Academia and industry: What should their relationship be? The Levinstein-Roscoe dialog

Saltzman, Martin D.

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Title

Academia and industry: What should their relationship be? The Levinstein-Roscoe dialog

Author(s)

Saltzman, Martin D.

Issue Date

1999-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Chem Industry Chem Education History

Abstract

The relationship between academic chem. and the chem. industry was the focus of the debate between Ivan Levinstein and Henry Enfield Roscoe in the 19th century. The British synthetic dye industry had declined within two decades after its establishment in 1856. Levinstein attributed this decline to the lack of cooperation between the industry and the academia. However, Roscoe opposed this view because he believed that the decline in the dye industry was the lack of training in pure chem. before going into the practical uses of chem. in industry. The First World War showed that Levinstein was correct as it exposed the inadequacies of the British chem. industry as a result of lack of investment in research and the failure to train chemists in practical work by the universities.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc1999n23p034

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Copyright 1999 Division of the History of Chemistry

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