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Making Nature : the history of a scientific journal / Melinda Baldwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 022626145X (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226261454 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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Contents:
Introduction: Who is a "scientist"? -- Nature's shifting audience, 1869-1875 -- Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard, 1872-1895 -- Defining the "man of science" in Nature -- Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism -- Nature, interwar politics, and intellectual freedom -- "It almost came out on its own" : Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale -- Nature, the Cold War, and the rise of the United States -- "Disorderly publication" : Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s.
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Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature , one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and Stephen Hawking, and it has published many of the most important discoveries in the history of science, including articles on the structure of DNA, the discovery of the neutron, the first cloning of a mammal, and the human genome.

But how did Nature become such an essential institution? In Making "Nature," Melinda Baldwin charts the rich history of this extraordinary publication from its foundation in 1869 to current debates about online publishing and open access. This pioneering study not only tells Nature 's story but also sheds light on much larger questions about the history of science publishing, changes in scientific communication, and shifting notions of "scientific community." Nature , as Baldwin demonstrates, helped define what science is and what it means to be a scientist.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index.

Introduction: Who is a "scientist"? -- Nature's shifting audience, 1869-1875 -- Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard, 1872-1895 -- Defining the "man of science" in Nature -- Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism -- Nature, interwar politics, and intellectual freedom -- "It almost came out on its own" : Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale -- Nature, the Cold War, and the rise of the United States -- "Disorderly publication" : Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s.

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