How can history of science matter to scientists?

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Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-349

  Maienschein, Jane ^a   Laubichler, Manfred ^a   Loettgers, Andrea ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE;

HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE;

EID: 47749106803     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588692     Document Type: Article

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6. For further discussion see Jane Maienschein, "Experimental Biology in Transition: Harrison's Embryology, 1895-1910," Studies in History of Biology, 1983, 6:107-127.
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18. and Laubichler and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Alfred Kühn (.1885-1968) and Developmental Evolution," Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2004, 502:103-110.