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  Boris Hessen Information
Boris Hessen was born to a Jewish family in Elisavetgrad, Russia (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine).
From 1934 to 1936 Hessen was a deputy director of the Physics Institute in Moscow headed by S.I. Vavilov.
On August 22, 1936 Hessen was arrested by the NKVD.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Boris_Hessen   (359 words)

  
  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Historiography of science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Hessen thesis and the birth of externalism
Boris Hessen in particular delivered a paper entitled "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia," in which he asserted that Isaac Newton's most famous work was created to cater to the goals and desires of 17th century industry and economy.
Hessen asserted that Newton's work was inspired by his economic status and context, that the Principia was little more than the solution of technical problems of the bourgeoisie.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Historiography_of_science   (1784 words)

  
 Booknoise.net | A Peoples History of Science Reviews
Boris Hessen emphasized the importance of the socio/political conditions that formed the base on which scientific progress was made.
Hessen’s thesis was roundly rejected by western scientists when it was introduced at the second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, in 1931.
One of the most remarkable of these figures was a Soviet physicist named Boris Hessen, who was responsible for challenging the "Great Men of Science" approach in the same manner that Marxist historians of his time would highlight the efforts of working people and peasants in changing society throughout history.
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 CASE People - Christopher Chilvers
Chris is a member of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) and organizes the COLLEGEVISIBLE email discussion list on political engagement of scientists in the period from 1930 to the 1950s.
Boris Hessen Revisited (working title), edited by W. Schafer, P. Josephson, C. Chilvers (MIT Press, 2006?).
Series of 200 word introductions to Hessen’s papers, limited translation from Russian and editorial duties associated with Boris Hessen Revisited (MIT Press, 2006).
case.glam.ac.uk /CASE/StaffPages/ChrisChilvers/CC.html   (529 words)

  
 The Socio-political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History of Science -- Graham 15 (4): 705 -- Social ...
The Socio-political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History of Science -- Graham 15 (4): 705 -- Social Studies of Science
The Socio-political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History of Science
Principia', given by the Soviet physicist Boris Hessen at the
sss.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/15/4/705   (261 words)

  
 CV for Christopher A. J. Chilvers
Delegate to student led Philosophy Conference at University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic in April 1997.
‘The tragedy of Comrade Hessen: biography as historical discourse’, The Poetics of Biography in Science, Technology and Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark, 22nd –25th May 2002.
Special Commendation awarded by British Society for the History of Science Singer Prize Judges 2002 for essay ‘The Dilemmas of Seditious Men: the Crowther- Hessen correspondence in the 1930s’.
www.dtv.dk /tekhist/person/chris.aspx   (1241 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Boris Hessen": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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The Hessen thesis will be discussed below in the context of the career of Isaac Newton.
A very basic form of this kind of work may be read, for example, in the Soviet historian Boris Hessen's account of Newton's Principia, which system- atically relates the scientific content of Newton's work to specifically economic aspects of the...
amazon.com /phrase/Boris-Hessen   (276 words)

  
 Kommunaler Arbeitgeberverband Hessen
KAV Hessen e.V. Herzlich Willkommen auf der Internetseite des kommunalen Arbeitgeberverbandes Hessen (KAV Hessen).
Der KAV Hessen ist die Vertretung der kommunalen Verwaltungen, der Betriebe, Unternehmen sowie der sozialen und kulturellen Einrichtungen in kommunaler Trägerschaft.
Der Verband ist Tarifpartei und nimmt die Interessen seiner Mitglieder in allen Angelegenheiten des Tarif-, Sozial- und Arbeitsrechts wahr.
www.kav-hessen.de /site/1598219140423113/startseite/gremien   (80 words)

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