Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

8/1/1994 - 7/31/1997

Funding Totals

$107,000.00 (approved)
$106,947.00 (awarded)


Hermann von Helmholtz and the Cultural Image of Science

FAIN: RH-21168-94

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
David L. Cahan (Project Director: October 1993 to March 1998)

To support the preparation of a biography of the 19th-century German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, who is known for his pioneering work on conservation of energy and sensory physiology and his invention of the ophthalmoscope.