Ernst Homburg

Homburg Ernst. The Emergence of Research Laboratories in the Dyestuffs Industry, 1870-1900 , British Journal for the History of Science, 25 (84), (1992), 91-111. 

Homburg, Ernst, Anthony S. Travis, and Harm G. Schroter (eds.). The Chemical Industry in Europe,... 

Homburg, Ernst, with cooperation by Arjan van Rooij (2004), Groeien door kunstmest DSM Agro 1929-2004, Verloren, Hilversum. 

Vledder, Ingrid, Homburg, Ernst and Houwaart, Eddy (1999-2000), Particulier laboratoria in Nederland, NEHA-Jaarboek voor de economische-, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis 62, 249 290 and 63, 104-142. 

Homburg, Ernst. 1993. Van beroep Chemiker De opkomst van de industriele chemicus en het polytechnische onderwijs in Duitsland (1790-1850). Delft Delftse Universitaire Pers. 

Ernst Homburg, Lothar Meinzer, Peter J.T. Morris, Carsten Reinhardt and Harm G. Schrdter are thanked for providing information that has been invaluable to this contribution, and also for critical comments. 

Carsten Reinhardt, An instrument of corporate strategy The central research laboratory at BASF, 1868-1890, in Ernst Homburg, Harm SchrOter, and Anthony S. Travis, eds. The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914 Industrial Growth, Pollution and Professionalization Dox tQcht Kluwer, 1998). 

I would like to thank Ernst Homburg, Raymond G. Stokes, Anthony S. Travis, Basil G. Achilladelis, Ulrich Marsch and J. Eric Elliott for their criticisms and suggestions any mistakes that remain are, of course, wholly my own. 

Cf Seymour M. Mauskopf, Introduction, in Mauskopf, ed.. Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) Ernst Homburg, The emergence of research laboratories in the dyestuff industry, 1879-1900, British Journal for the History of Science, 25 (1992), 91-111. The many often excellent studies on laboratory life we have today rarely relate academic work to industrialization. 

I thank participants at the ESF Workshop in Strasbourg for stimulating discussions, and Ernst Homburg and the members of my own Institute for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. 

Elisabeth Gamsey, University of Cambridge, Ernst Homburg, University of Maastricht, and Peter J.T. Morris, Science Museum, London, are thanked for assistance with information used in this paper, and also for critical comments. 

Ernst Homburg studied chemistry in Amsterdam, and continued as researcher and assistant professor in the fields of history and chemistry and society at the universities of Groningen and Nijmegen. His Ph.D. thesis, on the rise of the profession of the industrial chemist in Germany (1790-1850), was published in 1993 (Fan beroep Chemiker, Delft University Press). He is editor of a book series on the history of technology in the Netherlands and is at present connected to the history department of the University of Maastricht. 

Cf. Ernst Homburg, Operating on Several Fronts (paper in this volume). 

P.G.A. Smith, The Shell that Hit Germany the Hardest (London Shell Marketing, 1919), 5-11 see also Ernst Homburg in this volume. 

I wish to thank especially Roy MacLeod, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Ernst Homburg, Erik Langlinay, Seymour H. Mauskopf, Mario Morselli, and John K. Smith for their... 

Travis, Anthony S. Modernizing Industrial Organic Chemistry Great Britain between Two World Wars, in Anthony S. Travis, Harm G. Schroter, Ernst Homburg and Peter J.T. Morris (eds.). Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939 New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies (Dordrecht, NL Kluwer, 1998), 171-198. 

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