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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Lab

verfasst von : Alan L. Mackay

Erschienen in: Culture of Chemistry

Verlag: Springer US

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“The lab” is the frame for one’s working life. Joseph Needham extrapolated from laborare est orare to laboratorium est oratorium. The lab is where one puts questions to nature in dialogue with one’s colleagues and struggles with the physical and administrative machinery.1

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Fußnoten
1
The best recent account of the working life in science is by Steven Rose, The Making of Memory: Bantam Press: London, 1993.
 
2
Collaboration with Blackett’s group on rock magnetism continued while Blackett was at Imperial College.
 
3
Edward Thompson who died in 1993, had been leader of the British group who worked on the Youth Railway in Bosnia, and he was the first to start “the new left,” with his journal The New Reasoner. Yugoslavia has had a significant influence on British politics, and the present events are particularly tragic for this “new left.”
 
4
1953 was a tense year. The Russians exploded a hydrogen bomb; the Rosenbergs were executed; and the Korean War was fought to an armistice.
 
5
A reviewer of Watson’s book asked, “I wonder what else happened that week?”
 
6
In the Guardian, February 14, 1994, David Marquand wrote, confirming this impression: “[The Labour party] had captured the public imagination and seized the initiative well before the campaign had begun. It had done these things because the Wilsonian story of a marriage between socialism and science seemed both convincing and inspiring. Since then the mainstream left has had no project.”
 
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Zurück zum Zitat Bernal, J.D. The Origin of Life; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967. Bernal, J.D. The Origin of Life; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967.
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Zurück zum Zitat Bernal, J.D. The Freedom of Necessity; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1949. Bernal, J.D. The Freedom of Necessity; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1949.
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Metadaten
Titel
The Lab
verfasst von
Alan L. Mackay
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7565-2_29