Osiris, Volume 14

CHARLES S. MAIER: Preface
PNINA ABIR-AM: Introduction

PART I: COMMEMORATING GREAT MINDS: SCIENTISTS AS CULTURAL HEROES

OWEN GINGERICH: The Copernican Quinquecentennial and its Predecessors:
Historical Insights and National Agendas


CHRISTIANE SINDING: Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur:
Contrasting Images through Public Commemorations


JOY HARVEY: A Focal Point for Feminism, Politics, and Science in France:
The Clémence Royer Centennial Celebration of 1930

DANIELA S. BARBERIS: Changing Practices of Commemoration in Neurology:
Comparing Charcot's 1925 and 1993 Centennials

GEORGE E. HADDAD: Medicine and the Culture of Commemoration: Representing Robert Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus


DIETER HOFFMANN: The Divided Centennial: The 1958 Max Planck Celebration(s) in Berlin


PART II: COMMEMORATING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS: THE RE/PRODUCTION SITES OF
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

CLARK A. ELLIOTT: The Tercentenary of Harvard University in 1936: The Scientific Dimension

STANLEY GOLDBERG: The Enola Gay Affair: What Evidence Counts When We Commemorate Historical Events?

ROBERT W. SEIDEL: The Golden Jubilees of Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories

DOMINIQUE PESTRE: Commemorative Practices at CERN: Between Physicists' Memories and Historians' Narratives


PART III: COMMEMORATING SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES: MEMORIALIZING OBJECTIVITY

LILIANE BEAULIEU: Bourbaki's Art of Memory

MARA BELLER: Jocular Commemorations: The Copenhagen Spirit

VASSILIKI BETTY SMOCOVITIS: The 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration in America


PNINA G. ABIR AM: The First American and French Commemorations in Molecular Biology: From Collective Memory to Comparative History