Prof. Dr. Ernst Homburg

professor history of science and technology

Ernst Homburg is professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Maastricht. After his chemistry studies in Amsterdam, he graduated in history at the University of Nijmegen with a dissertation on the rise of the German chemical profession, 1790-1850. He was one of the editors of two book series on the History of Technology in the Netherlands in the 19th resp. the 20th century, and one of the chemistry editors of the 8-volume New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Thomson Gale, 2007). His most recent books are on the history of one of the largest European fertiliser companies: Groeien door kunstmest: DSM Agro 1929-2004 (Hilversum: Verloren 2004) and on Dutch chemistry after 1945: E. Homburg and L. Palm (eds.), De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland 3: De ontwikkeling van de chemie van 1945 tot het begin van de jaren tachtig (Delft: Delft University Press 2004). At present, together with Nicolas Coupain and Kenneth Bertrams, he is writing a book on the 150-years history of the Solvay company.

Keywords

  • history
  • history of science
  • history of technology
  • chemistry
  • business history
  • chemical industry
  • environmental history
  • Solvay
  • studies on the social-economic history of Limburg
  • Technology in The Netherlands in the twentieth century

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