Vera Keller Associate Professor of History

University of Oregon

Articles by: Vera Keller Associate Professor of History

Galileo Galilei looks at the heavens through a telescope around 1620.

Before Nobel Prizes: Gifts Reigned as Early Science’s Currency

By Vera Keller Associate Professor of History published

People have always known science would advance faster with various incentives and rewards. As modern experimental science took off, these took the form of gifts and favors to and from wealthy elites.