Institutions

Extra-European Societies and Associations devoted to History of Science and cognate fields

Committee for Integrated HPS

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (DHST/IUHPS),

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) https://easst.net/

European Society for the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS) http://www.eshhs.eu/wordpress-3.3.1/wordpress/

International Academy of the History of Science/ Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences / [it is not really a society] http://www.aihs-iahs.org/

International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group (IHPST) https://ihpst.clubexpress.com/

History of Science Society (HSS) https://hssonline.org/

HOPOS – The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science http://hopos.org/

International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology https://www.ishpssb.org/

Newcomen – The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology https://www.newcomen.com/

Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) https://www.historyoftechnology.org/

History of Science Societies in Europe 

AUSTRIA
Austrian Society for the History of Science/ Österreichische Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ÖGW) http://wissenschaftsgeschichte.ac.at/

BALTIC COUNTRIES
Baltic Association for the History and Philosophy of Science http://www.bahps.org/

BELGIUM – NETHERLANDS
Belgian-Dutch Society for History of Science and Universities/ Belgisch-Nederlands genootschap voor wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis (GEWINA) http://www.gewina.nl/

CROATIA
Croatian Society for the History of Health Culture/ Rijeka i Riječani u medicinskoj povjesnici

CZECH REPUBLIC
Society for the History of Sciences and Technology of the Czech Republic/ Společnost pro dějiny věd a techniky (sDVTcz) https://sdvt.cz/index_e.html

DENMARK
Danish Society for the History of Science/ Videnskabshistorisk Selskab http://www.videnskabshistorisk.dk/EnglishInfo.htm

Danish Society for the History of Technology/ Dansk Teknologihistorisk Selskab http://teknologihistorie.dk/

Danish Medical-Historical Society/ Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab http://www.dmhs1917.dk/english/

FINLAND
The Finnish Society for the History of Science and Learning/ Suomen Oppihistoriallinen Seura http://www.oppihistoriallinenseura.fi/

FRANCE
French Committee for the History of Geology/Comité Français d’Histoire de la Géologie (COFRHIGEO) http://annales.org/archives/cofrhigeo/

French Society for the History of Humans Sciences/ Société Française pour l’Histoire des Sciences de l’Homme (SFHSH) https://sfhsh.hypotheses.org/la-sfhsh

French Society for the History of Medicine/ Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine (SFHM) https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/sfhm/

French Society for the History of Science and Technology/ Société Française d’Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (SFHST) https://sfhst.hypotheses.org/

Society for the history and philosophy of the life sciences/Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie (SHESVie) https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/shesvie/statuts.php

GERMANY
German Society for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine/ Die Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT) https://www.gwmt.de/

ITALY
Italian Society of the History of Science/ Società Italiana di Storia della Sicenza (SISS)
https://www.siss.uniba.it/

Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy/ Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia (SISFA) http://www.sisfa.org/

Italian Society for the History of Mathematics/ Società Italiana della Storia della Matematiche (SISM) www.dm.unito.it/sism/

Italian Group for the Foundations and History of Chemistry/ Gruppo Nazionale di Fondamenti e Storia della Chimica http://www.gnfsc.it/

Italian Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology and Medicine/ Società Italiana di storia, filosofia e studi sociali della Biologia e della Medicina (BIOM) http://www.sibiom.org/

POLAND
Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Historii Nauki PAN im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów) http://ihnpan.waw.pl/

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (RSHPS)/ Рyсское общество истории и философии науки http://rshps.org/language/en/

SPAIN
Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology/ Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) https://blogs.iec.cat/schct/

Spanish Society for the History of Science and Technology/Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas (SEHCYT) https://sehcyt.es/

SWITZERLAND
Swiss Society for the history of Universities and Science/Gesellschaft für Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (GUW) https://guw-online.net/

Swiss Society of the History of Medicine and Sciences/ Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften (SGGMN/SSHMSN) http://www.sggmn.ch/home-e.html

TURKEY
History of Science in Turkey / Bilim Tarihi http://www.bilimtarihi.org/

UNITED KINGDOM
British Society for the History of Mathematics https://www.bshm.ac.uk/

British Society for the History of Science www.bshs.org.uk

British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) https://www.ambix.org/

Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) https://shnh.org.uk/

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) https://sshm.org/

Research institutions and centers

ITALY
The Museo Galilei, Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence https://www.museogalileo.it/en/

Interuniversity Centre Seminar for the History of Science/ Seminario di Storia della Scienza https://www.seminariodistoriadellascienza.uniba.it/

FRANCE
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Histoire des sciences et des techniques http://koyre.ehess.fr/?lang=en&curr=0

Centre François Viète d’épistémologie et d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (CFV) https://cfv.univ-nantes.fr/

The SPHERE Research Unit, CNRS, Paris/ Laboratoire SPHere http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/?lang=en

GERMANY
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/ Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsche Museum, Munich / Das Forschungsinstitut für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/the-research-institute/

PORTUGAL
Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology/ Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT) https://ciuhct.org/en

