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2017
- handle: 10670/1.u5xhvl
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materials science and engineering solid-state chemistry glass materials differentiation of labor bench culture scientific disciplines telecommunication R&DSujets proches
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Pierre Teissier, « The Exotic Glasses of Rennes (France): Local Knowledge-Making in Global Telecommunication », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.u5xhvl
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This chapter tackles the question of local knowledge-making in changing scientific and economic environments in the field of advanced materials. It relies on a case study at the University of Rennes, in Western France, where the chemistry laboratory of Jacques Lucas conducted a program on non-oxide glass materials from the 1960s onwards. The chapter aims at explaining how the local production of these “exotic glasses” in Rennes was both shaped by a bench culture of solid-state chemistry and international R&D supported by the telecommunications industry. This case exhibits how research on materials was organized by a transatlantic division of labor in the Western world.