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Title Experimental biology in the Vienna Prater : on the history of the Institute for Experimental Biology 1902 to 1945 / Klaus Taschwer, Johannes Feichtinger, Stefan Sienell, Heidemarie Uhl (eds.) ; translation from German: Joanna White
Published Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences, [2016]

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Summary Annotation English summary: The Institute for Experimental Biology (Biologische Versuchsanstalt, or BVA) in the Vienna Prater was one of the world's leading research institutes for experimental biology until the Anschluss of Austria in 1938. The Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was given the BVA in 1914, organised several events in 2014 and 2015 to commemorate Austria's first privately founded research institute and its groundbreaking findings. This catalogue documents the turbulent history of this unique institute and its retrieval to collective memory. German description: Die Biologische Versuchsanstalt (BVA) im Wiener Prater war bis zum "Anschluss" Osterreichs 1938 eines der weltweit fuhrenden Forschungsinstitute fur Experimentalbiologie. Die Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, der die BVA 1914 geschenkt worden war, erinnerte 2014 und 2015 in mehreren Veranstaltungen an diese erste privat gegrundete Forschungseinrichtung des Landes und ihre bahnbrechenden Erkenntnisse. Der Katalog dokumentiert die bewegte Geschichte des einzigartigen Instituts und seine Ruckholung ins kollektive Gedachtnis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67)
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Subject Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften -- History
SUBJECT Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften fast
Subject Biology -- Austria -- Vienna -- History
Research institutes -- History
Biology
Research institutes
Austria -- Vienna
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Taschwer, Klaus, 1967- editor.
Feichtinger, Johannes, editor.
Sienell, Stefan, 1966- editor.
Uhl, Heidemarie, editor.
White, Joanna (Translator), translator.
ISBN 9783700180340
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3700180012
9783700180012