Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt

The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.

The Biologische Versuchsanstalt was founded in Vienna in 1902 with the explicit goal to foster the quantification, mathematization, and theory formation of the biological sciences. Three biologists from affluent Viennese Jewish families--Hans Przibram, Wilhelm Figdor, and Leopold von Portheim-founded,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036703
• ISBN13: 9780262036702
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher