In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual scientists, institutions such as funding bodies took an active interest in shaping the scientific persona. As a case in point, we discuss the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) that sent hundreds of aspiring Belgian scientists to the United States during the Interwar period. The BAEF went to great lengths to optimise its selection procedure and formulated conditions pertaining to both the mental and physical fitness of its grantees. In this way, the BAEF cut off some repertoires of being a scientist and encouraged its fellows to demonstrate certain qualities when in front of the funding body. This, we argue, points to the performa...
The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute...
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of th...
This article seeks to draw lessons regarding the history of scientific entrepreneurship and the dete...
In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual ...
In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual ...
The Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) was created in 1919 as an offspring of two humani...
This contribution studies the CRB Educational Foundation’s travel programme between Belgium and the ...
The concept of ‘scholarly personae’ emerged about a decade ago in the history of science. Since then...
In this article Bosch argues in favour of an understanding of the concept of ‘persona’ in which embo...
During the first decade after the end of the War, the economic situation of the Belgian universities...
In this article Bosch argues in favour of an understanding of the concept of ‘persona’ in which embo...
This article examines the notion of the \u27scientist as a moral person\u27 in the light of the earl...
The idea that academic work requires certain personal qualities, character traits or dispositions is...
Since the 19th century, universities are the locus of most public research in Belgium, with a ongoin...
The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute...
The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute...
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of th...
This article seeks to draw lessons regarding the history of scientific entrepreneurship and the dete...
In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual ...
In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual ...
The Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) was created in 1919 as an offspring of two humani...
This contribution studies the CRB Educational Foundation’s travel programme between Belgium and the ...
The concept of ‘scholarly personae’ emerged about a decade ago in the history of science. Since then...
In this article Bosch argues in favour of an understanding of the concept of ‘persona’ in which embo...
During the first decade after the end of the War, the economic situation of the Belgian universities...
In this article Bosch argues in favour of an understanding of the concept of ‘persona’ in which embo...
This article examines the notion of the \u27scientist as a moral person\u27 in the light of the earl...
The idea that academic work requires certain personal qualities, character traits or dispositions is...
Since the 19th century, universities are the locus of most public research in Belgium, with a ongoin...
The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute...
The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute...
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of th...
This article seeks to draw lessons regarding the history of scientific entrepreneurship and the dete...