Conference: "El poder de la química: ciència i política al segle XX"
This conference was part of the activities of the Josep Fontana Chair and was organized by the Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History (IUHJVV) of the University Pompeu Fabra with the collaboration of the Barcelona Provincial Council and took place on September 30th, 2024 in the Mercè Rodoreda Auditorium of the Campus of the Pompeu Fabra University.
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Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and ICREA Acadèmia research fellow (since 2009). Following degrees in both chemistry and history, he took his PhD in the History of Science at the Universitat de Barcelona and held postdoctoral positions in the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, and the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie/ CNRS, Paris. He has written widely on the history of chemistry and natural dyestuffs, and the history of the popularization of science (18th-20th centuries). He is a founding member of the international research group “Science and Technology in the European Periphery” (STEP), Director (until 2023) and member of the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC) at the UAB. His latest works are: The Politics of Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Tóxicos Invisibles (Icaria, 2020, edited with Ximo Guillem-Llobat).