Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: The relationship between academic chem. and the chem. industry was the focus of the debate between Ivan Levinstein and Henry Enfield Roscoe in the 19th century. The British synthetic dye industry had declined within two decades after its establishment in 1856. Levinstein attributed this decline to the lack of cooperation between the industry and the academia. However, Roscoe opposed this view because he believed that the decline in the dye industry was the lack of training in pure chem. before going into the practical uses of chem. in industry. The First World War showed that Levinstein was correct as it exposed the inadequacies of the British chem. industry as a result of lack of investment in research and the failure to train chemists in practical work by the universities.
Author: Martin D. Saltzman
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408346409