'Emergency Associations of German Science' new study on the history of the DFG from 1920 to 1973
E-Mail A recently published study entitled Notgemeinschaften der Wissenschaft ("Emergency Associations of Science") takes a comprehensive and critical look at the history of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), examining science-driven research funding in Germany in the first half of the organisation's 100-year existence. Historian Professor Dr. Patrick Wagner traces the development of the DFG from the founding of its predecessor organisation in 1920, through the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era to its re-establishment after the Second World W...
Source: eurekalert.org