Nationalism and the Process of Reception and Appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech Lands

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nationalism and the Process of Reception and Appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech Lands
Original language description
Early Responses to the Periodic System is the first collective monograph on the reception, response, and appropriation of the periodic system of elements which was conceived by the Russian chemist D.I. Mendeleev in 1869. It also is the first major comparative analysis of the diffusion of Mendeleev's discovery in different nation-states in Europe and in Japan in the period 1870-1920. The chapter of S. Štrbáňová is focused on the dissemination of the knowledge about the periodic system in the Czech Landsand Europe and the decisive role of the Czech chemist Bohuslav Brauner, close friend and collaborator of Mendeleev, in this process. It also describes how Brauner enriched and further developed the general knowledge about a number of elements (especiallythe rare earths) and their placement in the Periodic Table. As Brauner?s effort to support a Slavic scientist was also motivated by nationalistic grounds, the chapter can be considered a case study documenting the role of politics in app
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Project
<a href="/en/project/IAAX00630801" target="_blank" >IAAX00630801: Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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