A ligação dos cientistas a questões militares é usualmente desvalorizada pelos próprios, tendendo as suas narrativas históricas a destacar as realizações que empreenderam e seus consequentes benefícios para a sociedade. Ciência e Tecnologia na Estratégia da NATO avalia a relação estabelecida entre instituições científicas e militares ao abrigo do Programa de Ciência NATO. Uma plêiade de temas, e de actores huma...
This paper provides a contribution to the history of physics in the period between the two world wars, examining relations between the physics laboratories of the University of Lisbon Faculty of Science and the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon on the one hand and the Laboratoire Curie, the Collège de France and other prestigious science institutions on the other hand. The location of the two Lisbon laborato...
This paper provides a contribution to the history of physics in the period between the two world wars, examining relations between the physics laboratories of the University of Lisbon Faculty of Science and the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon on the one hand and the Laboratoire Curie, the Collège de France and other prestigious science institutions on the other hand. The location of the two Lisbon laborato...
In this chapter, we propose to analyse Portugal’s participation in the League of Nations by focusing on Portuguese efforts to take a seat on the Executive Council as a non-permanent member. For Portugal, a seat on the Executive Council represented the starting point for finding solutions to the vast majority of the problems that afflicted the country. Portugal, as a small power, was aware of the prestige it cou...
PHONLAB is an R&D project on the history of experimental phonetics, funded by the Portuguese body, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – Foundation for Science and Technology. It brings together researchers from the Universities of Évora (Portugal), Coimbra (Portugal) and Stockholm (Sweden), and aims to recover for historiography and the collective memory the importance of the Experimental Phonetics Labo...
This paper is a contribution to the history of experimental phonetics seen from the perspective of the emergence, development, and impact of the experimental phonetics laboratory operating at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, from 1936 to 1979, which was considered by many experts in the mid-20th century as the most advanced in Europe. The history of the laboratory is presented in four sections, discussing: ...
Tradicionalmente entendida como um fracasso, pela incapacidade em evitar a eclosão da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Sociedade das Nações (SDN) tem recebido nos últimos anos uma nova atenção dos historiadores. A reinterpretação historiográfica da instituição sedeada em Genebra pauta-se pela nova perspectivação do seu papel, acções, modus operandi e herança, nomeadamente ao nível da pioneira acção transnacional do se...
No ano de 1936, o foneticista português Armando de Lacerda (1902-1984) criou na Universidade de Coimbra o Laboratório de Fonética Experimental. Equipado com modernos cromógrafos e aplicando métodos inovadores para a análise dos sons da linguagem, este espaço chegou a ser considerado por diversos membros da comunidade internacional como o mais avançado laboratório de Fonética Experimental da Europa. O estudo cie...
The aim of PHONLAB is to conduct a case study of the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1936-1979). Created by Portuguese phonetician Armando de Lacerda (1902-1984), the laboratory attracted scientists from leading universities such as Harvard, Cambridge and Bonn, who sought specialist training in the use of innovative laboratory research techniques. How is it that in a country regarded as being scienti...
The Experimental Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Coimbra Faculty of Letters was regarded in the mid-twentieth century as the most advanced laboratory of its kind in Europe. Scientists from all over the world (the universities of Harvard, Paris, Cambridge, Bonn, Texas, Toulouse, Milan, Salvador da Bahia, Madrid, Accra, Uppsala, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona and Edinburgh) worked at the laboratory car...