2008
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0032
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Visible work: the role of students in the creation of Liebig's Giessen research school

Abstract: Historians have generally confined Liebig's students and assistants to a peripheral role in the development of his Giessen laboratory. This paper argues that these young chemists were essential to Liebig's early success, fulfilling his need for experimental work and producing the apparently independent publications which established the credibility of his new method of organic analysis. Liebig's students and assistants embodied a particular solution to the provision of technician labour and they show us that t… Show more

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“…19 th century capitalism centred around the values and the persona of the bourgeois, and it was not uncommon for Victorian personalities to promote their commercial and legal interests by cashing in on the Romantic idea of the author-genius (RICHARDSON & THOMAS, 2012). Justus von Liebig had carefully cultivated his image not only as the best-known organic chemist of his time but also as a businessman, inventor, populariser of science and public personality involved in questionable sponsorships, well-publicised legal disputes over patents and other minor scandals (BLONDEL, 2007;BROCK,1997;FINLAY, 1992;JACKSON, 2008); in the late 19 th century, not only Liebig's Extract of Meat but also Justus von Liebig were (literally) household names, linked in such a way that each one served to increase the popularity and prestige of the other long after von Liebig's death in 1873.…”
Section: Presentationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…19 th century capitalism centred around the values and the persona of the bourgeois, and it was not uncommon for Victorian personalities to promote their commercial and legal interests by cashing in on the Romantic idea of the author-genius (RICHARDSON & THOMAS, 2012). Justus von Liebig had carefully cultivated his image not only as the best-known organic chemist of his time but also as a businessman, inventor, populariser of science and public personality involved in questionable sponsorships, well-publicised legal disputes over patents and other minor scandals (BLONDEL, 2007;BROCK,1997;FINLAY, 1992;JACKSON, 2008); in the late 19 th century, not only Liebig's Extract of Meat but also Justus von Liebig were (literally) household names, linked in such a way that each one served to increase the popularity and prestige of the other long after von Liebig's death in 1873.…”
Section: Presentationmentioning
confidence: 99%