Making Nature The History of a Scientific Journal 1st Edition by Melinda Baldwin ISBN 022626145X 9780226261454

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ISBN 10: 022626145X

ISBN 13: 9780226261454 

Author: Melinda Baldwin 

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.

Table of contents:

Citations and Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
Introduction: Who Is a “Scientist”?
Chapter One: Nature’s Shifting Audience: 1869–1875
Chapter Two: Nature’s Contributors and the Changing of Britain’s Scientific Guard: 1872–1895
Chapter Three: Defining the “Man of Science” in Nature
Chapter Four: Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Nationalism
Chapter Five: Nature, Interwar Politics, and Intellectual Freedom
Chapter Six: “It Almost Came Out on Its Own”: Nature under L. J. F. Brimble and A. J. V. Gale
Chapter Seven: Nature, the Cold War, and the Rise of the United States
Chapter Eight: “Disorderly Publication”: Nature and Scientific Self-Policing in the 1980s
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

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