Rebecca Mertens
Rebecca Mertens (PhD), born in 1984, is a postdoctoral researcher in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She works on the role of analogies, models and forms of comparison in the history of molecular genetics and is a member of the collaborative research program "Practices of Comparison: Ordering and Changing the World". During her graduate and doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a visiting graduate fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
transcript-Publications in the Research Fields: History, History of Science and Technology
Publications in the Series: Science Studies
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Uni Bielefeld
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The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
Book Chapter
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The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs
Frontmatter
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Table of contents
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Preface
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1 The lock-and-key analogy and its influence on 20th century biochemistry
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2 The lock-and-key analogy in Emil Fischer's program on sugar fermentation, 1890-1907
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3 The making of the lock-and-key model of the antibody-antigen relationship, 1886-1930
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4 Lock-and-key foundations for molecular biology: Linus Pauling and the Caltech group, 1930-1960
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5 Lock-and-key-based modeling and its influence on the development of biochemical research programs
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6 Concluding remarks on the construction of analogy-based research programs
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Literature
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