Research Professorships

Im Juni 2003 haben wir zwei Research Professorships für unser langfristiges Projekt Jews in German-speaking academia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries einrichten können.

Ulrich Charpa und Ute Deichmann werden eigene Forschung betreiben, sowie Workshops und Konferenzen durchführen und Veröffentlichungen vorbereiten.

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Ulrich Charpa,
PhD, Habilitation, Research Professor at LBI London, is also affiliated with the MA programme Modern European Jewish History, Culture & Thought of the University of Sussex and with the Institute of Philosophy, Ruhr-University, Bochum. He has published nine books and numerous articles in academic journals and collections, mostly on history and philosophy of science as well as of the humanities. He advocates a conception of research progress that - based on epistemological reliabilism - emphasizes the role of expert knowledge and other competencies of the scientists/scholars involved. Apart from the LBI project on Jews in German-speaking Academia, he is currently working on 19th century methodology and on some systematic aspects of the relationship between research work and Jewish religion.

Among his books are:
- Philosophische Wissenschaftshistorie Grundsatzfragen / Verlaufsmodelle, Braunschweig/ Wiesbaden: Vieweg 1995
- Grundprobleme der Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Paderborn/München: UTB 1996.
- Wissen und Handeln - Grundzüge einer Forschungstheorie, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2001.

Recent papers:
- "Emil Du Bois-Reymonds ‚Goethe und kein Ende'. Analyse einer Ablehnung", in: Wissen in Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. L. Danneberg and others, Tuebingen: Niemeyer 2003, pp. 220-239.
- "Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804-1881) - The History of Jewish Interest in Science and the Methodology of Microscopic Botany", in: Aleph - Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, vol. 3, 2003, pp. 213-245.
- "Eruw techumim - Fortschrittshandeln und Grenzziehung. Analogisierungen im Blick auf Talmud und Wissenschaft", in: Horizonte des Horizontbegriffs, ed. R. Elm, forthcoming Sankt Augustin: Academia 2004.
- (with U. Deichmann), "Vertrauensvorschuß und wissenschaftliches Fehlhandeln - Eine reliabilistische Modellierung der Fälle Abderhalden, Goldschmidt, Moewus und Waldschmidt-Leitz", in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 27, 2004, pp.187-204.
- "Judentum und wissenschaftliche Forschung - Einstellungscluster im späten 19. Jahrhundert und ihr Fortwirken", in: Yearbook of the Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 175-198.
- (with Ute Deichmann), Jews in the Sciences - Sciences and the Jews - The 19th and 20th Centuries: Introductory remarks in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 149-159.
- "Matthias Jakob Schleiden", in: Naturphilosophie im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. O. Breidbach and Th. Bach, forthcoming Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 2004.

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Ute Deichmann,
PhD, Habilitation, Research Professor at LBI London, Research Group Leader (History of the Biological and Chemical Sciences) at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, is also affiliated with Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel and with the MA programme Modern European Jewish History, Culture & Thought of the University of Sussex. She has published extensively on the history of biological and chemical sciences in the 20th century, where she has reviewed the history of experiments and theories on the one hand and examined political, social, and personal factors and their impact on the advancement of science on the other. Her areas of research, apart from the LBI-project, include selected topics in the history of 20th biochemistry and molecular biology and the scientific impact on Germany and Israel of the expulsion of Jewish scientists. She was recipient of the Ladislaus Laszt Award of Ben Gurion University of the Negev (1995) and was the 1996-97 Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, Philadelphia and Jerusalem.

Book publications:
- Biologists under Hitler (Cambridge: Harvard UP 1996; German edition 1992, reprinted 1995).
- Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemiker und Biochemiker in der NS-Zeit (Weinheim/New-York: Wiley/VCH 2001).

Co-editored volumes or sections:
(with Ulrich Charpa, co-editors), Schwerpunkt Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Vol. 3, Göttingen 2004: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 149-312.

Recent papers:
- Emigration, Isolation and the Slow Start of Molecular Biology in Post World War II Germany, in: Studies in the History & Philosophy of Biological & Medical Sciences 33, 2002, pp. 433-455.
- Chemists and Biochemists During the National Socialist Era, in: Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed. 41, 2002, pp. 3000-18.
- Erfolg und Fachdisziplin - Juden in Chemie und Biomedizin in Deutschland bis 1933, in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute 3, 2004, 269-292.
- (with Ulrich Charpa) Jews in the Sciences - Sciences and the Jews - The 19th and 20th Centuries: Introductory remarks in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 149-159.
- Proteinforschung an den Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten 1930-1950 im internationalen Vergleich, Preprint of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2004)
- Early responses to Avery's et al.'s 1944 paper on DNA as hereditary material, in: Historical Studies of the Physical and Biological Sciences 34.2, 2004, pp. 207-233.
- (with U. Charpa), Vertrauensvorschuß und wissenschaftliches Fehlhandeln - Eine reliabilistische Modellierung der Fälle Abderhalden, Goldschmidt, Moewus und Waldschmidt-Leitz, in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 27, 2004, pp. 187-204.
- (with A. S. Travis) A German Influence on Science in Mandate Palestine and Israel: Chemistry and Biochemistry, in: Israel Studies 9.2, 2004, pp. 34-70.

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