Points Critical: Russia, Ireland, and Science at the Boundary

Abstract

This essay compares the way in which Russia and Ireland have defined themselves since the mid‐nineteenth century as scientific nations (or not) by following the careers of D. I. Mendeleev (1834–1907) and Thomas Andrews (1813–85), both of whom were involved in the discovery of the “critical point” boundary between liquids and gases. Mendeleev and Andrews deployed their critical‐point research in a similar fashion to integrate science into the national identity for their respective countries, a strategy that proved far more successful for Mendeleev than for Andrews.

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