GEHC History of Science Studies Research Group

The History of Science Unit is a research group formally recognized and supported by the AGAUR (Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of the Government of Catalonia) it is also funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Our research interests range from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, but mainly focus on the following issues: the history of mathematics and mixed mathematics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their relations with Renaissance art, literature and philosophy; the history of the twentieth century large scientific and technological complex, in particular the European nuclear energy programs and twentieth-century pharmaceutical research and production system; the history of science in Francoist Spain and the history of science in the European periphery; and the relation between science and power in twentieth-century Europe.