Kategoria: Yleinen
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Frog legs, headless corpses, and Frankenstein – A Halloween-inspired look on the history of electricity
It all started with frog legs, namely the frog legs being tested upon by the Italian physician Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) in Bologna. Galvani discovered what he called “animal electricity” by showing that frog legs would move and their muscles contract when the nerves in the legs were exposed to zinc and copper rods. Many ideas…
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Team day to kick off the new academic year!
We had the first ELBOW Team day for this academic year in the early October, and it was a great team day. We don’t all live in Helsinki, so we organize every now and then days when we all meet and work together in Helsinki. As you can see from the picture, we have a…
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Hope and medical electricity – new publication!
Our researcher Annika Raapke has written a blog post about medical electricity for Hoffnung handeln – L’espérance en action -blog. The blogpost is in German and its title is Ein Funke, kaum zu seh’n… Hoffnung und die Kräfte der medizinischen Elektrizität, 1740-1790. As translated in English, the title is Hope and the Forces of Medical…
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Dr Ylivuori is now Associate Professor Ylivuori!
Dr Soile Ylivuori, the ELBOW project leader, has been appointed Associate Professor in History at the University of Helsinki. So, since 1st of October, the ELBOW project has an Associate Professor in its team. If you want to read the news in Finnish, do have a look at this blogpost on the Historia-blog (the blog…
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