Alan Rocke

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Alan J. Rocke (born September 20, 1948 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American professor of the history of science at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He retired in 2016.

Rocke graduated from Beloit College with a degree in chemistry in 1969 . He then switched to history of science and did a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1978 he became an assistant professor and in 1993 a full professor at the CWRU.

His main interest lies in the development of European chemistry in the 19th century, among other things he published on Hermann Kolbe and Adolphe Wurtz .

In 2000 he received the Dexter Award .

Works

  • Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century: From Dalton to Cannizzaro, Ohio State University Press 1984
  • The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry, University of California Press, Berkeley 1993
  • Editor with Emil Heuser: Justus von Liebig and Hermann Kolbe in their letters, 1846–1873, Mannheim: Bionomica Verlag 1994
  • Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry, MIT Press 2001
  • Image and Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination, University of Chicago Press 2010
  • From the Molecular World: A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy (translation by Hermann Kopps From the Molecular World from 1882), Springer 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae 2006
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae 2012 ( Memento from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Book Review
personal data
SURNAME Rock out, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rocke, Alan J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH near Chicago , Illinois