No 86

An African History of Knowledge and Science beyond Academic Conventions

• Tilman Musch
• Dida Badi
• Emmanuel Ngue Um
• Yacouba Banhoro
• Sani Ibrahim
• Mahuma Abaliy Sédiké

The elderly man draws a circle in the sand of the Sahara Desert. Inside it he places a dot; beside it he draws a vertical line. These, he explains, are the letters “s” and “n” of the Tifinagh a...

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No 85

Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

• Alfred Freeborn
• Michael Winter
• Pascal Belouin
• Kim Pham
• Elizabeth Hughes
• Hanna Lucia Worliczek
• Steffen Hennicke
• Lara Keuck
• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

As of 2023 there are roughly 4,000 English-language oral history interviews with biomedical scientists, doctors, nurses, patients, and hospital administrators available online. More or less the...

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No 84

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life: A New Approach to the Study of Science and Politics

• Etienne Benson
• Dept. II

Climate change, the pandemic, war, migration, economic insecurity—over the past few years, crises seem to have arisen at an accelerating pace, along with urgent calls for action. In this contex...

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No 83

The Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930

• Benjamin Johnson
• Dept. I

Ammonia synthesis. Central to the mass production of fertilizer and explosives. It has been billed as the most consequential scientific breakthrough of the twentieth century. Historical perspec...

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