History of Science: Institutions and geographic places

General items

• The Humboldt Scientific Locality Index
  The index will collect, and make easily accessible, significant information on the early growth of science in representative countries around the world.

Individual institutions and places

For the homepages of the universities see Education: Universities.

For astronomical institutions and places see History of Astronomy: Observatories and other places.

• Aachen, Germany
  • Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (in German)
• Augsburg, Germany
  • University (in German)
• Australia
  • History of Australian Science and Technology
• Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Johns Hopkins University
• Basel, Switzerland
  • University (in German)
• Berkeley, California, USA
  • Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• Berlin, Germany
  • Humboldt-Universität (now available also in English)
  • Humboldt-Universität (in German)
    (1828-1945: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität)
  • Fritz-Haber-Institut
    (formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry)
  • Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt / Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  • Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt / Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (in German)
  • Technische Universität (in German)
  • Technische Universität 50 Jahre (in German)
• Berne (Bern), Switzerland
  • University Library of Berne (in German)
• Bonn, Germany
  • University
• Braunschweig, Germany
  • Technische Universität (in German)
    Formerly Collegium Carolinum / Polytechnische Schule / Herzogliche Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina
• Budapest, Hungary
  • Loránd Eötvös University
  • Technical University of Budapest
• Cambridge, UK
  • University of Cambridge
  • Science in Cambridge through the centuries (1209-1995)
  • Physics in Cambridge / Cavendish Laboratory
• Catania, Italy
  • University of Catania Page under construction
• Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • Ohio State University
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Niels Bohr Institute
• Croatia
  • Croatia, an Overview of its History, Culture and Science
    Including history of science
• Dresden, Germany
  • Technische Universität (in German)
• Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinrich-Heine-Universität
    • Portrait (including history)
    • Portrait (in German)
    • Chronik (in German)
• Estonia
  • Estonian Science
• Florence and Tuscany
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (in German)
• Ghent (Gent, Gand), Belgium
  • University of Ghent
• Göttingen, Germany
  • Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen (in German)
• Graz, Austria
  • Karl-Franzens University
  • Karl-Franzens-Universität (in German)
  • Karl-Franzens-Universität (in German)
• Greece (including Ancient Greece)
  • Greek Science
• Greifswald, Germany
  • Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University
  • Physics at Greifswald
• Hamburg, Germany
  • Universität Hamburg (in German)
• Heidelberg, Germany
  • Ruprecht-Karls-Universität (in German)
• Italy in the Middle Ages and untill 1600
• Jena, Germany
  • Carl Zeiss Companies
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (in German)
  • Bedeutende Persönlichkeiten aus der Universitätsgeschichte (in German)
• Korea
  • The History of Science in Korea from Korea through Pictures
  • History of Scientific Development in Korea (Chapter 16.1. of A Window on Korea)
• Leipzig, Germany
  • Universität Leipzig (in German)
  • Physikalisches Institut der Universität (in German)
• Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Mainz, Germany
  • Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (in German)
• Munich (München), Germany
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (in German)
  • History of the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik / Werner-Heisenberg-Institut
    (formerly Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut für Physik at Berlin)
  • Die Geschichte der Mathematik an der TU (in German)
• Penc, Hungary
  • Satellite Geodetic Observatory
• Pasadena, California, USA
  • California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
    George Ellery Hale is mentioned and cited
  • History of women at Caltech
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • The Franklin Institute
• Pisa, Italy
  • Istituto di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa
• Potsdam, Germany
  • Geosciences at the Telegrafenberg
    (a page from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam)
• Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
  • Charles University (in Czech)
• Rostock, Germany
  • Universität (in German)
• San Francisco, California, USA
  • Silicon Valley
  • see also: Stanford
• Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
  • University of Washington: historic tour
• Shanghai, China
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Slovenia
  • Scientific Endeavor in Slovenia - a Historical Overview
• Stanford, California, USA
  • Stanford University
• Tartu, Estonia
  • University of Tartu
• Toronto, Canada
  • University of Toronto
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
  • University of Alabama
• Westford, Massachusetts, USA
  • Millstone Hill Observatory
    A broad-based atmospheric sciences research facility

See also:

• WWWVL History of Science: Historical Directory of Scientific Institutions

To the History of Astronomy homepage