Beyond Light

Falk Müller studied physics at the University of Oldenburg. He finished his doctoral degree in 2003 with a thesis on the history of gas discharge research in the 19th century. From 2004 to 2010, he served as Assistant Professor in the History of Science Group at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. From 2010 to 2013, he was Research Director at the Humanities Research Center at Goethe University. Afterwards he was head of the research group "Knowledge in Interstices" at the Collaborative Research Center "Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes" funded by the German Research Foundation. Currently, he is teaching history of science at Goethe University and is responsible for the division of research promotion at Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst. Previous publications: Jenseits des Lichts. Siemens, AEG und die Anfänge der Elektronenmikroskopie in Deutschland. Göttingen 2021. Gasentladungsforschung im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin/Diepholz 2004. Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics. Annette Imhausen, Moritz Epple, and Falk Müller (eds.). Frankfurt 2020.

• Between University and Industrial Laboratory.- Resource Management at Siemens.- The Beginnings of Electron Microscopy at Siemens.- The Institutional Order of Electron Microscopy.- The Symbolic Order of the Electron Microscope.- The Electron Microscope Goes to War.- Orientation in a New World.- Reconstruction on the Open Sea Continues for Now.- Visiting a ‘Diverse Community’.