Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS PAOLO AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO studied chemistry at the University of Turin. After working in the polyamide and polyacrylonitrile fibres industry, he taught, as a professore incaricato, from 1964 to 1968 in the University of Cagliari, at the Faculty of Applied Sciences hydrology and chemical industries for agriculture, and from 1969 at the Faculty of Engineering, as professore associato, high polymers chemistry, fuels and lubricants. Today he teaches organic chemistry. He has published on the recycling of industrial wastes and by-products, and on the development of chemistry and chemical technology in Sardinia, from the eighteenth century, and on pharmacy, also in Sardinia, from the sixteenth century. Address: Universita degli studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di ingegneria chimica e materiali, Piazza d'Armi, 1-09123 Cagliari, Italy. ARNE ANDERSEN is Privatdozent at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He took his doctorate in social history and the history of labour movement. Subsequent ly he turned to environmental history. For over ten years he has been working in this field, and is a pioneer of this new historical sub-discipline in Germany. Currently he is studying the change from industrial to consumer society and its eco logical consequences. Address: ZwickauerstraBe 33, D-28215 Bremen, Germany. STUART BENNETT trained as a mechanical engineer and is now a Reader in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield where he has taught since 1968. During 1988-89 he held a senior postdoctoral research fellowship at the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC where he worked on the history of process control. He has published a two volume history of control engineering (covering the periods 1800-1930 and 1930-1995), and several papers on the history of industrial measuring instruments. His current interests relate to the impact of instruments (measuring, recording and controlling) on the organizational and operational structures of the process industries. His non-historical research is on the socio technical modelling of manufacturing processes. Address: Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, P.O. Box 600, Mappin Street, Sheffield SI 4DU, Great Britain. ANNE-CLAIRE DERE is a doctor in pharmacy, and has completed a thesis on the history of chemistry. Her interests include the history of organic chemistry, biology and pharmacy, and especially the biographies of scientists. Her publications have been concerned first with the history of her own region (Bretagne) and with the role of scientists in industrial development. She has recently contributed two articles to the biographical dictionary of the teachers of the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts 321 322 Notes on contributors et Metiers. As associate member of the Francois Viete Research Centre of the University of Nantes she is working on a biography of Jacques-Louis Thenard (in collaboration with Gerard Emptoz). Address: 11, place du Pilory, 44000 Nantes, France. JAMES DONNELLY studied chemistry at University College, London. He was awarded a PhD at the University of Leeds with a thesis on the historical relationship between education and the chemical industry. He taught chemistry for some years in schools, and is now Senior Lecturer in Chemical Education in the Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on the history of industrial chemists and chemical engineers. He also works in the field of science education and is editor of the journal Studies in Science Education. His main historical interest at present is the history of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, jointly with Professor Colin DivalI. Address: Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education, School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, Great Britain. GERARD EMPTOZ was appointed professor of the history of technology in 1993 at the University of Nantes, where he is presently Directeur-adjoint of the Centre Francois-Viete d'histoire des sciences et des techniques. He holds a doctorate in chemistry, which he taught at the Institut universitaire de technologie in Orsay. After studying the history of technical innovations in energy production - at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris - he became professor of the history of technology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in 1989 and chercheur associe in the Centre de recherches historiques of the EHESS. He is also adviser for science museums at the French ministry for higher education and research. His publications have been concerned with organic and analytical chemistry, the history of mechanical energy and fuels, innovation processes and studies of patents in these fields, the history of science-technology relationships in chemistry, and the history of scientific educational institutions. He is currently working on the Nantes region and on innovation processes in industrial chemistry during French industrialization. Address: Universite de Nantes, Faculte des Sciences et des Techniques, Centre d'histoire des sciences et des techniques, 2, Rue de la Houssiniere, 44072 Nantes-Cedex, France. ERNST HOMBURG studied chemistry in Amsterdam. He taught pharmacy and society at the University of Groningen, and from 1979 to 1993 worked at Nijrnegen University, first as research fellow in a project on the history of the synthetic dye industry, and later as assistant professor in chemistry and society. He obtained a doctorate in history with a thesis on the polytechnic schools and the rise of the chemical profession in Germany, 1790-1850. He now teaches history of science and technology at the University of Maastricht. From 1989 to 1995 he was coeditor of a six volume History of Technology in the Netherlands. 1800-1890 (in Dutch), and author of chapters on the chemical and gas industries. He is currently writing a Notes on contributors 323 history of the Dutch chemical industry between 1890 and 1990, and i&. president of the Dutch Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (GeWiNa). Address: Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Facu1teit Cu1tuurwetenschappen, Universiteit Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands. ANDERS LUNDGREN has a PhD from the Department of History of Ideas and Science, Uppsala University, where he now is Senior Lecturer. His main. interest is the history of chemistry and he has published on eighteenth century chemistry, especially on the chemical revolution, and on the relation between mining and chemistry. He is also interested in the chemistry of later periods and has published on the development of biochemistry as an independent discipline in Sweden and on the development of Swedish pharmaceuticals (Everyday science. A history of Xylocaine, 1995, in Swedish). He is currently working on the relation between science and technology with special reference to the chemical industry. Address: Uppsala Universitet, Institutionen fOr ide- och lardomshistoria, Slottet, Ingang AO, S-75237 Uppsala, Sweden. ROMAN MIERZECKI took his doctorate in physics at Warsaw University after studying chemistry at the Technical University in LOdz. He lectured on physical chemistry and history of chemistry at Warsaw University, and was professor at that university from 1984 to 1992, when he retired. His research work concerned molecular spectroscopy, intermolecular interactions and the history of chemistry. He is member of the Committee of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and President of the Section of History of Chemistry of the Polish Chemical Society. His publications include The Historical Development of Chemical Concepts (English edition, Kluwer, 1991), and he was editor of Research Schools of Polish Chemists (in Polish, 1994). Address: ul. J. Bytnara 23 m. 19, PL-02645 Warszawa, Poland. PETER REED is Head of the Development Office for National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM) - a group of seven museums and art galleries in and around Liverpool. He has previously taught chemistry for eight years from 1967, before moving to the Education Department at Liverpool Museum. There he was later appointed Assistant Director (Museum Services). Following the reorganisation of local government in 1986 and the formation of NMGM he was appointed Head of Education and Public Programmes. His research has been mainly concerned with the history of chemistry and chemical industry in the nineteenth century, more recently focusing on pollution and on natural and synthetic dyes. Address: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, P.O. Box 33, 127 Dale Street, Liverpool L69 3LA, Great Britain. CARSTEN REINHARDT studied history and technology at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Berlin. Following a fellowship at the Edelstein Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Jerusalem 324 Notes on contributors he held a research position at the Forschungsschwerpunkt Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie in Berlin. He took his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on the history of research in the German chemical industry, 1860-1914. His interests include the history of chemistry and technology in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is currently working on a business history of a German cement enterprise. Address: ZietenstraBe 21, D-I0783 Berlin, Germany. HARM G. SCHROTER studied in Hamburg and

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