In defense of the use of the French language in scientific communication, 1965-1985: National and international deliberations and an ingeniously clever takeoff on the theme by R. B. Woodward
Gal, Joseph
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Title
In defense of the use of the French language in scientific communication, 1965-1985: National and international deliberations and an ingeniously clever takeoff on the theme by R. B. Woodward
Author(s)
Gal, Joseph
Issue Date
2014-03-15
Keyword(s)
History
Chemistry
Review defense use french language scientific communication national international
Abstract
A review. For many decades, French scientists, the French Academie des Sciences, and the government of France have been concerned about the declining use of French within the scientific milieu and the trend toward English as the universally-accepted language to communicate science. This trend is discussed with a focus on the issues most vigorously debated in the time period 1965-1985, including the reduced use of French in international scientific communication resulting from the dominance of English. A summary of the merging of national-chem.-society journals into international journals is also presented. A set of previously unpublished documents from 1965 written by the late Robert Burns Woodward-actually a linguistic twist on La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, that addresses the French-English debate-and his letter and enclosures to Jean-Marie Lehn are included and discussed.
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://hdl.handle.net/2142/127886
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2014v039p073
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