SPAIN
Department of the History of Science of the Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council http://cchs.csic.es/es/research-dpto/dpto-historia-ciencia

Interuniversity institute López Piñero/ Institut interuniversitari López Piñero www.uv.es/ihmc

Institució Milà i Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades/ historia de la ciencia https://www.imf.csic.es/index.php/historia-de-la-ciencia

SWEDEN
Center for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm/ Centrum för vetenskapshistoria https://centrum.kva.se/en/startsida

THE NETHERLANDS
Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands/ Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING) https://en.huygens.knaw.nl/

UK
The Royal Institution https://www.rigb.org/

History of science departments, programs and centers affiliated to European universities

BELGIUM
Sarton Centre for History of Science, Ghent University https://www.sarton.ugent.be/

DENMARK
Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies (MeST), University of Copenhagen https://medicalsts.ku.dk/

Center for Science Studies, Aarhus University https://css.au.dk/en/studies/

Niels Bohr Archive, University of Copenhagen, https://www.nbarchive.dk/

Research Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University https://cas.au.dk/en/about-the-school/departments/philosophy-and-history-of-ideas/the-research-programme-at-the-department-of-philosophy-and-the-history-of-ideas/research-groups/research-unit-for-the-history-and-philosophy-of-science-and-technology/

Research Group on History and Philosophy of Science and Science Studies, University of Copenhagen https://www.ind.ku.dk/english/research/hps/

GERMANY
Department for the History of science at the Technical University Berlin/ Fachgebiet Wissenschaftsgeschichte Technische Universität Berlin https://www.philosophie.tu-berlin.de/menue/fachgebiete/wissenschaftsgeschichte/

Department for Physics and its Didactics and History, Europa-Universität Flensburg/
Abteilung für Physik und ihre Didaktik und Geschichte
https://www.uni-flensburg.de/physik/

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science, Bielefeld University, https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/einrichtungen/i2sos/index.xml

Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/bereiche-und-lehrstuehle/wissenschaftsgeschichte

Section for the History of Science and Technology at the University of Stuttgart/ Abteilung für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, Historisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart (GNT)

GREECE
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian university of Athens / Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης
http://en.phs.uoa.gr/graduate-studies.html

History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science and Technology (HPDST), Program of the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/inr/structure/section_a3_en.html

HUNGARY
BUTE Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Technical University Budapest/
http://filozofia.bme.hu/ensite/

ITALY
International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS) at the University of Bologna/ Centro Internazionale per la Storia delle Università e della Scienza dell’Università di Bologna https://centri.unibo.it/cis/en

NORWAY
The Museum of University History, University of Oslo (MUV) https://www.muv.uio.no/english/

PORTUGAL
Department of Applied Social Sciences, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon/ Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculty/departaments/department-applied-social-sciences

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon/ História e Filosofia das Ciências, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (DFHC)
https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/en/history-and-philosophy-sciences-0

SPAIN
Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona/ Institut d’Història de la Ciència, Universitàt Autonoma de Barcelona (IHC) https://www.uab.cat/web/institut-1345831797692.html

SWEDEN
Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm https://www.kth.se/en/abe/inst/philhist/historia

THE NETHERLANDS
Master Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Utrecht University, https://www.uu.nl/masters/en/history-and-philosophy-science

Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences, University of Amsterdam https://vossius.uva.nl/?cb

UK
Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-history-philosophy-science

Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen (CHPSTM) https://www.abdn.ac.uk/chpstm/

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester (CHSTM) http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM), King’s College London, https://www.kingschostm.com/

Centre for the Study of Health, Science, and Environment, University of Kent, https://research.kent.ac.uk/health-science-environment/
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/

EGENIS, The Centre for the Study of Life Science, University of Exeter https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/research/sts/egenis/

Graduate Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Department of Philosophy, Durham University https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/taught/taughtscimed/

History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group, University of Edinburgh https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/history/research/research-groups/hsmt

History of Science research cluster at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), University College London (UCL) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/research/history-science

Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of Oxford https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-science-medicine-and-technology

Postgraduate Program in History of Medicine, Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/degrees/history-of-medicine-ma/#profile

Postgraduate Program in Philosophy and History of Science, University of Bristol
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/2021/arts/ma-phil-history-science/

Science, Technology, Environment, Medicine (STEM), Department of History, University of York, https://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/stem/

History of science groups in scientific institutions

INTERNATIONAL
History of Physics Group of the European Physical Society http://www.ehphysg.eu/

Working Party on History of Chemistry of the European Chemical Society
https://www.euchems.eu/divisions/history-of-chemistry-2/

GERMANY
Group of the History of Physics of the German Physical Society/ Fachverband Geschichte der Physik, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachlich/ohne-sektion/fvgp

UK
Historical Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry History of Science Society/ https://www.rsc.org/membership-and-community/connect-with-others/through-interests/interest-groups/historical/

History of Physics Group of the Institute of Physics https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/history-physics-group#gref