Siegmund-Schultze, R. et al. (eds.): Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Mat. Nat. (DNVAMN) 1 Until recent decades, historians of science and technology have tended to focus on the great innovations that took place at the great centres of science, typically in various Central European or North American countries. Historiographical and sociological reflections on science and technology in the Scandinavian countries have been scarce. Nevertheless, peripheral communities such as