HIJMANS Sarah - Laboratoire SPHERE

Docteure en histoire et philosophie des sciences, Université Paris-Cité, Laboratoire SPHERE UMR 7219

Thèse "From Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the Identification of Chemical Elements in Practice between 1770 and 1870"
Directeur de thèse Dr. Jean-Pierre Llored (Associate Professor, Ecole Centrale Casablanca)

Thèmes de recherche :

Histoire et Philosophie de la Chimie
Chimie des 18e et 19e siècles
Le concept d’élément chimique
Analogie chimique et classification
Pratiques et expérimentation scientifique
Histoire du laboratoire (chimique)

Enseignements

Cursus

Publications

Communications

Présentations orales lors de colloques internationaux

2022 :

"Scientific authority in mineral analysis : Heinrich Rose (1795-1864) and Hans Rudolph Hermann (1805-1879)", European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, Bruxelles, 7-10 septembre 2022.
"What is an element ? Applying pragmatist realist epistemology to the study of chemical concepts", Realism for Realistic People : A Copenhagen-Cambridge symposium on Hasok Chang’s philosophy of science, Copenhagues, 29-30 juin 2022.

2021 :

"The tantalum metals and the attribution of elementary status in nineteenth-century analytical chemistry", 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), 25-31 juillet 2021.
"The many fathers of aluminium : collaboration, credit and the construction of discovery", 24th Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC), 12-21 juillet 2021.
"Chemical Analogy, Classification and the Nature of the Halogens", British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) Annual Conference, 7-9 juillet 2021.

2020 :

“Simplicity and analogy : the elementary nature of the halogens”, 6th Panhellenic Conference for the Philosophy of Science, 3-6 Décembre 2020.
"Analogy, Indecomposability and the Discovery of Aluminium", 9th European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, 31 août - 3 septembre 2020

2019 :

"Composition and analogy in 19th-century chemistry : the case of aluminium", European Society for the Philosophy of Science Association 2019 conference, 11-14 septembre 2019
"Understanding the chemical elements : a reflection on the importance of the periodic table", 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, 5-10 août 2019
"The building blocks of matter : the chemical element in 18th and 19th-century views of composition", 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, 5-10 août 2019
"How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences ? The case of the element chlorine", avec Jean-Pierre Llored, Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Torino, 15-17 juillet 2019
"Oxygen and the reactions of life in Lavoisier’s chemistry", Bridging the Philosophies of Biology and Chemistry, Paris, 25-27 juin 2019
"Criteria of Elementhood : Debates on Vanadium, Tantalum and Niobium in 19th century Chemistry", British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, 10-12 avril 2019

2018 :

"Chemical Elements and Chemical Substances : Rethinking Paneth’s Distinction", Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Bristol,16-18 juillet 2018

2017 :

"What Are Elements ? Pragmatic Approach to the Meaning of a Chemical Concept", Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Paris, 3-5 juillet 2017

Sur invitation

2023 :

"The history of chemical elements and the study of scientific concepts in practice", Posgrado en Historia de la Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 27 mars 2023.

2022 :

"The Tantalum Metals (1801-1866) : Nineteenth-Century Analytical Chemistry and the Identification of Chemical Elements", AD HOC (Association for the Discussion of the History of Chemistry), University of Cambridge, 17 octobre 2022

2021 :

"The tantalum metals : Inorganic analysis and elementary nature in 19th-century chemistry", Ateliers d’histoire et philosophie de la physique, Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Cité, 18 mai 2021.

2019 :

"Composition and analogy in 19th-century chemistry : the case of aluminium", Association for the Discussion of the History of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 18 novembre 2019
"Criteria of Elementhood : Debates on Vanadium, Tantalum and Niobium in 19th century Chemistry", Identity in Science & Philosophy, workshop du Laboratoire International Associé (LIA) Identités, Forces, Quanta, Université Paris-Cité, 29-30 juillet 2019
"From Lavoisier to Chancourtois : definitions and classifications of the chemical element", séminaire PHASE-CHIMIE, Université Paris-Cité, 19 juin 2019

Grand Public