Grants for Collaborative Research: John Tyndall and Nineteenth-Century Science

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这是一个项目，以协调和完成信件和维多利亚时代物理学家约翰廷德尔（1820-1893）的其他学术著作的转录，由约翰廷德尔通信项目发起。廷德尔是十九世纪最有影响力的科学家之一。他成为进化论辩论中的领军人物，为达尔文辩护，反对最严厉的批评者，他发表了许多关于科学和新兴科学家在更广泛文化中的作用的文章和流行书籍。他是一位杰出的实践物理学家，在电磁学、热力学、声音、冰川、全球变暖和自然生成方面发表了重要著作。他也是一个有成就的登山运动员，主要负责登山运动的发展。简而言之，廷德尔站在科学和社会中一些最重要发展的交叉点上，他的信件触及了所有这些发展。他发表的信件将引起人文主义者的兴趣，从历史学家到文学学者，以及科学家，从冰川学家和气候学家到物理学家和生物学家。该项目的主要目标之一是出版一卷廷德尔的通信日历，并发布（预计）他收集的通信，无论是在印刷和最终在一个访问，搜索，在线格式的十卷。另一个主要目标是激励一个处于职业生涯不同阶段的学者社区，从研究生和博士后研究人员到初级和高级学者，围绕通过对约翰廷德尔的深入研究提出的主题。该项目将研究生放在项目的中心，从而构建了一种新的研究生培养和研究的合作模式，可用于其他函授项目或类似的大规模努力。这是一种创新的研究生教育和培训模式，将促进研究生在几个顶级科学和技术计划的历史中培养的合作研究项目中开发新的研究问题。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This is a project to coordinate and complete the transcription of letters and other scholarly works of the Victorian physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893) as intiated by the John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Tyndall was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. He became a leading figure in the debates over evolution, defending Darwin against his harshest critics, and he published numerous essays and popular books on the role of science and the burgeoning scientist in broader culture. He was an eminent practicing physicist, publishing significant works in electro-magnetism, thermodynamics, sound, glaciers, global warming, and spontaneous generation. He was also an accomplished alpinist, largely responsible for the growth of mountaineering as a sport. In short, Tyndall stood at the intersection of some of the most important developments in science and society, and his correspondence touches on all of them. His published correspondence will interest humanists ranging from historians to literary scholars, as well as scientists, from glaciologists and climatologists to physicists and biologists. One of the primary goals of the project is to publish a one-volume calendar of Tyndall's correspondence and to issue (a projected) ten volumes of his collected correspondence, both in print and eventually in an accessible, searchable, on-line format. The other primary goal is to galvanize a community of scholars at varied stages in their careers, from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to junior and senior scholars, around themes raised through an intense study of John Tyndall. The project puts graduate students at the center of the project, thereby constructing a new cooperative model of graduate student training and research that can be used for other correspondence projects or similar large-scale endeavors. This is an innovative model of graduate education and training that will promote the development by graduate students of new research questions within a collaborative research project fostered at several of the top history of science and technology programs.