Designing (for) a new scientific discipline: The location and architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in early twentieth-century Vienna
Rentetzi M (2005)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2005
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Book Volume: 38
Pages Range: 275-306
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087405006989
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This essay explores how Viennese physicists who specialized in radioactivity research embodied visions of their new discipline in material terms, through the architectural design and the urban location of their institute. These visions concerned not only the experimental culture of radioactivity, or the interdisciplinarity of the field, but also the gendered experiences of those working in the institute's laboratories, many of who were women. In designing the Institute for Radium Research at the end of the 1910s - the first such specialized institute in Europe - physicists and architects were also designing the new discipline in a strong sense. In the architectural form of the building one can trace the aesthetics of the new discipline, the scientific exchanges of its personnel and the image of a newly formed community in which women were more than welcomed. © British Society for the Histroy of Science.
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APA:
Rentetzi, M. (2005). Designing (for) a new scientific discipline: The location and architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in early twentieth-century Vienna. British Journal For the History of Science, 38(3), 275-306. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087405006989
MLA:
Rentetzi, Maria. "Designing (for) a new scientific discipline: The location and architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in early twentieth-century Vienna." British Journal For the History of Science 38.3 (2005): 275-306.
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