcousticsExperimental History of ScienceIMPRSIT SupportLibraryLise Meitner Research GroupMax Planck Research Group (ASTRA)Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)Max Planck Research Program (GMPG)Modern Geometry and the Concept of SpaceReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern EuropeResearch Communication and ManagementResearch Group (Data, Media, Mind)The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United StatesTwentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation December 2017 Dec 23, 2017 24. Dezember 1938: Weihnachtsspaziergang ins Atomzeitalter Der Standard An article on Lise Meitner’s and Otto Frisch’s discovery of nuclear fission, quoting Annette Vogt Read Article Dec 21, 2017 Kleine Teilchen – Große Hoffnung RBB Kulturradio Director Jürgen Renn contributes to RBB Kulturradio feature on quantum physics Go to Website Dec 21, 2017 Modell für mehr Miteinander MPG Article by Max Planck Society explores MPIWG Convivencia project with other Max Planck Institutes Read Article Dec 2, 2017 “Antropoceno: E se formos os últimos seres vivos a alterar a Terra?” Publico Executive Director Jürgen Renn and “Anthropocene Curriculum” cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt featured in article on Anthropocene Go to Article Dec 2, 2017 “Die Einläutung des Atomzeitalters” Deutschlandfunk Visiting Scholar Horst Kant quoted in article on the beginning of the Atomic Age Read Article Dec 2, 2017 “Die Welt als Muskel und Bewegung” Neues Deutschland Review of Emeritus Scientific Member Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s book Der Kupferstecher und der Philosoph. Albert Flocon trifft Gaston Bachelard Read Review Dec 1, 2017 “A Rapid Transition of the World’s Energy Systems” in Nature Outlook Nature Outlook Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol, and Benjamin Steininger on energy and societal change Read Article November 2017 Nov 30, 2017 “Das trügerische Gefühl der bevorstehenden Katastrophe” Deutschlandfunk Director Lorraine Daston interviewed on the effect of climate change on nature Read Article Nov 30, 2017 Ein Füllhorn des 20. Jahrhunderts TAZ Benjamin Steininger on coal chemistry and petrochemistry in the 1920s Go to Articles Nov 30, 2017 “Ammoniak und seine Synthese” Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau Jürgen Renn, Benjamin Johnson, and Benjamin Steininger on ammonia synthesiss Read Article Nov 29, 2017 “The Invention of Objectivity” Rhetorical Questions Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison trace the history of objectivity Go to Podcast Nov 26, 2017 “Gibt es die eine Wahrheit?” Sternstunde Philosophie, SRF Lorraine Daston and Ilja Trojanow interviewed by SRF on fake news Go to Video Nov 22, 2017 “Rationales Verhalten lernt man im Labyrinth der Forschung” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on a newly published collection of 1930s texts written by Gaston Bachelard Read Article Nov 22, 2017 “In Publica Commoda - zum Wohle aller” NDR Info Emeritus Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on the nature and role of science in society Go to Mediathek Nov 5, 2017 “Una Biblioteca Unica al Mondo” Il Quotidiano del Sud An article by Jürgen Renn, Director at the MPIWG, about the foundation of a special digital library Read article Nov 5, 2017 “Historia Obscura” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Research Scholar Sonja Brentjes on the presentation of Islamic History at Berlin Science Week Read Article October 2017 Oct 27, 2017 “Alternative Fakten: Die falsche Verklärung des Gelehrten Ibn al-Haytham” Der Tagesspiegel Sonja Brentjes, Senior Research Scholar at the MPIWG, critizes statements about Islamic history of science at the Berlin Science Week Read Article Oct 24, 2017 “Nützliches Wissen. Die Erfindung der Technikwissenschaften” hsozkult Ursula Klein’s book is reviewed Read Review Oct 17, 2017 “Du lebst und tust mir nichts?” FAZ Hans-Jörg Rheinberger mentioned in article about dioramas and the relation between visual arts and stuffed animals Read Article Oct 11, 2017 “What Yemen can Learn from the Historical Experience of Cholera” The Conversation UK Postdoctoral Fellow Edna Bonhomme in The Conversation UK Read Article Load More