The Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science

Publications

Publications by members of the Centre

Articles

 

Edited Volumes since 2008

Edited Books

Articles

  • A.S. Travis, Heiko Stoff. Paperback edition 2022.​ "Discovering Chemical Carcinogens: The Case of Aromatic Amines,” in Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel, eds, Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, (New York: Berghahn), 137-178.
  • A.S. Travis. 2022. "Luigi Casale’s Enterprise: Pioneer of Global Catalytic High-Pressure Industrial Chemistry," in Pierdomenico Biasi, ed., Catalysis Today, Vol. 387: 4-8.
  • A.S. Travis​. 2022.​“History of Chemical Industry versus Corporate History: Technologies and Products” Carmen Giunta and Jeffrey Seeman, eds., Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Vol. 47, no. 1: 50-61.
  • K.H.R Rouwenhorst,  A.S.​ Travis,L. Lefferts. 2022. 1921–2021: A Century of Renewable Ammonia Synthesis, Sustainable Chemistry, 2022, 3, 149–171. 
  • A.S. Travis​. 2021. “Trade and Industry: New Demands, New Processes and the Emergence of Science-based Chemical Industry,” in Peter Ramberg, ed., A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, 167-190.
  • A.S. Travis and J. T. Morris​. 2021. “Trade and Industry: The Growth, Diversification, and Dissolution of a Global Industry,” in Peter J. T. Morris, ed., A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century, 149-172.
  • ​A.S. Travis. 2021. First Steps: Synthetic Ammonia in the United StatesSubstantia, Vol. 5, no.1: 55-77.
  • A.S. Travis​. 2021. A Life of Its Own: How Luigi Casale’s Enterprise Launched and Still Nurtures the Global Nitrogen IndustryNewsletter, Historical Group, Royal Society of Chemistry, 44-50.​
  • A.S. Travis​. 2021. For the Scientific Record: Chemistry, Photography, and Raphael Meldola, Newsletter, Historical Group, Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • A.S. Travis​. 2020. "High Pressure Apparatus” in Joseph D. Martin and Cyrus C. M. Moody, eds, Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Material Research, 287-296.
  • A.S. Travis​, S. P. Foster and S. Seeger. 2020. “Saccharin beyond Serendipity: A German-American Wechselspiel of Invention and Industry” in Shaul Katzir, Sagi Schaefer and Galili Shahar, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, Vol. 48, 83-121.​
  • S. Travis. 2019.Chemical modeling: From Paul Ehrlich's dyes to beta blockers: A brief history​.Journal of Computational Biology 26.7: 726-734.
  • S. Travis, B. Friedrich, M. Popplow. 2019. Berlin, Jerusalem, and Karlsruhe: Mark Fritz Haber's 150th birthday.Bunsen Magazin, 21:47-50.
  • S. Travis, B. Friedrich. 2019. The life and work of Fritz Haber revisited on the 150th anniversary of his birth, in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Karlsruhe.RSC Historical Group Newsletter, 76: 56-59.
  • A.S. Travis. 2017. Essay review of Paul David Blanc, Fake Silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon. New Haven 2016, Yale University Press. In Royal Society of Chemistry, Historical Group Newsletter and Summary of Papers 72.
  • S. Travis and H. Stoff. 2019. Benzidine, Butter Yellow: The Cases of Aromatic Amines and Azo Dyes in the Twentieth Century, Toxic Chemicals, E Homburg and E Vaupel (eds), Berghahn.
  • S. Travis. 2016. The First Decade at the NIMR [National Institute for Medical Research], Mill Hill: The Instruments that Revolutionized Analytical Chemistry, in Overy C, Tansey E M. (eds),Technology, Techniques, and Technicians at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) c.1960–c.2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 59. London: Queen Mary University of London.
  • S. Travis. 2015.Nitrogen, Novel High Pressure Chemistry, and the German War Effort, Wheeler Award Lecture 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Occasional Paper.
  • S. Travis. 2012 Raphael Meldola, His Blues and His Times. Biotechnic and Histochemistry 87(4): 288-294.
  • S. Travis. 2010. Raphael Meldola and the Neo-Darwinians.Journal for General Philosophy of Science41: 89-118.
  • S. Travis. 2009. Raphael Meldola: Natural Selection, the Essex Field Club, and a magnificent area for experimental natural history, Essex Naturalist(new series) 26: 13-38.
  • S. Travis. 2009. A Woman in Biochemistry and Toxicology: The Polish-British Refugee Regina Schoental.Bulletin for the History of Chemistry34: 92-104.
  • S. Travis. (2008). What a Wonderful Empire is the Organic Chemistry. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry33: 1-11.
  • S. Travis. 2008. Models for Biological Research: The Theory and Practice of Paul Ehrlich. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences30(1): 79-98.
  • S. Travis. 2007. Anilines: Historical Background, chapter 1 in Z. Rappoport, ed., The Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Anilines. Chichester: Wiley, 1-73.
  • S. Travis. 2007. Manufacture and Uses of the Anilines: A Vast Array of Processes and Products, chapter 13 in Z. Rappoport, ed., The Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Anilines. Chichester: Wiley, 715-782.
  • S. Travis. 2007. Toxicological and Environmental Aspects of Anilines, chapter 15 in Z. Rappoport, ed., The Chemistry of Functional Groups: The Chemistry of Anilines. Chichester: Wile, 835-870.
  • S. Travis. 2007. Mauve and Its Anniversaries. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry32: 35-44.
  • S. Travis. 2007. Unintended Technology Transfer: Reppe Chemistry in the United States. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry32: 27-34.
  • S. Travis. 2007. German-Jewish Chemists and Raphael Meldola: The 1906 Jubilee Celebration for the Discovery of the First Aniline Dye. In Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann, eds, Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 51-75.

