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Acknowledgments
Author(s): Pnina G. Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott
Source: Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 14, Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives
on the Politics of Collective Memory (1999), p. vii
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society
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 Acknowledgments
We are very gratefulfor the graciouscooperationof an internationalcommunityof
contributors-hailing from Canada, France, Germany,Israel, and the United
States-who have enabled us to producethe first multi-author,English-language
volumeon the historyof scientificcommemorations.We areparticularlythankfulto
ProfessorCharlesS. Maier,Directorof the Mindade GunzburgCenterfor European
Studiesat HarvardUniversityanda pioneerin the studyof commemoration,history,
and memory,for findingthe time to write the volume'sPreface.
Eightout of the fourteenpapersin this volumeoriginatedin a symposiumheld on
April 10 and 11, 1995, as partof the BostonColloquiumfor Philosophyof Science at
Boston University(establishedin 1960 by RobertS. Cohen and MarxWartofsky).
We are indebtedto ProfessorAlfred I. Tauberfor includingour symposiumin his
Colloquiumandfor extendinghospitalityto ourcontributors,especiallyto co-editor
PninaG. Abir-Am,who organizedthe symposiumduringa researchfellowship at
Boston University.
This volume requireda large numberof referees from inside and outside the
United States to whom we are much indebtedfor helpful advice. In addition,we
benefitedfromthe generosityof severalcolleagues,most notablyBartonBernstein,
CathrynCarson,Joy Harvey,Mike Neufeld, andAlex Roland.
One of us (PGA) wishes to acknowledgethe ongoing hospitalityand intellectual
stimulationprovidedby the DibnerInstitutefor the Historyof Science andTechnol-
ogy at M.I.T.andits Burdy Library;by the Centerfor EuropeanStudiesat Harvard
University;andby the NationalScience Foundation,especially throughits STS-95-
25794 researchgrant.
Above all, we wish to expressour gratitudeto the Osiris Editor-in-Chief,Profes-
sor MargaretW. Rossiterof CornellUniversity,for her unfailingconfidencein our
project,to the Osiris EditorialBoardfor acceptingour volume proposal,andto the
Osiris staff for its braveand devotedhandlingof the productionprocess.
PninaG. Abir-Am
ClarkA. Elliott

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