Klein, Ursula

PERSONAL: Female. Education: Free University of Berlin, M.A., 1979; University of Konstanz, Ph.D., 1993.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02142-1493.

CAREER: Writer. Teacher of chemistry, biology, and philosophy, 1980–88; Research Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Berlin, Germany, postdoctoral fellow, 1993–95; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, research scholar, 1995–97, director in independent research group, 1998–; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, visiting research scholar, 1996–98; Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA, resident senior fellow, 1997–98. Member of Ambix editorial board.

MEMBER: Federation of European Chemical Societies.

WRITINGS:

Verbindung und Affinität: Die Grundlegung der neuzetilichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert, Birkhäuser (Boston, MA), 1994.

(Editor and contributor) Tools and Modes of Representation in the Library Sciences, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 2001.

Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals, including Science in Context, Philosophia Naturalis, NTM: Internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Ethik der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Foundations in Chemistry, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies, Storia della scienza, and Perspectives on Science. Contributor to books, including Die Entwicklung unserer Atom-und Moleküvorstellungen, edited by Peter C. Hägele and Axel Schunk, Universitätsverlag Ulm (Ulm, Germany), 1994; Dilettanten und Wissenschaft: Zur Geschichte und Aktualität eines wechselvollen Verhältnisses, edited by Elizabeth Strauß, Rodopi (Amsterdam, Holland), 1996; Experimental Essays—Versuche zum Experiment, edited by Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Steinle, Nomos Verlagsgesellshaft (Baden-Baden, Germany), 1998; Models as Mediators, edited by Mary S. Morgan and Margaret C. Morrison, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1999; Ars Mutandi: Issues in Philosophy and History of Chemistry, edited by Nikos Psarros and Kostas Gavroglu, Leipziger Universitätsverlag (Leipzig, Germany), 1999; and Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences, edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Kluwer (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 2003.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Canadian Journal of History, April, 2004, Trevor H. Levere, review of Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, p. 214.

Chemistry and Industry, October 20, 2003, William Brock, review of Experiments, Models, Paper Tools, p. 25.