Biography of Johannes Wislicenus (1835-1902)

这笔赠款将支持档案和图书馆的研究，预计传记约翰内斯Wislicenus（1835年至1902年），一个主要的化学家的十九世纪的职业生涯还没有得到广泛的研究，由历史学家。一个副产物的PI最近完成的书立体化学的早期历史，这个项目的目标是收集更多的档案和出版材料的Wislicenus的青年作为儿子的激进自由思想的神学家，古斯塔夫Wislicenus（1803-1877），关于他作为一个失败的美国移民的经历，关于他在哈雷大学与威廉·海因茨的专业发展，以及他作为苏黎世、维尔茨堡和莱比锡三个主要研究小组主任的角色。拟议的传记将讨论科学人格的形成，宗教和科学，19世纪化学中的原子理论，以及科学研究小组的结构和目的。完成的传记还将Wislicenus作为19世纪30年代出生的特定一代化学家的成员，并将Wislicenus的个人风格与他那一代的其他化学家进行比较。因此，最后的传记将对科学史学家，德国历史学家和实践化学家感兴趣。

This grant will support archival and library research on a projected biography ofJohannes Wislicenus (1835-1902), a major chemist of the nineteenth century whose career has yet to receive extensive study by historians. An outgrowth of the PIs recently completed book on the early history of stereochemistry, the goal of this project is to gather additional archival and published material on Wislicenus's youth as the son of the radical free-thinking theologian, Gustav Wislicenus (1803-1877), on his experiences as a failed immigrant to America, on his professional development with Wilhelm Heintz at the University of Halle, and on his role as director of three major research groups inZurich, Wurzburg, and Leipzig. The proposed biography will discuss the formation of a scientific personality, religion and science, the atomic theory in nineteenth-century chemistry, and the structure and purpose of research groups in science. The completed biography will also frame Wislicenus as a member of a particular generation of chemists born during the 1830s, and make comparisons of Wislicenus's personal style of doing and teaching science with other chemists of his generation. The final biography will therefore be of interest to historians of science, German historians, and practicing chemists.