期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2005
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：167-168
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Despite a rather vague and non-engaging title, this collective volume is the outcome of a great historical event: a solemn ceremony for the inauguration of a statue of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in the Hall of Fame of the Deutsche Museum in September 2003. Why is it so unique. After all, statues of the 'founding fathers' of disciplines can be found in many halls and auditoriums of academic buildings around the world. Commemorations of their heroic achievements are integral parts of rou-tine scientific conferences. And dozens of conferences have celebrated Lavoisier in 1994, for the bicentennial anniversary of his tragic death on the guillotine. However the 'postponed' celebration of the Deutsche Museum had a special meaning. Even though the bust of Lavoisier is not a masterpiece of arts, it has a symbolic value in this location. As CHRISTOPH MEINEL's contribution to the volume reminds us, the Ehrensaal in the Deutsche Museum inaugurated in 1925 was initially meant to celebrate the supremacy of German science and no foreign scientist had been admitted in this national Pantheon until Lavoisier in September 2003. This introduction was all the more meaningful since in the context of Nazism, Paul Walden, a fa-mous German physical chemist had dis-credited Lavoisier in the name of a ho-listic Deutsche Chemie