 

Books

 

Edited Volumes

  • A. Passariello. Acidi Nucleici, si, ma quali? Jean Brachet e la spiegazione del differenziamento cellular. In B. Fantini, M. Capocasa, eds, Edizioni ETS, Milano. In press.
  • A. Passariello. 2019. Review of G. B. Müller (ed), Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt. The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, The MIT

Book

  • A. Barell. (2014). King-Engineer: David Ben-Gurion, Science and Nation Building. Ben-Gurion Research Institute Press.

Chapters in Collective Volumes

  • A. Barell. 2017. Nationalizing utopia: Theological vision and the salvation plan, in D. Ohana, Nationalizing Judaism: Zionism as a Theological Ideology, London: Lexington. 13-35.
  • A. Barell. Forthcoming. Knowledge Ecologies and Academia in Israel. The Public Role of Academia. Tel Aviv University Press.

Articles

  • A. Barell and U. Deichmann. 2016. Internationality as moral challenge and practical success: The origin and early development of the Israeli-German Collaboration in the Sciences. Yearbook of the Simon-Dubnow-Institute 15, 341-369.
  • A. Barell. Research Note: A response to Adi Sapir's Protecting the Purity of Pure Research: Organizational Boundary-Work at an Institute of Basic Research. Minerva 55.1, submitted.
  • A. Barell and D. Ohana. (2014). ‘The Million Plan’: Zionism, Political Theology and Scientific Utopianism, Politics, Religion & Ideology, published online 6 February.
  • A. Barell. (2014). The Failure to Formulate a National Science Policy: Israel’s Scientific Council 1948-1959 , Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture 33(1): 85-107.
  • A. Barell. (2014). ‘The Miracle Maker‘: Science Corps and the Origins of the Israeli Military Research, Review of: Uriel Bachrach, By the Power of Knowledge: The Scientific Corps of the IDF (1948-1952), Cathdra 151: 179-183.
  • A. Barell. (2012). Zionist Epistemology: David Ben-Gurion’s Politics of Numbers. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 22:91-121.
  • A. Barell. (2012). Leviathan and the Academy: Was there an Attempt to Nationalize the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Early Years of the State of Israel? Democratic Culture in Israel and in the world, 13: 7-79. [Hebrew version appeared 2011 in Democratic Culture 13: 7-59].
  • C. Timmermann and Z. Robaey. (forthcoming). Agrobiodiversity, the Common Heritage Principle and Market Incentives [German].
  • C. Timmermann and G. Felix. (2015). Agroecology as a Vehicle for Contributive Justice, Agriculture and Human Values Published online 10 January 2015.
  • C. Timmermann. (2014). Pesticides and the Patent Bargain, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, published online10 August, pp. 1-19.
  • C. Timmermann. (2013). Pesticides and the Patent Bargain, Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, Hongladarom, Duangmal, Ingkaninun, Phanchinda, and Promngram (eds.), Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, pp. 139-146.
  • C. Timmermann and G. Felix. (2013). Agroecology Beyond Food, Farming Matters 12: 30-31. (Also translated into Chinese).
  • I. Belfer. (2014). Information-Laden science, a Hacking-Type Revolution, Proceedings of the International Conference on Philosophy of Information (ICPI 2013), Xian Jiaotong University International Center for Philosophy of Information (XJTU-ICPI), pp. 136-179.
  • I. Belfer. (2014). Informing Physics: Jacob Bekenstein and the Informational Turn in Theoretical Physics, Physics in Perspective 16(1): 69-97.
  • I. Belfer. (2014). A Bit of a Revolution – a Hacking Type Information Revolution in Science and Society, submitted to Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences.
  • R. Armon. (2010). Beyond Darwinism’s Eclipse: Functional Evolution, Biochemical Recapitulation and Spencerian Emergence in the 1920s and 1930s. Journal of the General Philosophy of Science, 41: 173-194.