Mäzenatentum, Naturwissenschaft und Politik im Habsburgerreich und in der Ersten Republik Österreich

Wolfgang L. Reiter

doi:10.25365/oezg-2014-25-3-9

Patronage, Science and Politics in Habsburg Empire and in the First Republic of Austria

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Wolfgang L. Reiter Internationales Erwin Schrödinger Institut für mathematische Physik

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https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2014-25-3-9

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Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Universität Wien, Ignaz L. Lieben Award, Baumgartner Foundation, Haitinger Award, Patronage, Chemistry, Physics, Radioactivity Research

Abstract

This paper analyzes the patronage of the sciences by Vienna’s liberal bourgeoisie in the days of the late Habsburg monarchy, a period of public and private advancements in all sciences. It specifically focuses on the establishment of scientifically highly successful prizes and institutions within the Vienna Academy of the Sciences. Regarding the research of radioactivity in particular, patronage by founding a new research institution (Institut für Radiumforschung at the Academy) triggered and incited internationally competitive research. All this came to an end in 1938.

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Reiter, W. L. (2014). Patronage, Science and Politics in Habsburg Empire and in the First Republic of Austria. Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, 25(3), 212–247. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2014-25-3-9

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2014): "Tribes" in Academe

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