Doctoral Dissertation Research in the History and Philosophy of Science

博士生是迈克尔·N·基斯。他的主题是“团体研究的结构和哲学：A·W·霍夫曼在伦敦和柏林的研究计划”。作为一名教师、实验家和科学的组织者，奥古斯特·威廉·冯·霍夫曼(1818-1892)对英国和德国的化学都做出了重要贡献。他改进了贾斯图斯·利比格在吉森开发的实验室研究和教学方法，并在利比希退居农业化学之后很久就思考了他们的认识论假设。霍夫曼于1845年成为英国皇家化学学院的第一位教授，并继续在伦敦从事教学和研究，直到1865年他接受邀请，在柏林大学指导化学项目。他的一些学生和助手成为英国和德国著名的化学家。根据这笔博士论文研究资助拨款，Keas先生旨在分析A.W.霍夫曼实验室研究小组的组成、组织和方法，并解释这些因素如何指导该小组选择和解决研究问题。他的方法结合了社会史和思想史的工具。他希望展示研究小组的组成和组织如何以和谐和冲突的方式与霍夫曼的学术目标和科学前提相互作用，以开展一系列小组研究成果。

The doctoral student is Michael N. Keas. His topic is "The Structure and Philosophy of Group Research: A. W. Hofmann's Research Program in London and Berlin." As a teacher, experimentalist, and organizer of science, August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) made an important contribution to both British and German chemistry. He improved the laboratory research and instructional methods developed by Justus Liebig in Giessen and pondered their epistemological assumptions long after Liebig had retreated to agricultural chemistry. Hofmann became the first professor of the British Royal College of Chemistry in 1845 and continued his teaching and research in London until 1865 when he accepted an invitation to direct the chemistry program at the University of Berlin. A number of his students and assistants became prominent chemists in England and Germany. Under this grant for doctoral dissertation research support, Mr. Keas aims to analyze the composition, organization, and methodology of A. W. Hofmann's laboratory research group and to explain how these factors guided the group's choice and solution of research problems. his approach combines tools of social and intellectual history. He hopes to show how the composition and organization of the research group interacted both in harmonious and in conflicting ways with Hofmann's academic goals and scientific presuppositions to carry out a body of group research achievements.