Nils Roll-Hansen
Encyclopedia
Nils Roll-Hansen is a historian and philosopher of 19th and 20th century biology at University of Oslo
. He is the author of four books and many academic articles. His book "The Lysenko Effect" was praised in Nature
. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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University of Oslo
The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
. He is the author of four books and many academic articles. His book "The Lysenko Effect" was praised in Nature
Nature (journal)
Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway.-History:The University of Oslo was established in 1811. The idea of a learned society in Christiania surfaced for the first time in 1841. The city of Throndhjem had no university, but had a learned...
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Books
- The Lysenko Effect: The Politics Of Science. (Humanity Books, December 2004) ISBN 1591022622
- (co-author Gunnar Broberg), Eugenics And the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Demark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Nov 2005)
- Reductionism in biological research: Three historical case studies. (1979)
- Forskningens frihet og nødvendighet: Pasteurs teorier i vekst og forfall (Fakkel-bøkene)
External links
- Nils Roll-Hansen Faculty page
- Nils Roll-Hansen Publications