Berkeley Colloquia in History of Science and Technology - Spring 2009
Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
Bruno Strasser
Yale University
Put a Tiger in Your Test Tube: Naturalists, Experimentalists, and the Comparative Perspective 1900-1965
In this presentation, Bruno J. Strasser will look at the intersection between laboratory science and field natural history in the first half of the 20th century. While these two traditions have been described as growing largely separate and independent, an exploration of their enduring connections explains how the values and practices of natural history transformed the experimental enterprise. The present proliferation of large scale biological collections, such as genomics databases, encompassing more species than any natural history museum, represents the most recent outcome of this transformation.
4:00PM
Monday, April 27, 2009
279 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: ohst@berkeley.edu
