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Stansky (1996), among other studies.
See Crawford (1984), 116–120, for politicking between the chemistry and physics committees over awarding the prize to cosmical physicist Svante Arrhenius (chemistry, 1903). The trajectory of Emil Bose over the first decade of the twentieth century is also illustrative. A doctoral student of Walther Nernst’s at Göttingen, he took the venia legendi with physicist Oskar Emil Meyer at Breslau, and returned to Göttingen as Nernst’s assistant before in 1904 becoming assistant to theoretical physicist Woldemar Voigt and directing the biweekly journal, Physikalische Zeitschrift. In 1906 he went to Danzig as professor of physical chemistry, and in 1909 he assumed direction of the physics institute in La Plata, Argentina. Nernst himself saw physical chemistry as ranging from mathematical physics to chemical kinetics (Pyenson 1985, 153–159).
For one recent study of an intellectual couple from this time see Pyenson (2007), here p. xxx.
Pyenson (2005), 261–335, here pp. 7–8 of the unblemished reprint, Three Graces (Lafayette: Editions Giselle Calypso, 2005), available in the Harvard College Library.
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Pyenson, L., Johnston, S.F., Martínez, A.A. et al. Revisiting the history of relativity. Metascience 20, 53–73 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9466-4
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