Filtering for "History-of-Science"

• 2024
• 2024-11-10 The discovery of the rare earth elements How chemists identified the 17 rare earth elements over more than a century and a half, from Gadolin's discovery of yttria in 1794 to the isolation of promethium in 1947. materials-science history-of-science chemistry
• 2024-11-03 The case for history in scientific training Scientific training treats the history of the field as decoration. A working researcher is better off with some of it than without, because the ways good science has been dismissed and bad science accepted repeat, and only the historical record makes the patterns visible. history-of-science