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FA-55650-11	Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers	Michael D. Gordin	Scientific Babel: Communication and Identity in Western Chemistry since the Fall of Latin	6/1/2011 - 5/31/2012	$50,400.00	Michael	D.	Gordin				Princeton University	Princeton	NJ	08540-5228	USA	2010	History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine	Fellowships for University Teachers	Research Programs	50400	0	50400	0	This project explores the transitions between "scientific languages"--the languages in which science is actually conducted--from the breakdown of Latin as an international mode of communication in the seventeenth century to the end of the Cold War and the rise of English as essentially the sole language of the natural sciences. Emphasizing chemistry, it examines in detail the cases of Russian, Esperanto/Ido, and German.