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By Nikolai Krementsov

What's foreign technological know-how and the way does it functionality? This e-book solutions those questions via an in depth examine of overseas congresses on genetics held from 1899 to 1939. It offers a portrait of foreign technology as a made from non-stop interactions that concerned scientists and their consumers inside particular political, ideological, and disciplinary contexts. Drawing on numerous archival assets - starting from Stalin's own papers to the documents of the Gestapo and from the correspondence between scientists in several international locations to the mins of the Soviet government's top-secret conferences - it depicts the operations of overseas technology at a time of significant political tensions.
Krementsov breaks with the view of technology as both inherently nationwide or quintessentially overseas, interpreting in its place the intersection among nationwide and overseas agendas in scientists' actions. targeting the dramatic background of the 7th foreign genetics congress, he investigates contradictions inherent to scientists' twin loyalties to their nation and their technological know-how. via research of negotiations between 3 teams of actors concerned with the association of the congress, Krementsov examines the function of ideologies, patronage, and private networks within the operations of foreign technology.

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64 Sent through a Narkomzdrav representative in the United States, the letter informed Davenport of the creation of both the department of eugenics at the Institute of Experimental Biology and the Russian Eugenics Society. Kol’tsov noted that he would like to attend the international eugenics congress, but it seemed impossible at the moment. He also lamented the “intellectual famine” Russian scientists had been and were still experiencing, and asked Davenport for his assistance in getting recent genetic and eugenic literature.

98 Noting that the Berlin congress had already started and its Soviet members had already left Russia, he asked for a decision immediately. 99 But despite all the efforts of both German and Russian geneticists to schedule the next congress for Moscow, it was decided to hold the next congress in 1932 not in the Soviet Union, but in the recognized center of the discipline—the United States. US and Soviet genetics Despite this setback, between the congresses Soviet geneticists greatly expanded their international contacts, particularly with US colleagues.

In 1908, in Berlin, Erwin Baur founded the first specialized journal in the field—Zeitschrift f ür induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre ( Journal for the Inductive Study of Evolution and Heredity). The next year, a chair of genetics was Genetics as an international science 15 created in Cambridge University, and Bateson’s collaborator Reginald C. Punnett became the world’s first professor of genetics. A year later, in 1910, the John Innes Horticultural Institution was founded in London with Bateson as its first director.

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